Puerto Rico is currently $168 billion in debt and bankrupt Earlier this week Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia published a front-page story reporting the island is bankrupt.
An upgrade to New York's 911 emergency communications system is 10 years behind schedule and almost $900 million over budget, the city's official watchdog organization has determined. The Department of Investigation found that the administration of Michael Bloomberg for years mismanaged the overhaul.
The University of South Carolina's busy downtown Columbia campus was the scene of an apparent murder-suicide on Thursday, and two individuals were reported dead.
New York State this week officially implemented tougher penalties to combat fraudulent immigration assistance services in an effort to protect the state's immigrant population.
If you're feeling lucky, then you may want to purchase a ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which currently stands at $49 million. The drawing will take place on Friday, Feb. 6, at 11 p.m. EST.
The mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer while carrying a toy gun in November, said that she is still in utter disbelief that her son was a victim of a police shooting.
Before widespread vaccinations, measles caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths annually. And in modern times, the resurgence of the highly contagious virus greatly impacted Latino and low-income communities, particularly the infants in those populations.
An officer with the New York Police Department has been indicted on misdemeanor assault charges for kicking a subdued man during an arrest last summer.
An American Airlines flight attendant faces grand larceny charges after being accused of stealing thousands of donations in donations earmarked for needy and destitute children through a UNICEF "Change for Good" program.
A New Jersey man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen firearms after prosecutors accused him of scheming to sell several guns believed to have belonged to the family of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
A small liberal-arts college in western Vermont has lost a 4-foot-long Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor. Castleton State College asked students and staff to keep an eye out for the snake, which apparently escaped from its cage at the school's zoology lab.
Lumia could get Qualcomm processor that Samsung is dropping Microsoft's next set of Lumia smartphones could be more powerful than Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones due to the processors in each phone.
With the 2015 tax season being the first year for people to report their health insurance information on their tax returns, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week announced efforts to ease the process.
In a Manhattan federal courthouse Wednesday, Ross Ulbricht was convicted of charges stemming from his role in founding and operating the Silk Road website that served as a black market version of eBay for worldwide drug dealers and users.
Lawyers in the Jodi Arias death penalty sentencing retrial wrapped up another intense day in court after a psychologist described the convicted boyfriend killer as a "stalker."
The North Korean propaganda apparatus is not known for understatements, but Pyongyang on Wednesday upped the ante even by its own standards when it threatened the United States with the "most disastrous final doom on its mainland," warning that "the time of the nightmare" was near."
