At least three people were killed in Missouri as a severe storm and numerous tornadoes ripped through the Midwest leaving ...

Donald "Slick" Watts, a former NBA player, has died at the age of 73 after becoming one of the league's Cinderella stories of ...

LAWMAKERS HAVE ALSO PROPOSED REPEALING THE DEATH PENALTY BEFORE DURING THE LAST GENERAL ASSEMBLY, A BILL WAS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, THOUGH IT DID NOT GET TO THE FLOOR FOR A ...

Senators voted to advance the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday as the deadline for a government shutdown inches closer. By a margin of 62-38, senators voted to advance the measure.

Under a bill headed to the Idaho House, adults who sexually abuse children age 12 and younger in Idaho could be sentenced to death. Similar to his bill that stalled last year, House Bill 380 ...

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he plans to vote to advance a House-passed six-month government funding bill, despite the strong ...

Wild footage captured the moment an American Airlines passenger who allegedly believed evil spirits were following him began throwing punches at flight attendants in a bizarre outburst that one ...

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed says he has been targeted with thousands of death threats from Michael ... Related Stories Late Night TV Bill Maher Couldn't Get Josh Shapiro To Admit He's ...

After the bill died on a 34-35 vote, there was an attempt to shuffle $148 million to the prison fund for future use, but that also was narrowly rejected. Rhoden later created a prison project task ...

When explaining why the bill died on the House calendar by Wednesday's deadline, House Education Chairman Rob Roberson, R-Starkville, and portability advocate Rep. Jansen Owen, R-Poplarville ...

After the bill died on a 34-35 vote, there was an attempt to shuffle $148 million to the prison fund for future use, but that also was narrowly rejected. The South Dakota State Penitentiary on ...