After bouts with protesters ransacking and burning businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, it would be natural for shop owners to fear the gathering of masses. But crowds of a sort are flocking to the aid of the St. Louis suburb and community leaders are pleasantly overwhelmed.
A U.S. healthcare worker, who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa, arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital has confirmed.
A Staten Island, New York, grand jury announcement, Dec. 3, that there would be no indictment of Daniel Pantaleo, a white officer, in the death of Eric Garner, a black man, brought cries of protest in New York and around the country. But Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and seminary ...
New York City police have launched a pilot program to equip officers with body cameras on Wednesday, hours before a grand jury decided against bringing charges against a policeman in the choke hold death of a Staten Island man.
Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by Judy Huth of southern California, who says the 77-year-old comedian molested her at the Playboy mansion when she was just 15 years old in 1974. It is unknown how much in damages she is seeking from the beleaguered comedian, but the suit states that the alleged ...
On Tuesday, Massachusetts General Hospital admitted a patient possibly infected with the Ebola virus, the hospital said in a statement.
The police officer who applied an unsanctioned chokehold that killed Eric Garner was not indicted Wednesday, according to early reports. A Staten Island grand jury decided not to pursue charges against white police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was videotaped grabbing the African-American man from ...
Ashton Carter, who served as deputy defense secretary under Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel, will replace Hagel as U.S. defense secretary, sources familiar with the situation said.
Chicago\'s city council approved a plan to raise the hourly minimum wage in the city to $13 during the next five years, according to reports on Tuesday. The rise from $8.25 per hour represents a 57 percent raise, and the move, which comes just months before Mayor Rahm Emanuel\'s run for reelection ...
Major Democratic Party donor Terrence Bean, co-founder of the Human Rights Campaign, arguably the largest U.S. homosexual rights advocacy group, is scheduled for a Dec. 3 arraignment in Lane County, Oregon on child sex crimes.
About 100 municipal buildings in downtown Detroit closed down due to a power outage on Tuesday. Morning and classes were canceled at schools, according to officials, but the cause of the surge is still unknown.
Janay Rice, the wife of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, insisted in an interview on NBC\'s \"Today\" program that her husband had never hit her prior to their fight in a New Jersey casino elevator in February.