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An inmate who escaped from an Iowa prison was shot dead by 71-year-old homeowner on Tuesday after a four-hour hostage ordeal, according to local media reports.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Wildfires burning in Oregon, Idaho and Montana are taxing national firefighting resources and helping to push spending past $1 billion for the year.
The prosecution rested Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who could face the death penalty if he's convicted in a shooting spree that killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
San Diego’s scandal-plagued mayor entered a second day of negotiations on Tuesday concerning a sexually harassment accusations brought against him, while calls for his resignation mounted.
A man walked into an Atlanta-area elementary school, ordered a school employee to call a local TV station and fired multiple shots at police Tuesday — but investigators still don't know why. No one was injured in the shooting at Ronald E.
The prosecution rested Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who could face the death penalty if he's convicted in a shooting spree that killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
This weekend's memorial service for kidnapped teen Hannah Anderson's mother and brother will be open to the public, it was announced Tuesday — and the church is bracing for an overflow crowd.Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church in Santee, Calif.
A Superior Court judge ruled on Monday against Anchorage, Alaska, Mayor Dan Sullivan who sought to block a proposed referendum to repeal an anti-working families law he signed in March. A coalition of municipal unions and their allies filed the paperwork to launch a petition drive to get the repeal on the ballot, but the city rejected the application.The unions sued and the court found the city was wrong to conclude that the matter was ineligible for a referendum.The coalition announced on Twitter that they will begin gathering petitions on Thursday.
Walmart’s going to feel some of that infamous Washington, D.C., summer time swamp heat Thursday when 10 recently fired Walmart workers will be joined by community, faith and union supporters outside the low-wage retail giant’s D.C. federal lobbying offices.The noon demonstration is the kick-off of a campaign by Walmart workers to end what they say is Walmart’s retaliation against workers for exercising their rights and freedoms, including the right to join unions,
Residents of Old Saybrook, Conn., received quite a shock after hearing the area was under a terrorist attack over the town's public address system on Sunday afternoon.
