17 Oct 2018
AUSTIN, Texas A man convicted of a hate crime in setting fire to a mosque in Texas was sentenced to almost 25 years in prison on Wednesday, U.S. authorities said, adding he acted with hatred and malice.
12 Oct 2018
Washington became the 20th U.S. state to abolish capital punishment when its Supreme Court struck down the death penalty on Thursday, saying in a unanimous decision that its application was arbitrary and racially biased.
12 Oct 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court with new Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued two decisions on Thursday that helped clear the way for Tennessee to execute an inmate convicted of murdering two men in 1983.
11 Oct 2018
When Hurricane Michael barreled into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with 155-mph (249-kph) sustained winds, it defied forecasts made just two days beforehand, its wind speeds doubling since Monday and coming in just short of the highest category of intensity.
10 Oct 2018
Oct 10 When Hurricane Michael barreled into the
Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with 155-mph (249-kph) sustained
winds, it defied forecasts made just two days beforehand, its
wind speeds doubling since Monday and coming in just short of
the highest category of intensity.
09 Oct 2018
After making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Hurricane Michael is forecast to sweep across the Carolinas, delivering a fresh blow to an area still trying to recover from the ravages of Hurricane Florence last month.
09 Oct 2018
After making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Hurricane Michael is forecast to sweep across the Carolinas, delivering a fresh blow to an area still trying to recover from the ravages of Hurricane Florence last month.
08 Oct 2018
Tropical Storm Michael battered parts of Mexico and Cuba with powerful winds and drenching rains on Sunday as it strengthened in the Caribbean on a path that could see it slam into the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week with hurricane force, officials said. | Video
08 Oct 2018
Oct 8 Tropical Storm Michael is on track to hit
the Florida Panhandle midweek as a Category 2 hurricane packing
100 miles per hour (161 km/h) or stronger winds, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center (NHC) said early Monday in an
advisory.
03 Oct 2018
AUSTIN, Texas Peggy Sue Gerron, whose name has echoed in the annals of rock 'n' roll for six decades as the crush in the Buddy Holly classic song "Peggy Sue," has died at the age of 78 in Lubbock, Texas, where she and Holly went to high school, officials said.