A lot of Chicago Cubs fans have waited a long time to see them win the championship. In this case, it feels like forever. How many people can say they went to the very first World Series game at Wrigley ...
Read More »Cruz suggests leaving vacancy on Supreme Court
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is raising the possibility that Republicans would decline to fill the Supreme Court’s vacancy if Democrat Hillary Clinton is elected president. Cruz is the second Republican to suggest that the GOP will simply block any Democratic ...
Read More »Missouri candidate accused of sex assault won’t be charged
A Missouri House candidate accused of sexual assault by another candidate running for a different district will not be charged because evidence does not support the allegation, a special prosecutor announced Tuesday. Cora Faith Walker, of Ferguson, had alleged that ...
Read More »Lawsuit challenges Denver’s sweeps of the homeless
When Jerry Burton’s sleeping bag and tent were removed by city workers from his campsite near a rapidly developing area close to downtown Denver, he was able to start over again with backup gear he keeps hidden for emergencies — ...
Read More »Company asks pipeline protesters to leave North Dakota land
The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Tuesday that the dozens of protesters who have camped on company-owned land since the weekend are trespassing and that “lawless behavior will not be tolerated.” Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners said in ...
Read More »New 3D technology raises hopes for the coldest of cold cases
The faces are haunting. They stare, straight ahead, unblinking and made of malleable clay. There are fourteen total, all busts of the missing, the unidentified, the murdered. The forgotten. These faces appeared before law enforcement, University of South Florida experts ...
Read More »‘Jackie’ says PTSD hampers memory of sex assault, aftermath
The woman who claimed she was brutally gang raped in a story by Rolling Stone magazine that was later retracted said in a video played in court that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, which makes it difficult to recall ...
Read More »Missouri says reporter doesn’t have right to see executions
A reporter suing over Missouri’s refusal to allow him to witness an execution isn’t constitutionally guaranteed a right to see someone put to death, the state argued in asking a federal judge to throw out the case. The state, in ...
Read More »Authorities investigating Berkeley vote fraud allegations
The FBI and St. Louis County prosecutors are investigating allegations of absentee ballot voter fraud involving the mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley, a newspaper reported Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that it obtained emails and other ...
Read More »Fight over Vanderbilts’ Breakers mansion goes to high court
The Rhode Island Supreme Court is stepping into a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several well-known mansions in Newport. The disagreement centers on whether the group should be allowed ...
Read More »‘Serial’ star Adnan Syed asks to be released from jail
A defendant awaiting retrial for the slaying of his high school girlfriend and whose story was the center of a popular podcast is asking to be released from prison. Justin Brown, a lawyer representing Adnan Syed, wrote in a motion ...
Read More »