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Former Illinois lawmaker Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.He will also face 36 months of probation, 500 hours of community service and continued mental health care.
The California Supreme Court late Wednesday declined to breathe new life into Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative that had stopped same sex marriages in the state.
James Lee DiMaggio, the man who police say kidnapped 16-year old Hannah Anderson and killed her mother and brother, was shot "at least five times," according to an Idaho coroner on Wednesday.
A marijuana-centric festival in Washington state this weekend will have a heavy police presence, but the cops will be a little friendlier than one might expect. Instead of handing out summonses at Hempfest 2013, Seattle police have announced plans to hand out bags of snacks— with a message.
The controversial rodeo clown who on Saturday fired up a crowd at the Missouri State Fair by wearing a mask of President Barack Obama — and encouraging a bull to run him down — now has a standing invitation to perform in Texas, a Republican congressman said Wednesday.
The principal of Columbine High School, who led his school during its darkest day 14 years ago, announced this week that he is retiring in 2014. And he said on Wednesday that a pastor's advice got him through the survivor's guilt he felt for living through the April 20, 1999, attack.
Private Bradley Manning, convicted of handing state secrets to WikiLeaks, on Wednesday told the sentencing part of his court martial that he was sorry for his actions and for hurting the United States."I'm sorry I hurt people. I'm sorry that I hurt the United States," he said.
Pfc. Bradley Manning showed signs of behavioral disorders that got worse when he felt stress, and during deployment in Iraq he was considering whether to live as a woman, a military psychiatrist testified Wednesday.The psychiatrist, Army Cmdr.
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” stars Teresa and Joe Giudice pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal financial fraud charges — and his lawyer said the legal crisis won't drive a wedge between the couple.Outside the federal courthouse in Newark, N.J.
Workers at Guitar Center’s flagship Chicago store voted last week to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Earlier this summer workers at the Manhattan Guitar Center voted overwhelmingly to join the RWDSU. RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said the Chicago vote "proves that retail workers are ready and willing to stand up and demand change."
