It looked like things were really starting to heat up for this little factory town when the maker of the Sriracha chili sauce opened a sprawling 650,000-square-foot factory within its borders. Getting the jobs and economic boost was great. Getting a whiff of the sauce being made wasn’t
Former Illinois U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a North Carolina prison Tuesday to begin serving a 2 1/2-year term for illegally spending $750,000 in campaign money on everything from cigars to a gold watch.
The usual scenario involves suspicious glances, inattentive clerks or rude service — not handcuffs.
Move over, website woes. Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health care problem — a wave of cancellation notices hitting individuals and small business who buy their own insurance.
Trayvon Martin’s mother told a panel of senators Tuesday that state stand your ground self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue a year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
The judge sentenced Kevin Santos to life in prison. Then she performed his wedding ceremony. Next, she gave the new couple cake she had baked. The events did not sit well with the family of the murder victim, and San Diego Superior Court judge Patricia Cookson is hearing about it.
Police say 56-year-old Michael Guzzo killed four members of a family who lived next door, along with their two dogs. He then walked across a courtyard and tried to kill more neighbors with dogs before he returned home and killed himself. The reason? It might have been the dogs’ barking.
