New York City council voted to allocate $6 million to programs concerned with domestic violence. According to police statistics the number of calls made about domestic violence incidents has increased by 17,000
If you're feeling lucky, then you may want to purchase a ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which has risen to a whopping $150 million. The drawing will take place on Friday, Oct. 10, at 11 p.m. EST.
Navajo presidential candidate disqualified for refusing to be tested on fluency of language The Navajo presidential election is in danger of being postponed over a debate of one candidate's fluency.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has put a halt on same-sex marriage licenses while it mulls over whether the state constitution's ban on the gay marriage is legal or not.
The bees attacked the landscapers who had begun working at a private residence. The men were surrounded by the bees as they fled to a neighbors house. The local fire department and exterminators dealt with the bees but one man died from his injuries.
A suburban Pennsylvania mother has been charged with buying heroin and injecting it into her 15-year-old daughter and her daughter's teenage boyfriend.
The New Jersey town's high school football team will not play this season as police investigate allegations of sexual assault within the team during hazing. Sayreville's football players and their parents see the punishment as unfair for those uninvolved.
Heated protests erupted in St. Louis Wednesday night after an off-duty police officer shot and killed an African American teen just miles away from the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in August
A non-partisan government agency released a report Wednesday that shows states which toughened up their voter ID laws saw a decrease in turnout by African-Americans and young voters.
Parents of a black teenager in North Carolina are outraged after police mistook their 18-year-old son for a burglar and pepper-sprayed him inside of their home.
Five U.S. airports to begin Ebola screening The U. S. will begin temperature screening passengers from West African countries at five major airports starting this week in response to the Ebola virus outbreak.
A small wildfire was reported in the early afternoon on Wednesday Oct. 8 in Placer County, Calif. That original fire has now spread into a series of five uncontrollable wildfires that are causing mass chaos and endangering the welfare of the public.
Jury selection in the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial resumed this week as prosecutors began individually questioning prospective jurors in effort to select an impartial panel that will determine whether the convicted boyfriend killer will be executed for the death of Travis Alexander.
A Drug Enforcement Agency agent in New York is being sued by a woman for using her personal information to set up a fake Facebook account in order to nab drug associates and learn incriminating secrets.
Pentagon and Congress debate over tobacco-ban in military A debate over tobacco sales on military bases and ships is taking place between Congress and the Pentagon.
Advocates are calling out Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater for allegedly targeting undocumented immigrants who acquired agricultural jobs with fake IDs, rather than the companies who hired them.
