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New York City stop-and-frisk lawsuit gets class-action status
Wed May 16, 2012 6:49 PM EDT
A federal judge sharply critical of New York City police tactics granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming officers’ stop-and-frisk policy discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
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Cities struggle to keep Memorial Day, Fourth of July celebrations alive
Tue May 15, 2012 12:49 PM EDT
Summer holidays may be a little quieter this year in some cash-strapped American cities, but others are taking steps to make sure fallen soldiers are remembered on Memorial Day and the nation's birth is celebrated with a bang on the Fourth of July.
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Florida mother kills 4 children, then herself, deputies say
Tue May 15, 2012 11:30 AM EDT
Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET: A Florida mother killed her four children and then shot herself Tuesday morning as Brevard County, Fla., deputies closed in on her Port St. John home, authorities said.
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Researchers: Japan will have no kids under age 15 by 3011
Sun May 13, 2012 2:57 AM EDT
Japan will have no children under the age of 15 in 999 years if current trends continue, according to researchers at Tohoku University Graduate School of Economics in Sendai.
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Father sees 'miracle' as Aimee Copeland fights flesh-eating bacteria
Sat May 12, 2012 8:34 PM EDT
Doctors in Georgia may be able to save more of flesh-eating bacteria patient Aimee Copeland’s limbs than originally thought, her father said in a blog post Saturday. Copeland, 24, of Snellville, Ga., remained in critical condition Saturday at the Joseph M. Still …
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Jennifer and Julia Hudson on Balfour conviction: 'We have felt the love'
Fri May 11, 2012 11:15 PM EDT
Jennifer Hudson and her sister Julia got the verdict they wanted when William Balfour was convicted of murdering their mother, Darnell Donerson; brother Jason Hudson; and Julia's 7-year-old son, Julian King. With the painful murder trial behind them, the sisters are thanking tho …
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Obama pushes Congress to help underwater homeowners
Fri May 11, 2012 6:19 PM EDT
RENO, Nev. – Thursday, it was George’s mansion; Friday it was Val and Paul’s house. The day after President Barack Obama joked around with movie star George Clooney at a high-dollar dinner, he sat down in Val and Paul Keller’s kitch …
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2 Fullerton, Calif., officers ordered to stand trial in death of beaten homeless man
Wed May 9, 2012 5:48 PM EDT
Two Southern California police officers must stand trial in the death of mentally ill homeless man Kelly Thomas, whose beating by cops was captured in a graphic video shown publicly for the first time this week in court, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Sandusky lawyer asks for delay in child sex-abuse trial
Wed May 9, 2012 12:06 PM EDT
The lawyer for Jerry Sandusky on Wednesday asked for a delay in the former Penn State assistant football coach's June 5 trial on 52 counts of child sex-abuse trial.
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Suspect's wife, mother charged in slaying of Tennessee mom, daughter
Tue May 8, 2012 1:40 PM EDT
Police have arrested the wife and mother of Adam Mayes, the man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman's two youngest daughters, authorities said Tuesday.
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Video of police beating homeless man brings gasps in courtroom
Tue May 8, 2012 12:11 PM EDT
A graphic video showing Fullerton, Calif., police Officer Manuel Ramos and another policeman swinging at a homeless schizophrenic man named Kelly Thomas brought gasps and cries from Orange County courtroom spectators Monday when it was shown publicly for the first time.
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South Korea karaoke bar fire kills 9
Sun May 6, 2012 12:49 AM EDT
A fire swept through a karaoke bar in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan, killing nine people and injuring 25 others, police said on Sunday. The fire broke out in one of the 28 rooms of the karaoke lounge on the third floor of a six-story building late on Saturday.
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2 bodies found in search for Tennessee mom, 3 daughters
Sat May 5, 2012 10:56 PM EDT
Two bodies have been found in Mississippi during the search for a missing Tennessee woman and her three children, who authorities believed to be “in extreme danger."
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Ex-New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson wins Libertarian presidential nomination
Sat May 5, 2012 7:40 PM EDT
LAS VEGAS -- The Libertarian Party on Saturday chose former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, once a Republican White House hopeful, as its presidential candidate in the Nov. 6 election. Johnson, who announced in December he would run for president as a Libertarian after mo …
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French presidential election should be a nail-biter
Sat May 5, 2012 6:03 AM EDT
Every reliable pollster in France is predicting a blowout. Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande will beat President Nicolas Sarkozy – a center-right conservative – by 5 to 6 percent. So, will this 2012 presidential election be a yawner? Neither candidate thinks s …
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Sanford, Fla., temporary police chief to launch department review
Fri May 4, 2012 10:06 PM EDT
SANFORD, FL -- Declaring that Sanford doesn't have the "luxury of time," the new interim Police Chief Richard Myers said on Friday he would launch an "a-to-z review" of the department and vowed to mend wounds opened by the Feb. 26 shooting of unarmed African-American teen T …
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US drone attack kills 8 suspected militants in northwest Pakistan
Fri May 4, 2012 9:21 PM EDT
Eight suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone attack Saturday in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials said. A Pakistani security official on condition of anonymity told NBC News the drone had fired four missiles and struck a compound in the …
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Teen arrested in mob assault on 2 reporters in Norfolk, Va.
Thu May 3, 2012 4:55 PM EDT
A 16-year-old boy was charged Thursday in connection with a mob assault on two reporters in Norfolk, Va., where their newspaper waited two weeks before reporting the incident, police said. The Virginian-Pilot didn’t wait to report the arrest, posting it online shortly after …
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Hunt on for gunman in birdshot-firing spree in Carson, California
Thu May 3, 2012 2:02 PM EDT
The hunt is on around Carson, Calif., for a birdshot-firing gunman believed responsible for at least five shootings in about a week, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says.
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Questions raised over Virginia newspaper's delay in report of attack on reporters
Wed May 2, 2012 7:10 PM EDT
The Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk, Va., waited two weeks before reporting that two white reporters were beaten by a group of young black men. And since the story came out, the city’s police department has defended its handling of the case.
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In UK survey, doctors support denying treatment to smokers, the obese
Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:49 AM EDT
A majority of doctors in a United Kingdom survey supported measures to deny non-emergency medical services to smokers and the obese, The Observer newspaper reported Sunday.
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1 dead, 100 injured in St. Louis tent collapse during violent storm
Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:46 PM EDT
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- A storm blasting through the city blew away a tent outside a downtown bar, leaving one man dead Saturday afternoon, NBC station KSDK reported.
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Police pump tear gas into underground bunker of survivalist suspected in wife, daughter killings
Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:45 PM EDT
Updated at 11:45 p.m. ET: NORTH BEND, Wash. -- King County sheriff and Seattle police SWAT teams are pumping more tear gas into an underground bunker in the Rattlesnake Ridge wilderness area where they believe Peter Keller, the prime suspect in the murders of his wife and daughte …
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Agenda 21: Arizona close to passing anti-UN-sustainability bill
Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:30 PM EDT
Arizona lawmakers appear close to sending to Gov. Jan Brewer a tea party-backed bill that proponents say would stop a United Nations takeover conspiracy but that critics claim could end state and cities’ pollution-fighting efforts and even dismantle the state unemployment o …
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George Zimmerman: Prelude to the shooting of Trayvon Martin
Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:11 PM EDT
SANFORD, Fla. -- A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009. The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Fla., George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his …
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