A shirtless man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after witnesses saw him attach a .45-caliber handgun to his belt near a Secret Service police booth outside the White House. Upon being taken into custody, the man, Christopher Briggs, reportedly told officers he was "was only going to fire a couple of shots if no one confronted me."
For the past 54 years, grocery store owner Margaretta "Marge" Wolf has held her own against a big-box store encroachment that has left her one of the last remaining mom-and-pop shop operators in her neck of Wisconsin.
Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy serves as a Rorschach test for the American public. For conservatives, it’s a triumph of permissive gun laws and a victory over the liberal media, which had been unfairly rooting for the dead kid all along. For liberals, it's a tragic and glaring example of the gaps that plague our criminal justice system. For people of color, it’s a vivid reminder that we must always be deferential to white people, or face the very real chance of getting killed.
A police investigation into the beating of a man outside a Hudson Valley bar revealed that the victim was assaulted by three women for refusing to buy them a drink.
A West Seattle woman who had a couple of item stolen from her car last month quickly discovered that the thief had inadvertently exchanged the loot for something of his: A black smartphone.
In an odd twist to the old "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" routine, a Texas man incited panic after he entered a movie theater in Bryan and began making "gun gestures" and "shooting noises" in the general vicinity of patrons.
For several days now, CNN’s extensive coverage of the George Zimmerman trial has shouldered aside the more important Egypt story on the network’s U.S. channel.
