
Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has maintained since the beginning of the controversy over the 2014 death of a 17-year-old African American teen that he had little knowledge of the police dashcam video of the shooting. But new evidence shows that Emanuel was fully informed about what the video contained and led his lawyers to quash the release of the video just as he was running for re-election.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jan 2016, 11:05 AM PST0

Vikings running back Adrian Peterson opened up about his ordeal regarding his 2014 suspension and child-abuse case. Peterson says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was no help at all during his troubles and in fact didn’t even understand what he was going through.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jan 2016, 12:01 AM PST0

A city councilman from a south Texas city has been arrested and charged with smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Jan 2016, 3:11 PM PST0

The trouble signs for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, mount.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Jan 2016, 1:29 AM PST0

A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jan 2016, 5:30 PM PST0

Authorities have revealed that a drunk driver in New York who caused an accident that seriously injured two people on Christmas Eve is an illegal alien who had been previously deported.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jan 2016, 12:40 PM PST0

The owner of the Phoenix Suns railed against the petulance and “unrealistic expectations” harbored by members of the millennial generation.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jan 2016, 12:01 AM PST0

A California Domino’s pizza delivery man was arrested and charged with stabbing a customer after the two argued over the delay in the food’s delivery and the customer’s subsequently small tip.
by Warner Todd Huston4 Jan 2016, 6:28 PM PST0

CNN’s national security analyst, Juliette Kayyem, has come to the stark conclusion that the protests at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, are an act of terrorism and not peaceful.
by Warner Todd Huston4 Jan 2016, 5:51 PM PST0

A dating website has raised eyebrows in Utah, with a billboard campaign advertising that its services provide a place “where white people meet.”
by Warner Todd Huston4 Jan 2016, 5:09 PM PST0

As December came to a close, U.S. Border Patrol Agents announced two raids, one on an apartment on the Texas-Mexico border and another on a truck with a secret hiding place. The action resulted in the arrests of 41 illegal immigrants.
by Warner Todd Huston4 Jan 2016, 11:42 AM PST0

One member of an armed group occupying a federal building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon has made a video to share the occupiers’ side of the story.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Jan 2016, 4:02 PM PST0

Police report the arrest of a man with “several weapons” in his car in the employee parking lot at Gillette Stadium just before the NHL Winter Classic began in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Jan 2016, 10:21 AM PST0

In its last police-involved shooting of the year, officers of the Las Vegas police department shot and killed a man convicted of several violent felonies, thinking he was threatening them with a gun when he was in reality holding a cell phone.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Jan 2016, 6:02 PM PST0

As December came to a close, the media and the Obama Department of Justice reported on a case of a “hate crime” in the form of a “Koran burning” and anti-Islamic graffiti at a mosque in Springfield, Missouri. Unfortunately, it seems both the media and the Obama administration forgot to mention that the apparent purpose for the attack was based in criticism of Islam coming from gays.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Jan 2016, 5:42 PM PST0

A Wisconsin farm worker admitted to police that he had sexual relations with a donkey at the barn where he worked. But the man had an excuse. His “privates were out of control,” he insisted.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 7:27 PM PST0

As the nation celebrated New Year’s Day, most spending the day off work with family, the denizens of Chicago were working overtime to rack up victims. This year, on New Year’s Day, Chicago gang warfare racked up 2 deaths and 15 shot.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 6:38 PM PST0

The lawyer for a Somali immigrant living in Minnesota who was arrested for ties to terrorism has filed a motion to have his client released on bond.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 5:06 PM PST0

For one of his last acts in 2015, Barack Obama signed a bill that bans what advocates say is an environmentally harmful ingredient included in many personal cleansing products and cosmetics.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 1:29 PM PST0

Texas Christian University suspended quarterback Trevone Boykin after his arrest for third-degree felony assault stemming from an altercation in a San Antonio bar. The top-ten finisher in Heisman voting for each of the past two seasons remains off the field against Oregon for Saturday’s Alamo Bowl.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 12:09 AM PST0

Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.
by Warner Todd Huston31 Dec 2015, 7:14 PM PST0

Three basketball players at a Tennessee high school have been accused of the rape and aggravated assault of a 15-year-old teammate after the teen collapsed following a hazing incident, authorities say.
by Warner Todd Huston31 Dec 2015, 12:30 AM PST0

A mailman in Queens is being accused of throwing away dozens of pieces of mail and Christmas packages instead of delivering them, all because the high amount of mail “overwhelmed” him, court documents say.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 9:42 PM PST0

A Florida woman is behind bars after police charged her with killing her 3-year-old son and stuffing his body in a suitcase.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 7:07 PM PST0

Only about 20 percent of Chicago police officers carry Tasers on patrol, but now, after a series of high profile police shootings, Chicago’s police superintendent has ordered that all officers be equipped with Tasers starting next year.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 2:50 PM PST0