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A Canadian man who visited San Diego was charged with rape by intoxication by the district attorney’s office. Whistler resident Nelson Drake, 39, was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on Feb. 20 after an arrest warrant for $1 million was placed the day before.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A small plane crashed near a mountain checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, killing all three people aboard, state officials said on Tuesday.
The nation's capital and its suburbs face what could be their heaviest snowfall in two years on Wednesday, as a fierce storm headed east after blanketing the Midwest, snarling traffic and causing hundreds of flight cancellations.
President Obama has called on Congress to give minimum-wage workers a raise, but conservatives argue the move would hurt both the economy and low-wage earners.
Plenty of investors are celebrating as the Dow Industrial Average set a record on Tuesday … but some Americans aren’t invited to the party.
An 83-year-old Massachusetts man on Tuesday was sentenced to pay back millions in penalties and back taxes for spending years hiding his wealth from the Internal Revenue System in Swiss Bank Accounts.
George Zimmerman won’t seek criminal immunity next month under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin and instead will likely let a jury decide his fate.
It cost an estimated $5.3 billion in the past decade to incarcerate Chicago citizens on felony offenses — and a big chunk was spent on people from one neighborhood, an analysis shows.
An elderly woman who died after a nurse at her elder home refused to provide CPR had chosen to live in a facility without medical staff and wanted to pass away without life-prolonging intervention, her family said Tuesday.
Across Florida this time of year, it's the start of what's unofficially considered the "sinkhole season," State Geologist Jonathan Arthur said. It coincides with the beginning of the state's rainy season and usually lasts until the end of summer.
