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One person was killed and another hospitalized after the box truck they were in crashed and was left dangling off the side of a South Florida highway overpass early Wednesday.
As Congress gets ready for “Round 2” of the fiscal showdown and the March deadline before automatic, across–the-board sequestration budget cuts kick in, lawmakers are attempting to craft a package to meet the deficit reduction targets required to stop the cuts. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is set to offer a plan that would be an important part of that package and start Wall Street down the path of paying its fair share.
From the time she was 8, Libby Phelps Alvarez traveled the country protesting funerals. Like other members of the family-based Westboro Baptist Church, she often crashed the funerals of fallen soldiers.
Libby Phelps Alvarez was born into the Westboro Baptist Church, which her grandfather founded in Topeka, Kansas, and grew up protesting funerals around the country until her escape four years ago. She talks to NBC’s Andrea Canning about leaving the church for a new life. (TODAY)
In the wake of the Newtown shooting, the high-intensity drill is intended to help Stanislaus County, Calif., police prepare for a school emergency, but some are wondering if the training video, filled with fake blood, goes too far. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports. (TODAY)
It's been debated ad nauseum for months and months, but on Wednesday the United States Postal Service finally will announce it is not going to deliver mail on Saturdays anymore.
Los Angeles police are combing through some 12,000 pages of priest abuse records released last week by the city's Catholic archdiocese to determine whether to open any new criminal investigations, authorities said Tuesday.
An on-duty mailman was arrested Monday after allegedly choking an 11-year-old girl who was supposedly taunting him after the letter carrier inadvertently walked into the women's bathroom at a park, U.S. Postal Service and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
A winter storm heading for the Northeast could bring major snowfall to upstate New York and New England on Friday and into the weekend – but forecasts are divided on its potential impact.
Prayers have been said, petitions handed in, phone calls placed and pleas for a delay made, all over a decision on an issue that has rocked one of America’s most popular youth organizations: whether or not gays can join the Boy Scouts.
