If you're feeling lucky and are a Mega Millions ticket holder, then get ready for the Tuesday, July 8, lottery jackpot drawing, which has risen to $25 million.
On Monday Mayor Eric Garcetti and Chief Charlie Beck announced that the Los Angeles Police Department will no long adhere to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's requests to detain those suspected of being eligible for deportation.
Texas business Dynamic Travel Cruises and its owner Steve Cosgrove are holding a toy drive to benefit the undocumented and unaccompanied children being held by Border Patrol in the state.
The League of the United Latin American Citizens joined forces with Tyson Foods on Monday and donated 30,000 pounds of chicken to Food Bank for New York City, a day ahead of LULAC's national convention.
President Obama requested authority to deport more undocumented immigrant children last week, and immigrant rights groups are fighting back against the pending authorization.
Good news for weed smokers in Washington state: Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, a select group of pot shops selling cannabis for recreational use will be allowed to open their doors to the public.
Village Voice workers, members of UAW-Local 2110, announced in a statement released Sunday, they've ratified a new contact with Voice Media Group, averting a strike at the legendary news organization.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, 50-year-old real estate professional Steven Robles was attacked by a shark at Southern California's Manhattan Beach and lived to tell about it.
More than 80 shot, at least 14 dead. A long Fourth of July weekend led to an outbreak of shootings and violence in Chicago. At least 82 were shot and at least 14 are dead after gunfire shook up the city, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Scientists are studying the effects of climate change on a tropical forest, and have selected one of few United States tropical rain forests to undertake the work - El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico.
Eleven New York Public School students filed a class action lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State Thursday, claiming teacher tenure laws violated their State constitutional rights to a "sound basic education."
Three fuselages ended up in the Clark Fork River in Montana following the derailment. Few planes can operate on water, and the Boeing 737 is not one of them.
Gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist says that U.S. should end the trade embargo with Cuba. Nearly 55 years have passed since the U. S. imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, and rarely since then have any U.
As the list of mass shootings in the U.S. continues to build and both sides of the gun debate spread their messages, some states are considering new legislation to prevent additional shootings.
Boaters leaving celebratory Fourth of July fireworks off the coast of Miami collided, killing four people and injuring a dozen others, according to police.
Woman was acting strangely in convenience store, worker calls police. A gas station employee in Arizona earlier this week helped police catch a woman who allegedly kidnapped her granddaughter, according to a report from ABC news.
Business group has submitted petition, public vote to repeal could follow. A Seattle business group has taken a big step toward the possible repeal of Seattle's recently approved $15 minimum wage, according to a report from Reuters.
