Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.
Protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine’s embattled capital. Government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor.
Two men pleaded guilty Thursday to a 2011 beating at Dodger Stadium that left San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow brain damaged and disabled. They were immediately sentenced by an angry judge who called them cowards and the sort of people that sports fans fear when go to games.
Three deer trapped for as many days on an icy lake in Minnesota were rescued by a father-son duo who first learned about their plight on Facebook.
The lone winning ticket for the $425 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a convenience store in central California, but there was no immediate word on who may have won one of the largest lottery jackpots in U.S. history.
A New York woman says she was fired from McDonald’s after she and her co-workers paid for some firefighters’ meals when the franchise declined to donate the food.
Ukrainian protesters seized control of the capital’s central post office Wednesday, hurling fire bombs and rocks against officers in riot gear, a day after clashes that left at least 25 people dead and raised fears of civil war.
A motorcyclist who taunted San Antonio police for a week with a Facebook video of himself driving recklessly through traffic along with the message “catch me if you can” was caught while sneaking out of a friend’s house, police said on Tuesday.
Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the artists tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics.
The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.
Defiant protesters shouted “Glory to Ukraine” as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday.
A woman convicted of killing her pregnant friend and cutting the baby from her womb was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison while the victim’s father sat in court holding his daughter’s ashes.
Russian punk group Pussy Riot burst onto the Olympic scene Tuesday when two of its members were picked up by police in host city Sochi — and then ran away defiant down a rain-soaked street a few hours later, shouting and wearing their trademark garish balaclavas.
It was not a pile of late fees a South Carolina woman got when a video store owner said she failed to return a video she rented in 2005. Instead, she spent a night in jail.
An oil infused with medical marijuana, now called Charlotte’s Web, has aided 5-year-old Charlotte Figi the last two years from suffering from seizures. Now more families are relocating to Colorado for the same help for their children.
