Emergency responders in the small town of Coal City, about 60 miles (100 km) south of Chicago, reported that homes were destroyed by the storm, said Joe Schroeder, director of the Grundy County Emergency Management Agency.
The First Amendment protects the right of the people and the press to criticize the government, especially when their opinions are presented in highly offensive terms. But the First Amendment does not prevent the government from trying to undermine and deny that right whenever it suits the bureaucracy’s interests. The Department of Justice’s recent treatment of Reason magazine and some commenters on its website highlights federal hostility to dissent and the lengths Washington will go to chill free speech.
The Obama administration is often criticized by conservatives for selectively enforcing, or failing to enforce, the law. These complaints most often arise in relation to immigration or drug laws that the president disagrees with, but this administration’s law enforcement failures go beyond those issues.
I suppose the only thing left now is a nationally televised sit-down with Oprah, because it appears Lance Armstrong was just keeping the chair warm for Pete Rose.
You may not know it, but you probably have some Neanderthal in you. For people around the world, except sub-Saharan Africans, about 1 to 3 percent of their DNA comes from Neanderthals, our close cousins who disappeared roughly 39,000 years ago.
The heir-apparent of South Korea’s massive Samsung Group bowed in apology during a nationally televised address on Tuesday for failing to stop the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at a Seoul hospital run by a group foundation.
A video has never before been so cringeworthy, and we all have Fox News co-host Pete Hegseth to thank for this nerve-wracking clip.
One of three police officers who shot dead an unarmed Mexican farmworker in Washington state, triggering protests akin to those after police slayings in other U.S. cities, has resigned from his job amid an investigation into the videotaped struggle.
Nevada’s specialty courts are set to expand significantly with the infusion of $3 million a year in new funding provided by the 2015 Legislature, court officials said Monday.
A special prosecutor in New Mexico will seek second-degree murder charges against two Albuquerque police officers in the 2014 shooting death of a knife-wielding homeless man that triggered protests in the city, court papers showed on Monday.
A Columbus, Ohio police officer accidentally wounded a 4-year-old girl when he fired at a charging dog.
A 23-year-old Indiana woman will make an appearance in court on Wednesday after she allegedly stole a police cruiser while handcuffed and crashed it into a gas well.
Whether chasing a story or hiking in the hills, Laura Myers was impossible to catch and something to behold. It’s how Laura lived her life, not how it ended, that made her special.
The Supreme Court refused to overrule precedent and sided with Marvel Entertainment by concluding that a patentee cannot continue to receive royalties for a patent after it expires.
Composer James Horner, who won two Oscars for the music of “Titanic” and scored such other blockbusters as “Avatar,” “Braveheart,” “Apollo 13” and “A Beautiful Mind,” has died, Variety has confirmed. He was 61.
“I tell my players, ‘I’ve been in a bunch of fights in my life. Never lost one, but I had my twin brother with me.’ If I can get my team to fight like we did as twin brothers, we’ll whip everybody,” Bills coach Rex Ryan told Tim Graham, who wrote an excellent feature on the Ryan family in Sunday’s Buffalo News.
There was another grand entrance at the MGM Grand on Monday afternoon involving a sporting icon. But hockey’s Stanley Cup was not wearing a TMT jump suit, which is what Floyd Mayweather Jr. was wearing at the MGM’s previous grand entrance.
Foreign tourists flock to Thailand’s ubiquitous street markets, fascinated by the look and feel of the high-quality counterfeit goods openly on display and the cheap prices shouted out by touts.
Rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California Los Angeles on Monday, college law enforcement authorities said.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a Pahrump man whose body was found behind a casino and who had recently been released from jail.
President Barack Obama used the n-word during an interview released Monday to make a point that there’s still plenty of room for America to combat racism.
“Hannibal” won’t live to see a fourth season: NBC announced the cancellation Monday. Currently in its third season, which premiered June 4, the drama will finish up its entire 13-episode run in the same 10 p.m. timeslot Thursday nights this summer, wrapping up on Sept. 3, with the season-three finale serving as the series ender.
‘Baz’ opening at Mandalay’s Light club is the latest attempt to get ticketed audiences to stay and party.
Traveling to California on Interstate 15 can be a hassle Monday evening, as traffic is backing up, cameras show.
A man North Las Vegas police were seeking in connection with a shooting that left a relative critically wounded turned himself in Sunday, police said Monday. Terry Johnson, 38, is accused of shooting a 42-year-old man last week, police said.
Prentice Marshall, who had been facing the death penalty in the slaying of a Metro officer, pleaded guilty Monday to murder and robbery charges.
Although it dominated the second half to post a 2-0 win over Colombia at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, the U.S. is faced with replacing two key starters for Friday’s quarterfinal match with China in Ottawa.
Heller’s campaign will return a $500 campaign contribution received in 2012 from the leader of a white supremacist group mentioned by the alleged killer of nine people in a Charleston, S.C. church.
Defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield testified that he contemplated suicide in the months after his guilty plea in a high-profile courthouse fraud involving forged documents showing convicted prostitutes had completed mandatory counseling.
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