A new round of recruits graduated from the police academy on Thursday. Over 1,500 graduates attended the ceremony at Madison Square Garden, the largest class since 2005.
Hospitals in California that served a greater proportion of black patients were more likely to shutter their emergency departments in the past decade than hospitals with fewer black patients, according to a new study.
Retailing giant Walmart recalled baby formula Enfamil this week after an infant who was given the formula died on Sunday.
A Year in review of crime in the city.
Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in guard tower in Afghanistan on Oct. 3 with what the Army described as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Eight of his fellow soldiers have been charged.
An ESPN radio host is in hot water after referring to two WNBA teams as the Los Angeles Lesbians and the Phoenix Dyke-ury.
The top 10 YouTube videos of 2011. Ms. Rebecca Black scored the top spot with her song, Friday.
Amid the holidays and making your list and checking it twice, what better time to consider one of 3 stocking-stuffer stocks that you can place by the chimney with care: General Electric (GE), CVS (CVS), Intel (INTC). These 3 companies are the kind of stock that you can buy for child's college fund, and in 10 years, you'll be really glad you did.
Amazon released software update 6.2.1 Wednesday for the Kindle Fire following a number of complaints about the device. We took a closer look at three major improvements to the Kindle Fire from Amazon's software update. We also can tell you how to install the new update.
On Wednesday, Henry DiCarlo, weekday meteorologist for the KTLA 5 Morning News in Los Angeles, went out to do a live interview in downtown Los Angeles' Union Station. However, as he was getting ready to interview, producers radioed in that DiCarlo also had to cover the regular weather broadcast, which caused the weatherman to throw a fit.
The Shroud of Turin -- a cloth that allegedly has an imprint of Jesus Christ's face -- could not possibly be faked with the technology available during that time period, according to a team of Italian scientists.
Ekaterina Rybolovleva is one lucky 22-year-old. Her father Dmitriy Rybolovlev just bought her a 6,744-sq-ft apartment near Central Park for $88 million in November.
India's food inflation eased sharply in the year to December 10 on lower prices of rice, cereals and vegetables and benefiting from a higher statistical base a year ago, indicating sticky headline inflation could be moderating.
The family of missing Kansas student Aisha Khan said their prayers have been answered: she was found unharmed and wasn't abducted, Overland Park police told the media on Wednesday.
A recent report by Department of Environment and Conservation, Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs, shows that the world's largest herd of reindeer, the George River caribou herd in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec, has shrunken in size significantly.
Aisha Khan, a teenager from Olathe, Kansas, who went missing on Dec. 16, from the Edwards campus of the University of Kansas has been found, said Overland Park police officials. According to a statement released late on Wednesday evening, she was not abducted and had left of her own free will.
Aussie Teen Jailed for 13 Years for Stabbing Murder of an International Student in Melbourne
Man-made assets in space have oft proven their worth, over a number of situations and through difficult times. Now, however, it seems there could be yet another use for them. The European Space Agency (ESA) and its satellites can apparently help decide how much irrigation vineyards require and at what times.
American multinational aerospace and Defense Corporation, Boeing has announced that they are still reviewing their operations in Wichita thereby refuelling speculations of a possible closure of the plant.
Federal land managers said on Wednesday they have decided to scale back a disputed roundup of wild horses in Nevada next month and to postpone the planned castration of stallions as part of the operation.
Cargo traffic at the Port of Los Angeles was disrupted on Wednesday after longshoremen discovered a shipping container with the word bomb spray painted on it, a spokesman for the facility said.
An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his semen that he advertises over the Internet.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Tuesday in an effort to expand her probe into the companies' mortgage foreclosure practices.
History was made on a Virginia Beach pier on Wednesday when two women sailors, one just home from 80 days at sea, became what was believed to be the first same-sex couple to share the Navy's traditional first kiss.
Erika Ross Smith, a former Golden State Warriors employee, has filed a lawsuit against basketball star Monta Ellis for sending unwanted pictures of his genitals.
The raging psychopath that murdered a woman to death with a hammer then carved out her heart and lungs in a Queens apartment has been jailed for 29 years. Huwang Chen, the assailant, followed Qian Wu into her apartment and beat her with a hammer before stabbing her repeatedly then ending her life by choking her with a plastic rope.
A judge has ordered that a man accused of burning Robbie Middleton in a deadly gasoline attack when he was a boy pay the family more than $150 billion in damages.
Usually around this time of year, Santa Claus is preparing his journey from the North Pole to deliver presents to good little girls and boys. However, Santa made a pit stop in Dallas, Tex. on Tuesday to save a man from a burning truck after a two-car collision was caught on video.
A Canadian charity, appropriately named EARS, is offering to help a Rocky Mountain town deal with its bunny problem, promising to neuter and spay the unwanted rabbits rather than let the city carry out its trap-and-cull proposal.
Which areas of the United States are likely to receive a White Christmas and which are not?
