Hurricane Matthew battered Northeast Florida with driving rain and storm surge Friday afternoon as it barreled up the Atlantic coastline, with officials in Georgia warning people along the coast to evacuate immediately.
Settlement talks that one attorney describes as "fruitful" could resolve a lawsuit that Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and others filed against the city of Baton Rouge over their arrests during protests of a deadly police shooting.
Over the past two years, universities have embraced nap pods and nap rooms to address what California State University calls “the sleep crisis on college campuses.”
The mayor of tiny Tybee Island, Georgia, was so worried about his constituents that he was calling them personally, pleading with them to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Matthew.
California's dysfunctional death penalty faces a fate in November that seems fitting: voters can put it out of its misery, or fix it so it does what it promises.
A Facebook Live video shows a man and woman later discovered to have overdosed on heroin lying unconscious on a Memphis, Tennessee, sidewalk as a crowd of people mocks and films them.
