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The chase, shootout, standoff and inferno that ended the search for suspect ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner began when a mother-daughter team startled the suspect in his mountainside hideout, a source close to the women told NBC News.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that for the first time the Pentagon is creating a medal that can be awarded to troops who have a direct impact on combat operations, but do it from afar.
Eighty percent of veterans who attempted suicide and survived had received mental health care one month earlier from the Department of Veterans Affairs, underscoring the potential peril of 50-day average wait times they face in trying to access VA treatment, a suicide expert told a Congressional committee Wednesday.
“I was very shocked when they said to me that he walked by me, because he didn’t,” the congressman told NBC News.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued two new studies of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) today detailing what the lead author of one calls “an ongoing, severe, STI epidemic.
A former student candidate at California State University San Marcos has been arrested after being accused of attempting to manipulate votes, according to officials.
One of the busiest interstates in the U.S. remained closed Wednesday, hours after a semi-trailer transporting French vanilla coffee creamer overturned in Phoenix, coating more than 150 feet of the highway with a white slick of delicious-smelling traffic hazard.
The Chemistry Department at Villanova University in Pennsylvania is reviewing all protocols and procedures after an lab experiment prompted evacuation of the science building and sent nearly 30 people to the hospital on Tuesday — some with nose bleeds and many others who were having trouble breathing.
The brother of Josh Powell, the Utah man who killed his two young sons and himself in an intentionally set house fire about a year ago, has committed suicide, according to police.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour and indexing the wage to increases in the cost of living.
