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A former Moreno Valley Unified School Board member convicted of 23 felonies, including pimping and pandering, was sentenced on Friday to serve more than 14 years in state prison.
It's that time of year, when most Americans lose an hour's sleep setting their clocks ahead. Get the answers to questions about the time switch and sleep.
Chuck Hagel arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday for his first trip there as the secretary of defense, saying, "We're still at war.
In an excerpt from his upcoming book “American Story,” NBC’s award-winning Bob Dotson visits Florence Thompson, a widowed migrant worker and mother whose stark photograph became an iconic image of Great Depression. She raised 10 children while working day and night, and tells Dotson she “never lost hope.”
Eight school buses were stolen overnight and cut apart for scrap on Chicago's South Side, police said.
Hundreds of activists representing working families rallied in Chicago on Thursday in support of commonsense immigration reform with a path to citizenship. The event was held by the Chicago Federation of Labor, Instituto del Progreso Latino and the AFL-CIO.
The judge in last year's Colorado theater shootings, in which 12 people died and 70 others were wounded, rejected the defense's request Friday that he strike down the state's law on insanity pleas.
Earl and Anne Favre are working with Occupy Chattanooga to save their home from Freddie Mac, a corporation sponsored by you and me. You can support them by signing on to their petition here.This concerns the end of my life as I know it. I was happy and fairly financially secure. Then Katrina happened on Aug. 29, 2005. I lost everything except the clothes on my back, the sandals on my feet and my three dogs, with whom I spent six hours on a roof waiting to be rescued.
Prosecutors who charged a mother with murdering her infant because she ate rat poison while pregnant have asked the Indiana judge trying the case to take steps that critics say could stifle any sympathy jurors might have for the woman.
A coalition of immigrant rights activists, including the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the AFL-CIO and AFSCME, submitted a letter to Congress and President Obama asking that lifelines and public services that meet basic human needs be included in commonsense immigration reform.
