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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin re-emerged into the national spotlight to level a blistering rebuke of both President Barack Obama and the Republican establishment, calling upon a friendly conservative audience to "stop preaching to the choir."
A tour bus carrying a women’s college lacrosse team careened off a Pennsylvania freeway on Saturday, killing the driver and a passenger and injuring more than a dozen others, some of them seriously, authorities said.
The wildfire season that Coloradans have been nervously awaiting arrived in a wind-whipped frenzy in the foothills near Fort Collins. The year's first major fire along the populous Front Range was spotted late Friday morning and raced across 750 to 1,000 acres by Friday night.
Evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday for hundreds of Colorado residents forced to flee their homes due to a wind-driven wildfire in a canyon northwest of Denver, as firefighters made progress in containing the blaze, officials said.
A diverse group of unions teamed up in Lafayette, Ind., to lend a helping hand to a local United Way participating organization. Laborers (LIUNA) Local 274, UAW locals 531 and 2317 and United Steelworkers (USW) Local 115 responded when Lafayette Transitional Housing was in need of volunteers on March 12 to help unload and stock its food pantry. The above locals came through with 18 volunteers to help with that project, which consisted of more than 15,000 pounds of food.Check out a slide show of the volunteers, after the jump.
NEW YORK CITY -- A Greyhound bus bound for New York City had to pull over and evacuate Friday because it was infested with roaches that dropped from the ceiling and skittered across seats and the floor, terrorizing riders.
A federal judge on Friday struck down gag orders imposed on recipients of national security letters — the supersecret mechanism by which the FBI can get your private information without a warrant in the name of counterterrorism.
The psychiatry staff at Madigan Army Medical Center was not encouraged to overturn diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder to save the government money, according to investigation documents provided to NBC News.
Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.
Teammates of two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players accused of raping a girl at a party last summer testified on Friday they saw their classmates commit sex acts on the girl during the alcohol-fueled events that night.
