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CLAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Shark is in the water - and he will be for a while. Long-distance swimmer Jim Dreyer, who calls himself "The Shark," jumped into Lake St.

The baseball universe is waiting for A-Rod’s reckoning — probably a suspension for the rest of the 2013 season and all of 2014,  according to NBC Sports, with the possibility that he could play through an appeal.

The trial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of perpetrating one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, is slated to begin Tuesday — nearly four years after 13 unarmed soldiers were gunned down and 32 others wounded at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

Almost two years after a suicidal man loosed about 50 lions, tigers and bears on the Ohio countryside, the rest of his estate — including vintage cars and farm animals — is set to be auctioned off next week.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) has moved the United States Postal Service (USPS) one big step closer to extinction this weekend by introducing his new Postal Reform Act (S. 1486). Mr. Carper, a longtime ally of wealthy corporate interests, intends to drive the stake into the heart of the world's best Postal Service. His bill, on many levels, closely resembles Rep. Darrell Issa’s (D-Calif.) H.R. 2748, which passed out of a House committee 10 days ago on a party-line vote with only GOP support.

One of the three women held captive in a Cleveland house for a decade made her first public appearance at a parade — waving and smiling from atop a car in a joyous celebration of her newfound freedom.

Whitey Bulger, the reputed mob boss, was “one of the most vicious, violent and calculating criminals ever to walk the streets of Boston,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday in a closing argument.The prosecutor, Assistant U.S.

California's working families, along with immigrant rights leaders, labor unions, faith organizations, student groups, elected officials and other allies, are announcing a series of major mobilizations throughout the state to rally support for a comprehensive immigration policy with a road map to citizenship. Upset at congressional Republicans' refusal to move forward on immigration policy, Californians have decided to take action instead of sitting idly by while legislation stalls in Washington, D.C.

Like many four year olds, Robert “Bobby” Tufts is set to start preschool this September.But Tufts isn’t just your average toddler. At age three, he was elected mayor of his small tourist town of Dorset, Minn. and on Sunday, the town reelected him for his second term.