Mexican authorities were counting votes Monday in a high-profile state election involving President Felipe Calderon's sister.
A Colombian drug kingpin who pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States was sentenced to 22 years in prison, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The man accused of trying to force his way into the cockpit of a commercial airliner bound for San Francisco made his first court appearance Tuesday, during which federal prosecutors argued that the suspect is a risk to flee and should be denied bail.
On the surface, the foreclosure crisis seems to be easing. The number of foreclosure notices filed during the first three months of 2011 fell 27% compared with the first quarter of 2010, according to a report from RealtyTrac released Thursday.
The usual suspects led the list of top cities for foreclosure filings during the last three months.
Police in California have found a plastic-wrapped body that might be tied to a bizarre saga involving several homicides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Police in Hercules, California, were searching Wednesday for a man whose elderly father was bludgeoned to death -- possibly by a suspect in three other homicides in the same area.
A news conference for the just-formed Tea Party Caucus featured several citizens talking about their vision for America.
It's become apparent that the president and his party want to run in November against George W. Bush and Denny Hastert and the alleged mess they left him. The problem with that strategy is the former president and former House speaker are long gone from the D.C. scene.
Cities and other municipalities are in a world of budgetary hurt. Is a wave of bankruptcies on the way?
My mother died last week. Mary Elizabeth Rollins was 91 and had lived a glorious and full life.
My mother died last week. Mary Elizabeth Rollins was 91 and had lived a glorious and full life.
My mother died last week. Mary Elizabeth Rollins was 91 and had lived a glorious and full life.
The jig is up. For years, politicians have been playing what amounts to a multi-trillion-dollar shell game with state and local pensions. They've doled out lush retiree benefits to their heavily unionized workforces, knowing that they could shove the cost for those benefits onto future generations of taxpayers.
Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project
The conspiracy theorists jumped all over Jeff Gordon's victory in the Brickyard 400 in 1994. They floated rumors that somehow, someway, NASCAR had given Gordon, the hometown hero, The Call in Sprint Cup's inaugural race at the storied Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The latest hit to the economy could come from state houses and city halls across the nation, which are in their worst budget crisis in years.
Washington's close ally in Latin America is railing against judges and journalists who question his political record
SI.com: First Personupdated: Wed Mar 28 2007 09:44:00
At 26 the Indians' ace is beginning his seventh big league season (career record: 81-56) and is a major reason SI picked Cleveland to win the AL Central. One of only two prominent African-American starting pitchers in the majors -- the Marlins' Dontrelle Willis is the other -- Sabathia has called the scarcity of black major leaguers "a crisis." Personally, though, times are good. Set to earn $8.75 million this year, the Vallejo, Calif., native is married to his high school sweetheart, has two kids and he's getting giddy: The season opener is just days away.
LIKE tuberculosis and measles, child labor is making a comeback in the U.S. From New York to California, employers are breaking the law by hiring children of 7 to 17 who put in long, hard hours and...
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