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A raging California wildfire has grown to 200 square miles, threatening the San Francisco power grid, spreading into Yosemite National Park, and prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew him as a friend and eloquent strategist. Filmmaker Bonnie Boswell knew him as “Uncle Whitney.”At 12, Boswell sat in awe as she watched her uncle, Whitney Young Jr., on television as he spoke at the podium during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
Today, as thousands of people come to Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we wanted to share a powerful quote from King on the dignity of work:So often we overlook the worth and significance of those who are not in professional jobs. Of those who are not in the so-called 'big jobs.' But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
An out-of-control wildfire leapt across the boundaries of Yosemite National Park on Friday as more than 2,100 fire personnel worked to contain the Northern California blaze, the latest of the major wildfires to sweep the country in recent weeks.
An 8-year-old boy intentionally shot and killed an 87-year-old woman at their home in Slaughter, La., authorities said Friday.Marie Smothers was described only as the boy's "current caregiver.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — An attorney says seven young men he represents have finalized deals with Penn State over claims of abuse by the school's former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
“Thugs,” “murderers” and “fake gangsters” -- those are some of the words law enforcement officials are using to describe the three juveniles allegedly involved in the Aug. 16 shooting death of Australian college athlete Christopher Lane in Duncan, Okla.
A small town in Georgia says it will not enforce a controversial law that requires the head of nearly every household to own a gun and ammunition. The town of Nelson, Ga., population 1,300, passed the ordinance in April.
A 16-year-old male was charged as an adult with first-degree murder Friday and a second was being sought in the robbery and death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran who was brutally beaten to death in Spokane, Wash.
FORT HOOD, Texas — Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who admitted to the 2009 shooting rampage at the military base here, was convicted Friday of 13 counts of premeditated murder — and could become the first American soldier to be put to death in half a century.
