CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As hundreds of thousands of residents faced a third day without water because of a chemical spill in a local river, a water company executive said on Saturday that it could be days before it was safe…
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We think it’s fair to say ninth-grade student Kiara Molina had a great day Thursday. Not only did the teen introduce President Barack Obama before one of his major speeches, but the president called it “one of the best introductions…
Taylor Smith, a 12-year-old girl from Tennessee, died last week of complications from pneumonia. Family photos courtesy of Tim Smith She had flu-like symptoms in the days leading up to her death, like achy legs and a sore throat, but…
A 34-year-old Washington woman who sadistically and systematically tortured her 13-year-old brother-in-law by beating him with a baseball bat, slicing his skin with a heated knife and forcing him to remain tied naked to a dog house without food and…
On Wednesday, the last day of his tragic life, Myls asked King to go to McDonald’s. Instead, he was beaten and locked in a bathroom — a punishment that he’d endured before, along with many others that were just as…
Chris Hayes invited Fort Lee’s Mayor, Mark Sokolich on his show tonight, to get a first hand feel of what his response is to members of Christie’s office shutting lanes to the Washington Bridge, in an apparent retaliatory move against…
A big, messy, tragic, stupid, vengeful scandal had to come to New Jersey during the Chris Christie era, and thus, it has reached us now. Yes, it turns out that the governor’s staff knew about and directed the Port Authority…
Mark Obama Ndesandjo President Obama’s half-brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo is a skillful pianist, author and businessman. Educated at Brown, Stanford and Emory Universities, he uses his skills to create art, pen memoirs, and teach the arts to orphans in…
Basketball diplomacy? Hall of Fame basketball player Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea Monday with a team of former NBA players in tow as part of the next step of his program of so-called “basketball diplomacy.” Taking his by-now customary…
Screenshot of blaze, l; photo from 26th floor, r, via Mickey Atwal The Sunday morning fire in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment building that killed one man and seriously injured his husband was deemed accidental by the Fire Department. Apparently the cause of the three-alarm blaze…
KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to slapping a crying toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight to serve eight months in federal prison. Joe Rickey Hundley was accused…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicholas Simmons disappeared from his parents’ house in a small upstate New York town on New Year’s Day, leaving behind his wallet, cellphone and everything else. Four days later, an Associated Press photographer, looking for a way…