2 hours ago - By Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Music Writer
Aretha Franklin says she can't attend Whitney Houston's funeral because of her health.
2 hours ago - By Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press
Four years of tuition at the University of New Haven's business school? About $120,000.
2 hours ago - By Associated Press
Republicans from more than two dozen towns in a Maine county are gathering for a presidential caucus that was postponed by bad weather, but it's unclear whether their votes will be included in the party's official state tally.
3 hours ago - By Associated Press
Officials at an Ohio university have ordered radios on campus shuttle buses be locked into one station after a student complained a driver was a playing a "far-right Christian political" channel at high volume.
3 hours ago - By Dan Joling, Associated Press
U.S. Forest Service researchers have confirmed what has long been suspected about a valuable tree in Alaska's Panhandle: Climate warming is killing off yellow cedar.
3 hours ago - By Associated Press
ESPN has apologized for using a racial slur in a headline for a story on Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
3 hours ago - By Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press
When Jack Robertson walks his dog atop the earthen levee just blocks from his home, the San Joaquin River rushes past on one side and rows of tract houses unfold on the other.
3 hours ago - By Juliet Williams, Associated Press
Critics have called it the train to nowhere and a $98 billion boondoggle. As concerns mount over the practicality and affordability of California's plan to build a high-speed rail system, even many former supporters are beginning to sound skeptical.
3 hours ago - By Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press
In Lathrop, a small community that mushroomed on a floodplain in California's Central Valley, levee repairs are paving way for thousands more homes.
4 hours ago - By Associated Press
A fast-moving fire swept through a multifamily home early Saturday, killing four people, all of whom appeared to be children or teenagers, fire officials said.
8 hours ago - By Associated Press
Authorities say a naked 12-year-old girl was discovered eating food out of trash cans in Temecula and her mother has been arrested on suspicion of child endangerment.
11 hours ago - By Oskar Garcia, Associated Press
Muhammad Ali had seven prizefights in Las Vegas, with his two losses there coming in the twilight of his legendary career. Now, dozens of heavyweight celebrities are back in Sin City to laud a lifetime in the spotlight and join the icon known as "The Greatest" in fighting neurological diseases.
16 hours ago - By Rachel Cohen, AP Sports Writer
Jeremy Lin knows everybody credited him for the Knicks' seven straight wins, so he takes the blame for their one-game losing streak.
13 hours ago - By Associated Press
Fire crews doused a dramatic blaze that broke out Friday at Washington's largest oil refinery, sending up towering flames and creating a thick plume of black smoke visible for miles.
14 hours ago - By Associated Press
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up his four-day U.S. visit in Southern California style — in a box seat at the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns on Friday night.
15 hours ago - By Associated Press
Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear will be the U.S. military's next leader in the Asia-Pacific region.
15 hours ago - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Winners of the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards, presented Friday in Los Angeles:
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Source: FBI Rhode Island - U.S. Attorney's Office
PROVIDENCE, RI—David Crisostomi, 36, of East Providence, R.I., was ordered detained by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D.
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Source: FBI Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON—Kenneth Michael Drew, 42, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., James W.
Source: FBI North Carolina - U.S. Attorney's Office
NEW BERN—United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday MATTHEW BRYAN WARFORD, 21, pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge David W.
Source: FBI Illinois - U.S. Attorney's Office
CHICAGO—A former west suburban man was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing and transporting child pornography, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
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With income of more than $57,000 a day — without a paying job — Romney pays less in taxes than most Americans.
Source: The Austin American-Statesman
Private property rights advocates rallied Friday in Austin in support of a Northeast Texas landowner who was in court in Paris to defend the taking of her land by pipeline company TransCanada Corp. The Calgary-based TransCanada is in the process of trying to secure land in …
Source: the Mail online
A woman whose son served her with eviction papers on her 98th birthday two months ago is fighting his efforts to remove her from her home. Mary Kantorowski has lived in her yellow, Cape Cod-style home in Fairfield Connecticut since 1953.
Source: http://www.nationofchange.org/
Willie Nelson, along with 300,000 other activists who support small family farms and a healthy and fair food system, sued food giant Monsanto in Federal Court in Manhattan on January 31, 2012.
Source: Chicago Reader
Obama's campaign motto—hope and change—isn't a governing philosophy. When he took office, "Yes, we can" quickly changed into "Guess we can't." His ideology has often seemed to be "Compromise, at all costs."
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Source: FBI Florida - U.S. Attorney's Office
MIAMI—Lavont Flanders Jr., 41, of Miami Gardens, Fla., and Emerson Callum, 45, of Miami, were both sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore to 12 consecutive terms of life in prison on sex trafficking charges, announced Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S.
Source: FBI New Mexico - U.S. Attorney's Office
ALBUQUERQUE—This morning, a federal judge in Albuquerque sentenced Aero Nez, 23, of Shiprock, N.M., to 18 months of imprisonment for his federal assault conviction.
Source: MiamiHerald.com
Well thank GOD some state representatives in America can see the harm and destruction by American families by our government giving, giving and giving some more to the illegal aliens. Harry Reid has said he sees nothing wrong with illegal alien families using thei …
Source: Consumerist
Here's a helpful hint to anyone wishing to run a million-dollar insurance scam — don't post pictures on Facebook of you and your friends waving wads of cash. The owners of five body shops in Florida were arrested earlier this week, charged with illegally towing cars that …
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Source: the Mail online
How dopey can you get? By anyone's standards, it was a serious lapse of judgement. A privately-owned Cessna aircraft that entered the same Los Angeles airspace as Marine One while the helicopter was ferrying President Barack Obama was intercepted by two fighter jets yesterday. …