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Engaged for two years, Carrie and Stacey Carkhuff didn't waste any time when a federal judge green-lighted gay marriage in Utah on Dec. 20.
One of the former high school football players convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party in 2012 — a case that continues to roil the city of Steubenville, Ohio — has been released from juvenile prison, his family said.
ATLANTA — A former aerospace executive who slapped a crying toddler on an airplane and used a racial slur against the child, who is black, received an eight-month prison sentence on Monday for an incident his attorney blamed on his alcoholism.
JetBlue Airways, recovering from heavy weekend delays and getting ready for a deep freeze in the Northeast, took the extraordinary step Monday of grounding flights for 17 hours at four of the busiest airports in the country.
If you want to escape the deep freeze, good luck. And aloha.The churning mass of record-shattering, life-threatening polar air pushing across the country is so broad that every state except Hawaii is expected to face freezing temperatures by Tuesday.
At the end of 2013, an emergency unemployment compensation extension program that started in 2008 under President George W. Bush expired, meaning 1.3 million jobless workers lost benefits that helped them house and feed their families. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have made it clear they want the program to go on, but House Republicans are refusing to act. Now Harvard economist Lawrence Katz says the "fiscally irresponsible" decision is costing America's economy at least $600 million a week.
The U.S. Supreme Court has put a temporary stop to gay marriages in Utah while the state appeals.The federal judge who green-lighted same-sex marriage in the heavily Mormon state last month — allowing some 900 gay couples to tie the knot — had refused to issue a stay.
At least one person died when a small jet crashed while attempting to land Sunday afternoon at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in tony Aspen, Colo. — and at least two celebrities witnessed the fireball.The aircraft burst into flames upon landing after 12:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m.
It’s the buzzword this winter season: polar vortex.The weather phenomenon plunged a large swath of the United States — mainly the Midwest and Plains — into a deep freeze Monday, with dangerously cold and potentially record-breaking temperatures.But thankfully, it isn't expected to linger for long.
Turns out, it wasn't an alien creation.We now know the source of the mysterious crop circle that turned up in the small town of Chualar, about two hours south of San Francisco. And it turns out a lot of the speculation about what the viral photo might be was correct.
