Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel’s chairman said.
Jeremy Holmes takes three months off from his job as a car salesman in Nashville to chase and photograph storms across the country. (Photo: Samuel M. Simpkins, The Tennessean).
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend.
The Senate immigration bill cleared the Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan vote Tuesday night, ducking — for now — big fights on guns, gay rights and how broadly the legalization is drawn, and leaving the 867-page overhaul mostly unscathed by conservative attacks.
DOTHAN, AL (WPMI) – Alabama Health officials are trying to find out what caused a mysterious respiratory illness that killed 2 people and left 5 others in a Houston County Hospital this month.
237Hoover, Ala. - After matching a school record with a 17-innining victory over Missouri Tuesday night, No. 13 MSU knocked off No. 12 South Carolina 5-3 in an equally-compelling second round game at the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament on Wednesday.
Part of the Coast is being invaded this week by termites. Millions swarmed across Harrison County Wednesday night. Gordon Redd of Redd Pest Control confirmed this is the time of year when the termites appear in big numbers.
GULFPORT, Mississippi -- Moonseop Kim, 54, of South Korea, was sentenced in U.S. District Court this week to time served of 8 1/2 months, according to U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
A member of the Canton Democratic Municipal Executive Committee was arrested late Tuesday night in the Madison County courthouse when a disagreement about vote counting led to an altercation.
114Biggers ordered Shaw to serve 30 months in prison, followed by 5 years supervised release. She also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $327,842. 00.
The IRS official who refused to testify at a House hearing Wednesday has become a key focus of the congressional investigations into the IRS practice of singling out conservative groups. .
1On “Fox News Sunday” last weekend, White House aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked about President Barack Obama’s whereabouts the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi.
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