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."
Charlie Sifford, the first black PGA tour member to ever play the links, died Tuesday at age 92. Charlie Sifford, the first black PGA tour member to ever play the links, died Tuesday at age 92.
Today Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, put to rest any doubt that the agency charged with regulating the infrastructure of the Internet plans to do so based on the strongest legal foundation available. It's victory for Net Neutrality advocates, to the chagrin of Internet service providers.
Three Sisters Springs, a wildlife refuge of warm-water springs in Crystal River, Florida, had to close on Monday and for half-a-day on Tuesday after being invaded hundreds of manatees.
Award show will take place March 29 Music's biggest stars will all be in one arena next month at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. The event takes places at the Shrine Auditorium March 29 in Los Angeles, California.
Christiano Ronaldo has stripped down to nearly nothing in a new underwear campaign. The soccer starhas his own underwear line called CR7 and agreed to model for the spring/summer 2015 campaign.
Lawyers representing accused Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have filed a third motion to move his trial outside of Massachusetts on the grounds that he cannot get a fair trial in the state.
Data plans will be reduced by $10 Effective Thursday, Verizon will cut most of its data plan prices by $10, ZDNet reports. Because of recent price reductions and feature changes by competitors AT&T and T-Mobile, Verizon has decided to cut prices on most of its data plans.
