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Louisiana has banned the sale and use of eight compounds marketed as synthetic marijuana to stem an increase in the use of the drugs that have sent scores of people to hospitals with dangerous reactions to toxins, officials said on Thursday.
A Long Island school district says it's fired a bus driver who allegedly bullied and assaulted children in his charge.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A Florida man accused of killing his parents and then throwing a party with their bodies still inside their house was ordered Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A gym in Albuquerque refused to let a Muslim woman wear her religious head covering when she tried to work out, according to a new lawsuit against the company.
Dennis Murphy reports on a story about a small-town murder brewed in cyber-space.
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Authorities are investigating the death of an 18-year-old Penn State student who last week jumped from a rooftop, a suicide the young man's father blames on fraternity hazing practices his son was asked to inflict on fellow students.
Banners for the 2014 Boston Marathon were unveiled Thursday, as the city whose motto became "Boston Strong" after last year's tragedy prepares for this year's race.
For many, this has been the most brutal winter in recent memory. New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and Boston experienced a combined 500 days of freezing temperatures.
It might not be the Beatles or the Nuns on the Bus (aren't those women great?), but there is a pretty important bus touring the country in the next few weeks. The AFL-CIO is a partner in the upcoming launch of the "Give America a Raise" Bus Tour, which starts on March 24 and will make 18 stops in 10 states over two weeks. The tour will end with an April 3 event outside the U.S. Capitol in support of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which would raise the wages of 28 million hardworking Americans.If you think America's working families needs a raise, sign the petition.
A festival of colors, a vet’s overdue award, a family’s frustration, a soldier’s surrender, a takeoff turns into a landing and more.
