The Staten Island Yankees minor league ball team launched a “blue lives matter day” promotion that has angered some fans because Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown death.
The Target department store chain has announced that it intends go “gender neutral” in its stores by eliminating the colors blue and pink in displays and signage and getting rid of the words “boys” and “girls” on clothing and toys wherever possible.
As the Chicago Public School District’s budget continues to crash, officials have announced the next round of layoffs, with over 450 employees getting the axe in schools across the city.
Authorities in the Florida Panhandle arrested two men for a brutal attack on a state wildlife officer last Friday. The men were charged with shooting the officer and then running him over with his own patrol boat, county officials reported.
Four people died in a fiery plane crash that occurred in a remote area of New York’s Adirondack Mountains on Friday night, authorities report. FAA officials report that the cause of the crash is unknown and that no distress call
Despite his recent ankle injury, the PGA has announced that the world’s top golfer, Rory McIlroy, will play the 2015 PGA Championship. McIlroy will be joined by Jordan Spieth and Zach Thompson.
Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department was criticized for purportedly having stopped and checked a disproportionate number of blacks and even made more stops than departments in other cities. Now the department has agreed to outside monitoring of its “stop and frisk” practices.
A second death in less than a year has hit the INEX Legends race league after driver Joan Feller died Wednesday from injuries suffered in last Friday’s head on collision at Hawkeye Downs Speedway in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Police in Pascagoula, Mississippi, reported on Monday that two 16-year-old males were arrested for last week’s attack on the home of a local 85-year-old military veteran.
Two men were arrested for building a meth lab in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Taco Bell where one of the men worked, police said on Wednesday.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city council are now set to approve the addition of sex change surgery to city employees’ health care coverage, sources report.
With the Democrat primary race well under way, one candidate for the nomination insists that the Democrat Party is tilting the primaries to ensure that Hillary Clinton can more easily win the nomination.
Police in New York City are becoming increasingly alarmed at the side effects of “synthetic marijuana” seen in its users.
One of the world’s top free divers is missing and presumed dead after disappearing under the waves in the ocean off the coast of Spain last Sunday.
Department charge that Marvin Gee, 44, was encouraging people to begin killing cops on sites like Craigslist.
On a national grassroots call hosted by Mark Meckler, tea party leader and founder of Citizens for Self Governance, Texas Senator Ted Cruz came out as the clear early favorite of national grassroots leaders. The call included over 100 tea party leaders and some former country Republican Party officials from 33 states including the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
A judge has ruled that the city of St. Louis does not need the approval of the taxpayers to spend millions of tax dollars on a new riverfront stadium.
Despite that the city has experienced the most violent year for decades, not to mention the city’s widely failed response to the recent riots, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she will not resign.
A fan so incensed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady over “Deflategate” went to the expense of hiring a banner-dragging plane to fly over the commissioner’s vacation home in Maine to tell him to go “home to New York.”
Agents with the Douglas-Coffee Drug Unit reported that, during her arrest, police observed a woman trying to escape a drug charge by eating the crack cocaine she had in her possession.
An employee, who works at the sports arena where the Cleveland Cavaliers play, was beaten and robbed outside the stadium on Saturday night, authorities report.
The manhunt is on for 29-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, the man that Memphis police have ID’d as the murderer of a local officer shot during a routine traffic stop on Saturday night.
This year has been the bloodiest, most violent in Baltimore for a generation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and now two chiefs of police struggling for solutions. But now, federal agents are embedding with the Baltimore police department in the hopes of putting an end to the out-of-control violence.
Part of Minnesota’s Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after a backpack found lying unattended tested positive for explosive materials.
The Minnesota dentist who is charged with hunting and killing Zimbabwe’s Cecil The Lion has gone into hiding as animal rights activists target his home and offices with protests and vandalism. But now the African nation where the hunt took place is also seeking his extradition to face charges of illegal hunting in the death of the well-known lion.
