High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water. Others prepared to evacuate their property.
It was a watershed moment in U.S. history — a violent bookend to the turbulent 1960s — that galvanized campus protests nationwide and forced the temporary shutdown of hundreds of colleges and universities.
A former Boy Scout volunteer has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiding cameras in a bathroom at a Missouri camp.
Mexican authorities said Friday that three bodies were recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend during an apparent camping and surfing trip.
Advocates on Friday turned in more than twice the needed number of signatures to put a proposal to legalize abortion on the Missouri ballot this year.
As the federal government signals a shift in marijuana classification, area Indiana legislators have little faith it will influence the state to take action toward legalizing marijuana in some form. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The proposal, which still has […]
Two men were killed in separate Garfield Park shootings in the early morning hours Saturday, police said. The first shooting happened on the the 3000 block of West Warren Boulevard around midnight. A man, 49, was standing on the street when another man left a white sedan and fired shots. He sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. Another unidentified man was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head on the sidewalk of the 3800 block of West... Читать дальше...
For the third straight year, and fifth time in 10 years, Shepard culinary students won the Moraine Area Career System Regional Culinary Competition April 16 at Moraine Valley Community College.
Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would criminalize sexual relations between school authority figures and students aged 18 to 23.
So what exactly have the Chicago Bears proposed, what else is at stake, and how will this play out? Here are a few highlights.
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
On May 5, 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.
The U.S. expects to have arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month through a new sea route.
An experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot.
Ald. Nicole Lee said Johnson’s team approached her with plans to build the shelter, and said they plan to close the Standard Club migrant shelter downtown ahead of the DNC’s arrival this August.
The Valparaiso chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police is asking Valparaiso City Council President Robert Cotton to step aside from that leadership role because of a comment he made on his Facebook page in the aftermath of a fatal police-involved shooting on April 25.
School Town of Munster officials said Friday Munster Police were investigating a student’s social media post that hinted at a potential threat at Munster High School.