On Tuesday, the three-member Boone County Commission in Columbia, Missouri voted unanimously to remove a memorial honoring Operation Desert Storm from the county courthouse to a private cemetery because it featured an ichthys, AKA “Jesus fish.” Two Boone County men
Several DMV employees in Salinas and Sacramento have been arrested, along with three trucking school operators, for allegedly using bribes to help up to 100 commercial truck drivers to obtain Class A commercial drivers’ licenses illegally.
The X Train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas has scheduled its inaugural run for New Year’s Eve 2015-6. Tickets will go on sale on September, with 350 coach seats available on the retro-style Hiawatha Milwaukee Road locomotive for $99, and 150 more first-class and VIP seats for a higher price.
Red Sox fans may have spent decades of sleepless nights over their team, but one lucky fan and a friend may spend a surreal night in the Valhalla of their dreams: a sleepover at Fenway Park.
Alabama State Senator Paul Sanford had a novel idea for illuminating the age-old truth that people will vote for additional taxes as long as they don’t have to pay them, creating a GoFundMe page to pay off the state’s deficit.
On August 9, an Iowa man who flew two huge American flags from the back of his truck found one of them burned when he returned to his vehicle at the Mississippi Valley Fair in Davenport, Iowa.
Former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s is suing TMZ and former girlfriend V. Stiviano, claiming they violated his right to privacy.
On Monday, roughly 50 protesters, some of them smiling broadly as they stood in the middle of the street blocking traffic in downtown Fresno, shouted “Fresno is Ferguson!” and “Black lives matter!” to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Magic Johnson, roughly 45 miles from where his classic battles with Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics took place in the halcyon days of the NBA, said another New England sports icon should not be excluded from playing in the NFL: Tom Brady.
It appears that teachers in Brevard County in central Florida are leaving the profession in greater numbers. According to Florida Today, which interviewed some of the teachers voluntarily exiting, factors impelling the teachers to leave include the lack of respect from students and administrators, low pay, health problems, and the long hours necessary to prepare for classes.
After he heard two teenagers mock an elderly man’s house, saying, “Look at this crappy house! They just need to burn it down,” Josh Cyganik, a track inspector for Union Pacific Railroad, posted a message on Facebook, successfully rallying volunteers to help him repaint the man’s home.
Ted Wells, the investigator hired by the NFL to look into the Miami Dolphins’ 2013 bullying scandal, has been hit with a defamation suit from former Dolphins offensive line coach Jim Turner.
A rash of robberies has hit San Francisco and Oakland television news crews and still photographers in recent years, endangering the crews and shearing them of their equipment.
California, ever-eager to lead the nation in exploring new territory, has become the first state to volunteer to pay for sex reassignment surgery for a jail inmate. On Friday, the state’s corrections department announced the state would fund the surgery
On Friday, Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin blasted state and federal policies for enabling an illegal alien to avoid deportation and brutally rape and beat to death a 64-year-old Air Force veteran.
Los Angeles City Council have proposed a transportation plan they know will increase L.A. traffic, in the hope that drivers will abandon their cars and turn to other modes of transportation, such as bicycling, walking, or public transit.
On Sunday, multiple New York Times bestselling author and syndicated radio host Mark Levin packed Bookends Bookstore in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with fans eager to get a signed copy of his latest book Plunder and Deceit.
New York City’s human resources administration fired an employee but had a hard time reaching him, because he had been dead since last December.
Some of the major rivers and lakes of the Southwest, including the Colorado River, the San Juan River and Lake Powell, may turn polluted and dangerous after the Environmental Protection Agency badly managed a cleanup crew on Wednesday that was trying to drain water containing metals such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, aluminum, and copper from the Gold King Mine.
Gov. Jerry Brown will not interfere with a Board of Parole Hearings’ recommendation that a transgender inmate be paroled and lose the chance to force the state to pay for sex-change surgery.
It took almost a year, but on Friday, the family of Kevin Ward Jr. filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Tony Stewart for striking Ward with his car last August 9 at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
An elderly woman and her two middle-aged sons were found hammered to death with their throats slit in their Pensacola, Florida, home last Friday in what may have been a ritualistic killing associated with witchcraft.
Although be believes Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump “like a drum,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blasted Fox News for its queries of Trump during Thursday’s GOP presidential debate.
Two teenagers, boyfriend and girlfriend, are now joking that they have an “electric love” because they were struck by lightning while holding hands in Claremont on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti in 2013, has given him an overall grade of “C” for his performance.
