A political dirty-tricks investigation of Gov. Chris Christie’s inner circle broke wide open Wednesday with the release of emails and text messages that suggest one of his top aides engineered traffic jams in a New Jersey town last September to punish its mayor.
Despite having a marriage license, dozens, maybe hundreds, of couples missed their chance to be legally married in Utah after the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday to temporarily halt gay marriages until an appeals court considers whether gay couples have a right to wed in Utah.
The cold front that has overrun most of the eastern United States is starting to wane today, but cities are not out of the ice just yet.
A Nebraska waitress received far more than just a tip when she served two inquisitive customers this week.
Oil-rich and overrun with crime, Venezuela is seeing a flood of social media outrage over the death of a popular soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela, 29-year-old Monica Spear. She and her ex-husband resisted robbers and were killed. Their 5-year-old daughter was wounded.
Playoff parties may have one fewer dip option this year. Kraft Foods says some customers may not be able to find Velveeta cheese over the next few weeks.
A sweeping fraud case involving scores of retired officers, firefighters and jail guards unfolded Tuesday in New York. The retirees faked psychiatric problems, authorities said, and many falsely claimed their conditions arose after the Sept. 11 attacks. More than 100 were arrested.
A defense official said four U.S. Air Force crew members have been killed in helicopter crash in England. A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in a coastal area of eastern England on Tuesday night, an official said.
One person is dead and three others are injured following an avalanche in the backcountry near Vail, Colo. Eagle County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jessie Mosher says the slide happened at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in East Vail Chutes, an area between Vail Mountain and Vail Pass.
Boxes filled with bananas and cocaine were delivered to five Berlin supermarkets in what police on Tuesday called a “logistical error” by drug smugglers.
A University of Virginia medical student potentially saved a man’s life recently during what was supposed to be a routine training exercise.
A new all-electric race car made its debut Monday at a makeshift racetrack behind the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Brutal cold settled over much of the nation this week, sparing the west but leaving people in cities from Nashville to New York scrambling to avoid heading outside. The weather has had some unexpected consequences. We’ll be keeping track of them here throughout the day.
The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases.
Sorry, but we just don’t understand. Sure, many of us came from parts of the country that are being whipped by an arctic blast right now, but the distance makes us a little insensitive to the situation in the Midwest and on the East Coast.
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