A South Carolina woman was released from custody after three hours after being booked into jail on one felony count of filing a false police report, Spartanburg police say. 29-year-old Heather Freeman of Spartanburg, South Carolina called in to police in Spartanburg and reported that she had been assaulted and stabbed by a middle-aged Hispanic male […]
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s effort to shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, a day before its first phase was to begin. Late Monday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of 26 states, including Texas, that had sued to stop Obama’s order. Obama had […]
WASHINGTON—A massive winter storm is threatening vast regions of the United States from the South and Midwest to the East Coast. For weeks, winter weather has pummeled the United States’ northern tier, with cumulative snow totals of more than 2 meters (6 ½ feet) in some areas. “It’s getting a little tiring. I love Maine, […]
The U.S. Midwest region and surrounding states have endured increasingly more frequent floods during the last half-century, according to results of a new study. The researchers, affiliated with the University of Iowa (UI) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), based their findings on daily records collected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 774 […]