BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into the gate of a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 19 people, Iraqi officials said. Also, a rare explosion inside...

The slate of candidates vying to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Independent Joseph Lieberman has ballooned since he announced in January that he will not seek a fifth term....

With today’s crime and violence rates among youth increasing, it’s evident that more needs to be done. One organization that puts hard work, funds, and thought into this concerning epidemic is the...

Jerry Sandusky, 67, the former head coach of the Penn State football team, was arrested Saturday on 40 sex offense charges that range from indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child, involuntary...

Three of the largest and most profitable US corporations paid no federal corporate income tax for the past three years. General Electric (GE), Boeing, and Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation (PG&E)...

Recently in Mississippi, a proposition was written and is up for voting. It declares that a fertilized egg would be considered a person. No one, including those who wrote the law, knows how it would be...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carolyn Anderson likes to chat up the growers at her local farmers market in Missouri, at times hanging out behind the beds of pickup trucks brimming with ears of corn. For Anderson,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — a case that could shake the political landscape as American...

The human population reached one billion in 1804.  In 1900, there were 1.6 billion people alive. We hit the five billion mark in 1987. Now, in 2011, we have seven billion people on Earth. The United Nations...

Law enforcement in Arizona has arrested more than seventy people in raids on a drug network that has been linked to a drug cartel that has generated two billion dollars in illicit proceeds.  The drug...

Bernard Madoff was arrested and sentenced to 150 years in prison, on December 11 in 2008. It came as a result of a massive Ponzi scheme, which was conducted in the business that he shared with his sons....

The UNH student who fell from a fourth-story at Sheffield Hall Saturday evening has died of his injuries, according to sources. Samuel Milano, a sophomore majoring in criminal justice from Cary, N.C.,...

A village of tents has arisen on the New Haven Green. One of which might even a winter tent with wood stove. Its inhabitants each have a slightly different reason for being there. They all share one thing...

Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Conn.’s third congressional district held neighborhood office hours last Saturday at the Stop and Shop supermarket of Orange, Conn.  From 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., DeLauro met one-on-one...

BPA, or Bisphenol A, is a chemical used to make hard plastic food and drink containers. Water bottles, food storage containers, baby bottles, receipts, and reusable cups all contain BPA. For years, the...