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Two of the 12 soldiers who were hurt when lightning struck near them during a training exercise in Colorado were in the hospital Friday.Officials at Fort Carson said Thursday that one soldier is in serious condition and the other is in stable condition.
DALLAS — Accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan declared his wish to renounce his U.S. citizenship and military oath in several pages of documents furnished to Fox News on Thursday, days before his court-martial is slated to begin. Hasan, an American-born Muslim and U.S.
Ariel Castro’s rambling 20-minute statement in court Thursday, in which repeatedly said “I am not a monster,” showed signs of a criminal sociopath who’s narcissism doesn’t allow him to express remorse, experts say.
If Ariel Castro’s hell is just beginning, as one of his victims told him, it’s going to be an especially lonely kind of damnation.
The National Park Service said the inscription would be fully erased and replaced with grooved lines matching the rest of the MLK Memorial. Richard Jordan of NBC Washington reports.A paraphrased quotation that critics said made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
A controversial program to arm teachers and school staff members in an Arkansas town was shot down Thursday as illegal under state law.
One private contractor was killed and a second was injured Thursday when a tree fell as they assisted firefighters battling a blaze in Oregon, authorities said.Jim Hammick, 60, of Redmond, Ore., died at the scene in Deschutes National Forest and Norman Crawford, 45, of Sisters, Ore.
An Illinois businessman outraged by a court order that he return more than $500,000 in insurance money related to a 2001 wreck that killed his teenage son wanted to pay the money back in pennies in protest, only to recognize that was unfeasible.
A Manhattan ad executive who went out to smoke on the balcony of her 17th-floor apartment while on a first date plunged to her death early Thursday morning when she sat on the railing and it gave way, according to police sources.
AFL-CIO Health and Safety Director Peg Seminario told a Senate committee Thursday that the current system for developing and issuing worker and workplace safety rules is:A broken and dysfunctional system which is failing to protect workers and costing workers’ lives.
