Many hope Gitmo detainees will help town
People who live in the northern Illinois town of Thomson are happy that Guantanamo Bay detainees could soon be transferred to a correctional facility there.
A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville also has been charged with wounding three others, police said.
The popularity of golfer Tiger Woods has plummeted in the weeks since his now-infamous car crash and infidelity admission, according to a new poll.
It’s going to be a rough weekend for travelers in the mid-Atlantic. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled in advance of the winter storm expected to wallop the region, and heavy snow and white-out conditions predicted for some areas will make roads dangerous.
Much of the South is bracing for a second round of winter weather as forecasters warned a second storm would bring more snow, after a rare snowfall on Friday.
Legislatures in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico enacted more than 40,000 laws in 2009, many of which take effect January 1. The new laws cover a variety of areas.
Six people, including four police officers, were indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
What could be the last autograph signed by President John F. Kennedy was sold recently at an auction linked to assassination of President John F. Kennedy. in Texas.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 36 percent of unemployed people –or 5.4 million — had been without a job for 27 weeks or more in September 2009.
An Ohio man already charged with murder in the deaths of 11 women has been indicted on new charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and felonious assault, a prosecutor announced Thursday.
Google’s new Nexus One mobile phone may be the New Cool Thing, but the family of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick is alleging that the search giant lifted the device’s name straight from an iconic Dick novel without even bothering to pick up one of their fancy new smartphones to ask permission.
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