It all started July 27, 2007; several people’s lives were forever changed on that day.  In Cheshire, Connecticut, the Petit family home was invaded, and three people were murdered: Jennifer Hawke- Petit...

Twenty years after his conviction for the murder of a police officer in 1989, Troy Davis was executed by the State of Georgia late last Wednesday night. The issue of capital punishment has long...

On September sixteenth a fateful event took place claiming the lives of eleven people, and injuring at least another seventy. On Friday, September 16, a World War II-era fighter plane crashed into a grandstand...

For eighteen years, "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" has been the official policy on homosexuals in the military. The policy that was enacted under the Clinton Administration barred openly gay, lesbian, and...

On Sunday, September 18, gunmen burst into a pub in Burundi.  The Province Governor of Bujumbura, Jacques Minani, said the gunmen attacked the pub in Gatumba after crossing the river from Congo. One...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Obama found an unusual ally — reality TV — in her effort to bring attention to the needs of military families. The first lady, appearing Sunday on the two-part season...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied Monday as investors bet that European finance ministers would take action soon to prop up the region's unstable economies. European officials pledged over the weekend...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to identify more than $3 trillion in long-term deficit reduction and slow the nation’s escalating...

When the Rembrandt that was stolen from the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del-Ray was recovered, it should have been an open and shut case, but instead it turned into another mystery.  According to the Huffington...

Maxim Health Care, once known as MEDCALL Medical Staffing, was founded in Columbia, Maryland in 1988. It started off as a small medical staffing company but now has more than 60,000 employees and subsidiaries...

On Monday, Sept. 12, a gasoline pipeline exploded in one of the slums in Nairobi, Kenya, killing over 95 people and wounding over 100 others. The Sinai slum, one of the major slums in Nairobi that houses...

GANGTOK, India (AP) — Rescue workers dug through mudslides as they struggled Monday to reach thousands of villagers cut off by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 53 people and damaged...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thousands of protesters armed with sticks and backed by armed military defectors overran a base of the elite Presidential Guards in Yemen’s capital as fighting erupted across much...

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he won't be deterred from seeking U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine, despite what he said was "tremendous pressure"...

During a trip to north New Jersey on Sunday, President Barack Obama toured several of the most flood-stricken areas affected by Hurricane Irene.  The president urged "Republicans not to play politics...