A man set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation’s capital as passers-by rushed over to help douse the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday afternoon.
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A motorcycle rider who was struck by an SUV during a New York motorcycle rally that turned violent is a family man who tried to defuse a tense situation, family members said Friday.
The honesty of a homeless man who handed a lost, cash-filled backpack over to police has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, the fund’s organizer said Friday.
President Barack Obama went out for a deli sandwich Friday as the shutdown went into day 4, drawing a crowd and taking advantage of the spotlight to blame House Speaker John Boehner for the government pickle.
Over the course of nine years, somebody has stolen about $26,000 from the Oregon prison system — a quarter at a time. That’s about 104,000 quarters.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will furlough 3,000 employees on Monday and potentially more in coming weeks due to the government shutdown.
WASHINGTON — Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a midmonth deadline for averting a threatened first-ever default.
Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 100 African migrants clung to empty water bottles to keep themselves from drowning and were coated in gasoline, an Italian fisherman said Friday.
A Connecticut woman who was shot to death by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House suffered from post-partum depression, her mother said.
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Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.
A Las Vegas homeowner filed a new appeal of a $180,000 fine for allegedly renting his home through Airbnb, citing violations of his constitutional rights.
Several Clark County School Board members, who claim Katie Williams no longer lives in the district, want her to relinquish her seat on the board.
Luckily for Las Vegas drivers, there is an agency that is continually working and can be contacted to alert officials to potential mistimed traffic signals.
