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A Midwestern city endures a deadly flurry of shootings and responds by putting more cops on the streets.
The jury in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial will be allowed to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter, the judge ruled Thursday.
Sick and tired of hearing and reading news stories about the pressing need to cut your earned Social Security benefits? So are we. Media Matters shed some light on this fatigue by pointing out a whopping 68% of media coverage on Social Security in the first six months of this year focused on cutting, not strengthening benefits.
Check out this great clip from "All In With Chris Hayes" featuring Panera Bread worker Kathleen Von Eitzen. Von Eitzen and her co-workers voted to join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 70 in Battle Creek, Mich., but Panera Bread refused to bargain with them. Even though the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled the company had to negotiate with Von Eitzen and her co-workers, their case is in limbo because of a federal circuit court ruling that President Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB are "invalid."
A vicious blaze that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters and scorched thousands of acres of Arizona wild land has been 100 percent contained, officials said late Wednesday.
A dozen years ago, a 10-year-old girl wrote a message on a scrap of paper, placed it in a ginger-ale bottle and launched it into the waters off Long Island.
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Giants pitcher Chad Gaudin has been charged with lewdness, Las Vegas prosecutors said on Wednesday.
MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Chantal dissipated over the Caribbean on Wednesday, but its remnants threatened to bring heavy rains to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, U.S. forecasters said.
