A generous mystery man paid off nearly $50,000 worth of layaway at a Walmart in Pennsylvania, sending a woman named "Santa" to deliver the check, local media reported on Thursday.
The men's cross-country team at Amherst College in Massachusetts has been suspended from team activities after a number of messages came to light that administrators called racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
The governing board of Iowa's public universities is expected to decide Monday whether to take action against Iowa State University's president for his use of school planes.
The Texas attorney general is criticizing a school district's decision to remove a portion of a poster that included a biblical verse recited by Linus in the film "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Attorney General Ken Paxton says in a statement that the so-called Merry Christmas law adopted in 2013 means schools can't "silence a biblical reference to Christmas." He said Thursday that the decision by officials in Killeen, north of Austin, is an "attack on religious liberty." But KWTX-TV reports that Killeen administrators argue school employees are not permitted to impose their personal beliefs on students.
Money is money, whether it's cash in our hands, plastic cards at checkout counters or encrypted bits of data coursing between computers on the internet.
Blankets of snow and driving rain forced hundreds of flight depays and cancellations and made for messy morning commutes on Monday as a storm that dumped several inches of snow on the Midwest made its way east.
Hundreds of people paid their last respects during a funeral and burial Sunday for a Georgia police officer shot and killed with his best friend and fellow officer last week.
An off-duty deputy sheriff in Ohio died after a bullet fired from a gun flew through a wall and struck him inside his home accidentally, investigators said Monday.
A juror's Facebook posts during a federal civil rights trial could jeopardize a $2 million verdict awarded to a man who claimed he was illegally strip-searched by a Milwaukee police officer.
The opening of Dylann Roof's federal death penalty trial saw raw, emotional testimony from a survivor of the shooting, grizzly crime scene images and a catalog of racial hatred from Roof's videotaped confession and journal.
