Anti-war protesters from across the country will march on downtown Chicago on Sunday, hoisting signs, chanting slogans and observing veterans returning their war medals as world leaders open the NATO summit.
Nan Wigmore brought her walker and packed her sign, “Grateful Great Grandmas Circle The Wagons, Support Occupy,” and rode on a bus for some three days, sleeping in the same clothes, to make it to the NATO protests in Chicago.
Prosecutors said Sunday they have charged two more people as part their investigation into activists who planned to take part in demonstrations at the two-day NATO summit.
President Barack Obama will dliver the commencement address s commencement address on Monday will come one year after the deadliest tornado in the United States in six decades killed 161 people.
The bodies of four people missing after a boat crash on the Mississippi River in Iowa were found Sunday within 100 yards of the crash site, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. None were wearing a life vest.
Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, a day after becoming an early first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has collected millions of dollars' worth of surplus military equipment that is intended for law-enforcement use and distributed some of the gear to non-police agencies while preparing to sell other property as a budget booster.
Mother Nature gave firefighters a small reprieve Saturday from her incessant winds, allowing them to modestly trim the week-long fire that has torched thousands of acres and forced small communities to evacuate in central Arizona.
Lawmakers are sending seven constitutional amendments to voters this fall, ranging from a declaration of state sovereignty to a new way to send endowment money to the public schools.
More than 25 staffers of The Arizona Republic were recognized at the Arizona Press Club's annual awards party Saturday with two taking home "Journalist of the Year" awards.
To activists trying to elevate awareness of human trafficking, the ads at Backpage.com are, at best, a conduit for prostitution. But some take a more malignant view, suggesting that the ads are a way for Village Voice Media to profit off teens who are being trafficked and sexually exploited.
