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Twelve people were injured when a vehicle drove into pedestrians in Venice, Calif., according to tweets from the Los Angeles Fire Department.Two of those injured were in critical condition and two were in serious condition, the fire department said. Ten people required hospitalization.
Newsweek is being sold to an online news company, less than a year after it ended publication of its weekly print magazine and went all digital.IBT Media, which publishes the International Business Times, said it was acquiring Newsweek from IAC, run by Barry Diller. Terms weren’t disclosed.
BREEZY POINT, N.Y. -- Half of their neighbors are gone, piles of sand occupy lots where homes once stood, and they’re living out of one room of the two-story house they’ve owned for 10 years. This is one couple’s life nine months after Hurricane Sandy.
A pilot and two passengers were confirmed dead after a small plane went down in a South Carolina subdivision on Saturday, police said.The small private plane crashed near the entrance of the Wood Creek subdivision in Conway, S.C.
Vivienne Harr has already been garnering headlines for selling lemonade for 365 consecutive days – including on Day 173 at New York City’s Times Square. She's raised exactly $101,320 that she donated to a nonprofit dedicated to ending child slavery.Now, the 9-year-old girl Fairfax, Calif.
Police have arrested the man that attempted to break into musician Kid Rock’s Detroit-area home.The 43 year-old-man was seen on security cameras Wednesday afternoon, ramming the gate to the rockstar’s home in his white van.
A spectator lost his leg while watching the implosion of a PG&E plant Saturday morning. Two others were left injured.The 44 year old Bakersfield, Calif.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana prosecutors have dropped murder and attempted feticide charges against an Indianapolis woman who tried to commit suicide by eating rat poison near the end of her pregnancy.Bei Bei Shuai, 36, was charged in March 2011 with knowingly killing a viable fetus, prosecutors said.
“Being in a union is more than just looking out for us, we have to look out for the communities not only where we work, but where we live,” says Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) General President Kenneth Rigmaiden.Last fall, IUPAT kicked off a campaign that would donate a dollar for each new “Like” for its foundation’s Facebook page. IUPAT’s foundation, Painters and Allied Trades for Children’s Hope (PATCH), presented a check for $10,000 to United Cerebral Palsy earlier this year.This story originally appeared on the AFL-CIO's @Work website. Read more stories about community here.
LOS ANGELES -- College filmmakers were using fake guns to shoot a robbery scene at a suburban Los Angeles coffee shop when eight police officers showed up with guns drawn and no idea it was just a movie."Drop the gun! Drop it! Drop it!" one officer yells on an audio recording police were carrying.
