Two people died and 13 others were injured in four separate shootings in New Orleans early Tuesday, including one on Bourbon Street where costumed revelers were celebrating Halloween.
The Supreme Court denied Monday the certiorari petition filed by Avery Doninger's attorneys, effectively ending three years of legal wrangling in a period that saw the rise of a host of off-campus, online student expression court cases.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other senior administration officials visited Pakistan in October to demand that Pakistan's spy agency either deliver the Haqqani network, a virulent part of the insurgency fighting American forces in Afghanistan, to the negotiating table or help fight them in their stronghold in Pakistan's rugged tribal areas.
City firefighters returned from a call yesterday morning to find that their firehouse had been broken into and personal items stolen, Fire Director Qareeb Bashir confirmed.
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An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.
Iran rejected allegations of an Iranian scheme to kill a Saudi Arabian ambassador, upbraiding on Wednesday a Swiss diplomat who represents American interests in Tehran and accusing the United States of fabricating the plot to deflect attention from its own pressing problems.
Police will continue to look for answers Thursday in a deadly Southern California shooting that killed eight people -- six women and two men -- and critically injured a ninth.
Splashed across the front page of the local newspaper here on Tuesday was the story of a 24-year-old Occupy protester named Keith Cuesta. He was not in New York, where some have been living in a park near Wall Street for nearly four weeks, but about 1,000 miles away in Tampa, where a small group of self-described "99 percenters" have decided to camp out in solidarity.
A 28-year-old Newark man who earned the criminal moniker Black Stocking Robber has admitted to robbing eight banks, including a Readington Township Bank of America where he stole more than $42,000, federal authorities said today.
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The classrooms at the Dawn of Freedom middle school were empty. Teachers shuffled around aimlessly outside or gossiped in the halls. A small group of bored teenagers sat in the theater and hatched a plan to coax their classmates back.
For many Yankee fans, the thought of A. J. Burnett's pitching with their team on the brink of elimination was a horrifying proposition. Burnett has struggled all season, and many feel he does not have the temperament for pressure situations.
Chris Christie's decision on Tuesday to pass up a White House bid means that only one establishment candidate remains: Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, who offers brainy competence and private-sector experience as the answer to four years of Mr. Obama.
When Amanda Knox and her family landed home in Seattle on Tuesday, it was the culmination of an exhaustive four-year legal, lobbying and public relations effort that ultimately succeeded when an Italian court overturned her murder conviction and freed her from prison.
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A member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club was facing charges including assault with a deadly weapon Sunday after a brawl between club members devolved into a gunfight that left one person dead.
