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Three people were injured, including a pregnant woman, early Saturday morning after a gunman opened fire into an SUV that broke down along a Chicago expressway, officials said.Illinois State Police said a 2008 Buick SUV broke down just before 1:30 a.m.
In early December, Eric Gulan strode across a drop cloth on the carpeted office floor of AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, overlooking Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, D.C.He and three of his fellow union glaziers hammered out caulking to remove the room’s old windows—original quarter-inch panes from the building’s 1953 construction. Another three glaziers drilled through the solid steel of the window frames to prepare for the installation of new aluminum frames and a set of energy-efficient double-paned windows.
"Octomom" Nadya Suleman, the California single mother of 14 children including octuplets, pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles on Friday to charges that she lied about her income when filing for public assistance.
An Antioch, Ill., couple who lost their teenage daughter in a car crash last year feels as if they were victimized again after receiving a letter from OfficeMax Thursday.The envelope was addressed to Mike Seay, but the second line read "Daughter Killed in Car Crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary information from its investigation into the recent landing of a Southwest Airlines 737 at the wrong airport in Missouri.The pilots indicated in interviews the bright lights and runway orientation led to confusion on Jan.
A shortage of a drug commonly used in executions has prompted lawmakers in at least two states to call for the return of firing squads.Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin, a Republican representing Harrisonville, introduced legislation Friday (.
A Mississippi man accused of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a senator and a judge pleaded guilty on Friday afternoon at a change-of-plea hearing in Oxford, Miss.James Everett Dutschke, 41, from Tupelo, Miss.
Taking on a major new privacy issue, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider how much legal authority police must have before rummaging through the cell phones of people they arrest.Federal courts are split on the issue.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office, 17 of his allies and two other organizations have been ordered to turn over documents to a special committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal, state lawmakers revealed Friday.
The company whose leaking tank polluted the Elk River in West Virginia and left 300,000 people without water for days, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday.
