
Weekends aren’t the only days that see a heavy toll of violence in Chicago. On Tuesday of this week, for instance, 15 were shot in one day. One shooting befell a middle-aged woman who was just taking her trash cans to the curb.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Sep 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

A man in Jackson, Mississippi, was sentenced Monday for the 2011 rape of his girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter, the courts reported this week.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Sep 2015, 5:18 AM PST0

With news being made once again over disciplinary troubles in Rutgers University’s football program, Governor Chris Christie has taken time out from his pursuit of the White House to criticize the media for “overhyping” the problems.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Sep 2015, 12:13 AM PST0

A 15-year-old blond-haired, native Danish girl in Denmark was sentenced to a mere nine years in prison for stabbing her mother to death to please her 29-year-old Islamist boyfriend, prosecutors say.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Sep 2015, 8:12 PM PST0

A Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia was at the center of controversy on Tuesday when a story was posted to Facebook revealing that a “liberal” clerk recently refused to let a city police officer use the restroom.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Sep 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

Major League Baseball seems poised to send at least one game to sunny Puerto Rico next year, sources say.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Sep 2015, 12:14 AM PST0

On Monday, the Florida Department of Health announced that, from this point forward, all marriage licenses will eliminate gender-specific language to better fit the new era of gay marriage.
by Warner Todd Huston14 Sep 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

A North Carolina woman was arrested and charged with “malicious castration” after biting her boyfriend’s testicles and severely injuring him during an argument, police say.
by Warner Todd Huston14 Sep 2015, 8:11 PM PST0

GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he would allow entry of Syrian migrants into the United States, but only after new border screening rules were in place.
by Warner Todd Huston14 Sep 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

As part of his campaign for president, Dr. Ben Carson visited Ferguson, Missouri, the site of some of the most destructive rioting in recent years. While touring the city, Carson insisted that the nation needs to “de-emphasize” race and accused Obama of dragging the nation backwards on the issue.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Sep 2015, 8:43 PM PST0

The death toll was decidedly low in Chicago this weekend with only one citizen killed from the city’s continuing gang warfare, but another 18 were wounded in incidents throughout the city. One man was even shot nine times and lived to tell about it.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Sep 2015, 8:17 PM PST0

Police arrested a Bronx woman for letting her two pit bull dogs off their leash and ordering them to attack a man with whom she claimed she was arguing, causing him severe injuries and leaving him in a pool of his own blood.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Sep 2015, 6:30 PM PST0

New rules governing Obamacare eligibility have caused up to 400,000 immigrants to lose the coverage they thought they had under the President’s healthcare law, a new report says.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Sep 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

In an attempt to shore up support for President Obama’s much-hated Iran nuclear deal, the New York Times published a list of legislators who voted against the deal. But the list immediately sparked charges of anti-Semitism because one of the categories identified whether or not the Senators were Jewish. It wasn’t long before the list was taken down.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Sep 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

On Wednesday, a 13-year-old Maryland boy was arrested for stealing a kiss from a female classmate at school, police report. The boy told authorities he sneaked the kiss on a dare from other kids.
by Warner Todd Huston12 Sep 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

On the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Deadspin slammed ESPN for posting a mini documentary about the day that George W. Bush raised the nation’s spirits by throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium before game three of the 2001 World Series.
by Warner Todd Huston12 Sep 2015, 12:05 AM PST0

In the ongoing controversy over a monument dedicated to the Ten Commandments, currently standing next to the state Capitol in Oklahoma, a judge has now given the state 30 days to remove the edifice from the Capitol grounds.
by Warner Todd Huston11 Sep 2015, 10:03 PM PST0

Donald Trump’s rallies have proven so popular that now tickets to his events are being scalped like rock concert tickets. A pair of tickets for the upcoming Dallas, Texas, event, for instance, is selling for up to $200 online, a report says.
by Warner Todd Huston11 Sep 2015, 9:48 PM PST0

Little League Baseball is altering its rules to slowly eliminate older players. After the change, 13-year-olds will be excluded by the year 2018.
by Warner Todd Huston11 Sep 2015, 12:06 AM PST0

Federal authorities finishing a two-state immigration sweep announced this week that one fourth of the 79 illegals arrested were found in a single Michigan county, and all of them had a criminal record.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Sep 2015, 9:52 PM PST0

A convicted sex offender pleaded guilty to attacking and raping a co-worker as the victim lay helplessly convulsing in a seizure.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Sep 2015, 8:44 PM PST0

The L.A. Times is still bleeding employees this week with the announcement of a third high-placed staffer leaving the paper.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Sep 2015, 7:13 PM PST0

A Memphis man has been arrested for knowingly infecting his wife with the HIV virus.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Sep 2015, 6:59 PM PST0

A man accused of murder shocked a courtroom in Wilmington, North Carolina, by openly mocking the victim’s family as they sat watching the proceedings.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Sep 2015, 8:54 PM PST0

Police in Olympia, Washington report that last Saturday a U.S. Air Force pilot was beaten by a mob of “anarchists” that took exception to the pair of Confederate flags the pilot was flying from his motorcycle.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Sep 2015, 6:38 PM PST0