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One of Utah's biggest school systems apologized Thursday and told angry parents it was investigating why dozens of elementary school children had their lunches seized and thrown away when they didn't have enough money in their accounts.
HOUSTON — Two Houston employment agencies that allegedly recruited immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to be cheap labor for restaurants in at least seven states were shut down Thursday after a series of arrests, federal authorities said.
The nephew of Ariel Castro has been charged with 22 counts related to child pornography, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office said Thursday.
A Utah prosecutor is set to file charges in the case of two Boy Scout leaders who toppled an ancient boulder from a Jurassic-era rock formation during a field trip to a state park last year — and recorded it.
The Justice Department has notified a federal judge that it intends to seek the death penalty if a jury convicts Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for last April’s bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon.
Seven months after 68 senators overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan immigration bill, House Republicans respond with a flimsy document that only serves to underscore the callous attitude Republicans have toward our nation's immigrants.
A mother and eight children were killed when a fire tore through a Kentucky home on Thursday morning, authorities said.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday ordered a review of the state’s slow response to a snowstorm that left people stranded for more than 24 hours on gridlocked interstates, and his top emergency management official said flatly: “I got this one wrong.
If you listen to extremist conservatives, they'll tell you, almost without exception, that "right to work" for less laws are an essential tool for making the lives of working people better. If you are more interested in actual facts, you'll find that statement to be untrue. Politico took a look at 14 measures of quality of life and combined them into a ranking of the best and worst states to live in. As we were bound to learn, Economic Policy Institute's (EPI's) Ross Eisenbrey points out "right to work" states fared much worse than states where the rights of working families are actually protected.
