Reinvigorated Republicans hoping to win back New Hampshire's Statehouse next year will be pushing something Democrats want to avoid in an election year: controversy.
Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.
A spokeswoman for Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says he's calling the tree on the Capitol's front lawn a "Christmas" tree this holiday season.
Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year — a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.
Some Christians in Kentucky are angry over the governor's yuletide terminology.
Amid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing "stealth jihad" that threatens democracy and free speech.
The Providence Journal says it's "saddened" some readers have been offended by an editorial cartoon depicting a mixed-race Rhode Island lawmaker as a shoeshine boy.
Towering on a hilltop overlooking the Atlantic, the 160-foot-high bronze statue depicting a family rising triumphantly from a volcano is supposed to symbolize Africa's renaissance.
Police in Philadelphia say a white officer who came to work with cornrows was ordered by a black superior to get a haircut because the braids violated department standards.
Police in Philadelphia say a white officer who came to work with cornrows was ordered by a black superior to get a haircut because the braids violated department standards. The Philadelphia Daily News reported Monday that Officer Thomas Strain was put on desk duty this month because of the braids, even though the paper reported dozens of black officers wear cornrows.
At least one critic in the western Colorado town of Silt said a new sculpture of a bare-bottom rock climber is exposing the public to a little too much art. The statue shows a climber of undetermined gender scaling a cliff. It stands at a downtown intersection.
The hotel review may sound too good — citing obscure details like the type of faucets — or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating of an otherwise popular location.
An African music star who ignited worldwide controversy among fellow Muslims with one of his albums was in the city Saturday to perform at an arts festival aimed at spreading a deeper understanding of Islam.
The principal of a Utah middle school has been asked to apologize for forcing a kilt-wearing student to change his clothes.
An art work that created controversy by making fun of nations across Europe will be removed from EU headquarters by the Czech artist to protest the political upheaval in his own country.
The California Republican Party and a Democratic state senator are denouncing as anti-Semitic an online poster that promoted last week's nationwide "tea parties."
North Korea has accused rival South Korea of sickening its players with "adulterated foodstuff" ahead of last week's World Cup qualifier and wants soccer's world governing body to investigate the claim.
Coach Marcus Borden used to bow his head and drop to one knee when his football team prayed. But the Supreme Court on Monday ended the practice when it refused to hear the high school coach's appeal of a school district ban on employees joining a student-led prayer.
Criticism of Pope Benedict XVI has come from various quarters — Muslims, Jews, members of his own flock.
The BBC will not televise Britain's biggest dog show for the first time in more than 40 years after a controversy about canine inbreeding.
The firing of a college administrator over her criticism of gay rights has sparked a debate about free speech and whether universities have the right to regulate what employees say outside of their jobs.
No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School.
A Florida school board voted late Monday night to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader at a majority black high school, despite opposition from a black board member who said the school's namesake was a "terrorist and racist."
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader — and the namesake of what is now a majority African-American high school.
A BBC documentary claiming that decades of inbreeding has led to serious health problems in some pedigree dogs prompted a riposte Wednesday from the organizer of Britain's biggest dog show, which complained to television regulators.
"Anger is growing among Americans - who say less money should be spent on the country's overseas military campaigns and more on tackling the country's domestic problems. U.S.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California first lady Maria Shriver, Tiger Woods and others are named on Santa's naughty list in a fun display in a window of Sacramento's Citizen Hotel.
MILWAUKEE -- Lakers forward Ron Artest said an open letter to Tiger Woods that was posted on his Web site was meant to encourage the golf superstar because Artest believes media coverage of Woods' mistakes has been unfair.
Business interests and US partisan politics are behind the furor over leaked emails that have whipped up a controversy at the Copenhagen climate talks, Canadian experts say.
New York's bike lanes have become sources of civic pride and controversy as of late. The city has been adding hundreds of miles of lanes, routes and paths in the last few years, thrilling much of the city's growing number of bicycle commuters.
BALTIMORE -- Another member of the jury in the trial of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon told 11 News she believes the mayor got off easy and was disappointed Dixon didn't testify.
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Democratic former state Rep. Sean Ramaley sat quietly in a Harrisburg courtroom Wednesday as his attorneys and prosecutors chose jurors for his trial.
Getting scant coverage --- while stirring controversy, especially with active and former U.S.
A battle is brewing between some parents and the Mooresville Consolidated School Corp.
BALTIMORE -- One of the developers who gave Mayor Sheila Dixon gift cards testified at her trial Monday, saying the cards were meant for needy families and not the mayor herself.
Scott Roeder, the killer of Dr. George Tiller, to have his attorneys request trial moved out Sedgewick County, Kansas, in light of the media blitz regarding abortion doctor's murder.....
When the editors of the trade publication Publisher's Weekly announced their list of the 10 best books of the year on Monday, outrage flared across the Internet: Not a single book by a woman made the cut.
Rihanna tells ABC's Diane Sawyer she feels ashamed about falling for Chris Brown and says she left him as an example to other young women who might be in abusive relationship.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina assistant attorney general was fired this week after police said he was found in a cemetery with a teenage stripper.
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Jeffry Picower, a prominent Palm Beach billionaire businessman and philanthropist with ties to Bernard Madoff, was found at the bottom of his pool at his residence on Sunday.
A writer wrote that he only listened to Fox news "because they told him what he wanted to hear." A recent letter praises Fox and stated that Fox's Hannity, Rush, and Beck are scandal free.
Word on the street? Meghan McCain has big breasts. She's also something of a homebody, spending her nights in comfort clothes (sweatpants and a tank top) while perusing the latest bio on the life of famed pop-artist, Andy Warhol. How do we know this? Twitter, of course.
Rush Limbaugh won't be buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams after all.
Is science fiction "feminized"? Do women exist to destroy all that is cool and inspiring about space opera? That's what one blogger argues in a post that's stirred up controversy this week. But is his opinion really the problem?
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Sheboygan's mayor will be punished for drunken comments that he made on a YouTube video, but he will keep his job.
"The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize," DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO.
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Dozens of people are now filing complaints against Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan to get him removed from office, but their efforts may not count.
"Politics, Morality and a President: an American View," focuses on what it meant to American Catholics to have President Obama speak at the University of Notre Dame and be honored with a law degree
BOSTON -- Pharmaceutical companies are paying doctors in Massachusetts and across the country stunning amounts of money, Team 5 Investigates reported Thursday.
BOSTON -- A proposal to honor the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is sparking controversy and could end up receiving millions of federal dollars, Team 5 Investigates reported Thursday night.