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A New York woman used fake hospital records to pose as a Boston Marathon bombing victim with a brain injury and fraudulently collected nearly half a million dollars from the fund for victims, Massachusetts authorities said Friday. Audrea Gause, 26, of Troy, N.Y.
House Democrats this week released the When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families. The overall goal of this economic agenda is to address the realities, disparities and opportunities for working women and families through effective policy and legislation.
A call placed to Houston police Friday morning expressing concern that people were being held against their will resulted in the discovery of eight people in a house, one of whom said he had been inside the home as long as 10 years.
The Pulitzer Center is hosting a discussion next Monday by Journalist Stephen Franklin on his project Death Stalks Colombia's Unions.Space is limited, so RSVP to rsvp@pulitzercenter.org—specify in subject line: July 22 event.
IDYLLWILD, Calif. -- Longtime resident Dave Jones was back in his Southern California home a day after evacuating, but remained ready to leave as a huge wildfire fire threatened to top a ridge near his mostly empty mountain town.
A Milwaukee man knew exactly what he was doing when he accused his teenage neighbor of burglary and fired a bullet into the boy's chest, a jury decided Friday, in a verdict that essentially guarantees 76-year-old John Henry Spooner will die behind bars.
One of just four existing copies of the original Schindler’s List is being auctioned off on eBay, with a opening asking price of $3 million.The document, dated from 1945, is the only original list to go on the open market.
One of three teenage victims from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was killed by a fire truck that responded to the scene – and not from the impact of the plane crash, officials said Friday.
The Detroit Free Press just reported an Ingham County judge threw a wrench in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's (R) Detroit bankruptcy filing, saying it violates the Michigan Constitution and must be withdrawn.
DNA has been matched from the remains of Albert DeSalvo, the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, to crime scene evidence from the murder of a woman believed to be his last victim in 1964.DeSalvo's body was excavated from a Peabody, Mass.
