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The retired police captain charged with fatally shooting a man in a Florida movie theater in a dispute over texting exclaimed afterward, "I can't believe what I've done," a witness testified at a bail hearing Wednesday.
As storm after ferocious storm wallops the country this winter, many cities have been forced to ration resources amid a shortage of the road salt used to melt snow.
A woman accused of shooting an employee at a Veterans Affairs office in Vancouver, Wash., and injuring another is a former employee at the agency, authorities said.Deborah A. Lennon, 46, walked into the fourth floor office of 45-year-old Allen Bricker about 2 p.m.
MILWAUKEE — Three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of a concert violinist's multimillion-dollar Stradivarius, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office said on Wednesday.
New York’s progressive new mayor is shunning the St. Patrick's Day Parade but embracing Eid al-Fitr — Bill De Blasio's office announced this week that public school will be soon shuttered for Muslim holidays and the Chinese New Year.
Residents of a small Alaska city can once again come and go as they please after the reopening of the sole highway in and out of the town.
On Tuesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) to call on the Senate to pass Reed's bill that would reinstate extended unemployment insurance benefits for three months, retroactive to December. In the 38 days since the benefits lapsed for workers who have been unable to find jobs for more than six months, 1.7 million job seekers are without much-needed payments. A preliminary vote is set on the Reed bill Thursday, with Republicans expected to continue filibustering the benefit extension. If the bill fails, more than 3 million additional Americans are expected to lose benefits by the year's end.
Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize and "traveling" bible are the subject of the latest dispute between the warring children of the late civil rights icon.
