Last Friday NCAA president Mark Emmert informed Penn State that the organization would investigate the Jerry Sandusky scandal for possible rules violations.
For the third time in three months, a flash mob suddenly appeared at a 7-Eleven in Montgomery County, Maryland, robbing the convenience store in about one minute.
Young adults who take oral antibiotics for acne may be more likely to get sore throats, according to a new study.
Amidst allegations that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys, a Senate committee plans to hear whether stronger laws are needed to protect children from abuse and neglect.
The inexperienced quarterback will face the Patriots on Monday Night.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pushing back against a report that said the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), a major backer of residential mortgages, could require a bailout.
Overweight adults eat less often than people in the normal body weight range, but still take in more calories and are less active over the course of the day, according to a U.S. study.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The sign outside Bernie Fine's home in nearby Fayetteville, N.Y., symbolizes the difference between the two recent college sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the country -- and which many say have no basis for comparison.
An intercepted memo from lobbying firm CLGC to the ABA outlines a smear campaign on Occupy Wall Street involving opposition research and negative narratives against both OWS and sympathetic Democrats. The memo (full text) reveals Wall Street anxiety over the 2012 election, and the threat a Tea Party/OWS alliance would pose.
When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.
A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a U.S. government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry.
The Pennsylvania charity, Second Mile, founded by former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has decided to fold, following the Penn State sex scandal.
When Ray Lane took over as chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co a year ago, he was looking forward to working with longtime associate Leo Apotheker, who had just been appointed CEO to repair the damage done by the messy departure of Mark Hurd.
Former Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno has lung cancer, his son said in a statement. Scott Paterno told The Associated Press in a statement that his father has a treatable form of the pulmonary disease and that he is currently being treated.
Thanksgiving 2011 is less than a week away, but it is never too late to make plans. We have put together a guide of events, restaurants and volunteer opportunities for the holiday:
Acquaintances of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez say that he needed to kill the anti-Christ President Barack Obama.
J.M. Smucker has issued a voluntary recall for thousands of 16-ounce jars of its Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter Chunky because they might possibly be contaminated with salmonella.
The cause and manner of death for Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of Diaspora, is still pending Amy Hart, chief medical examiner at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in San Francisco told the International Business Times on Thursday.
The suspect, who has been arrested for last Friday night's White House shooting,is suspected to be linked to Occupy Rally.
The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.
A bipartisan and bicameral group of 45 Senators and 102 Representatives have banded together to encourage the budget deficit super committee to go big.
The eviction of the protesters from Zuccotti Park Monday night resembled a host body convulsively rejecting an unwanted implant. Occupy Wall Street lambasts, rightly, many social and economic ills. But is it native to its home base?
