The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money _ a financial meltdown that could mean no paychecks or pension benefits and even deeper cuts in municipal services.
A Saudi man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker, according to a court documents filed Monday.
A former yeshiva teacher has pleaded guilty to charges he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy he met while working as a counselor for a camp run by a religious school in Lakewood, N.J.
An estate planning lawyer who pleaded guilty to using the identities of terminally ill people to obtain tens of millions of dollars has told a federal judge he is innocent and entitled to his day in court.
Comments made by the judge who presided over Casey Anthony's criminal trial raise questions about whether she can get a fair defamation hearing in state court in Orlando, her attorneys said in filings for her bankruptcy case.
The U.S. is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday.
Four of the world's biggest retailers agreed to sign a pact to improve safety at garment factories in Bangladesh nearly three weeks after more than 1,100 workers died in a building collapse in the country.
An associate choreographer who worked on Michael Jackson's planned comeback concerts testified Monday that she didn't see any signs that the pop superstar was ill or might die in the final days of his life.
Immigration activists are calling on President Barack Obama to end deportations of immigrants who might be eligible for legal status under a new immigration bill.
Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States face a far greater philosophical dilemma _ what to do with all the money in places where an improving economy has suddenly created a surplus in revenues?
The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money _ a financial meltdown that could mean no paychecks for workers, no pension benefits and even deeper cuts in services.
Records reveal the Cleveland man charged with holding three women captive for about a decade had been accused of threatening his neighbors, attacking his common law wife and of committing violations during his career as a school bus driver.
A medical student who witnessed the shooting that wounded 19 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans said Monday the gunman appeared to be firing in a controlled manner, but it wasn't clear if he was trying to hit specific people.
