Category: Social

An estimated $2 million worth of methamphetamine and marijuana was seized in Arizona this week, officials said Friday. The drug haul on Wednesday yielded roughly 200 pounds of meth and 3,500 pounds of weed, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The department collaborated with Customs and Border Protection agents as part […]

A Utah family’s black lab may not have a mighty bark or even a vicious bite, but the pooch proved over the weekend he had what it took to thwart a porch pirate trying to steal something from his owner’s house. Whitney Cahoon said that package thieves have become a common occurrence in her neighborhood in Ogden, Utah, […]

An Ohio sheriff’s deputy was killed and another was injured during a standoff with a barricaded suspect at an apartment complex, according to reports. The scene in Pierce Township, near Cincinnati, was still active early Sunday morning. The incident began just before 7 p.m. Saturday when police responded to a psychiatric call. A male called 911 to […]

Nearly 300 priests and clergy members of the Catholic dioceses in Texas were identified this week for alleged sexual abuse of minors. In total, 14 archdioceses and dioceses in Texas released their lists on Tuesday, making them the latest in a string of disclosures by Catholic Church bodies across the country. The Diocese of Laredo […]

A Minnesota man was cited for allegedly leaving his pet dog outside as below zero temperatures have raided the Midwest. Dang Xiong, 29, left his dog outside in Brooklyn Center on Tuesday when temperatures hit minus 9 degrees, Fox affiliate KMSP-TV reported. Xiong’s dog was reportedly found by officers chained up outside around 3 p.m. Responding officers said […]

Actor Rob Lowe was ‘humiliated’ to find out that a California college board decided to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from its meetings because the phrase ‘one nation under God’ is ‘steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.’ But after much backlash, the Santa Barbara City College board of trustees reversed the decision on […]

Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, reportedly has yet to rule out running for the Oval Office again in 2020. CNN White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny said Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that Clinton told people “as recently as this week” that she isn’t “closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020.” […]

When Chris Crews prepares for church on Sunday mornings, he follows a routine. He rises early. He puts on his church clothes, a button-down shirt paired with blue jeans or khakis. Then, before leaving the house with his wife and two children, he straps a firearm — a 9 mm or a .45 — to […]

Paul Manafort, the onetime campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, made a rare court appearance in Washington, D.C., Friday morning to address allegations lodged by special counsel Robert Mueller that he lied to federal investigators after agreeing to a plea deal. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, citing “the number of court appearances defendant […]

Nearly 2 percent of high school students identify as transgender, and 35 percent of these trans students have attempted suicide in the past year, according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study validates similar findings from smaller clinical and web-based studies that have found transgender students face […]

COVINGTON, Ky. — The Roman Catholic high school that found itself besieged by critics after its students got into a videotaped face off with a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial said it was closed Tuesday “due to threats of violence.” Covington Catholic High School “will reopen when they say it […]

A Texas homeowner in east Houston shot and killed three home invaders wearing ski masks. Three men were killed and two others were injured after dozens of shots were fired by a homeowner in Texas during a home invasion early Sunday, officials said. The incident happened around 1 a.m. in east Houston after five men […]