LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, ...
ST. LOUIS--Brad Erwin was in junior high that day in August 1990, when a tornado destroyed much of his hometown of Plainfield. Ill., including two schools.
Twenty-nine people died during the storm. Erwin believes the death toll could have been ...
WASHINGTON -- Weeks before the world -- and apparently President Barack Obama himself -- heard about the details of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, top people in his administration started planning how to stage-manage the release of the ...
WASHINGTON -- As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the Fifth Amendment ...
Military lawyers for former CIA captives held at Guantanamo are appealing to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to intervene in what they describe as deteriorating conditions and leadership failures on a scale similar to the Vietnam War's My Lai ...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Barack Obama's nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he'll seek further changes to Senate rules that ...