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Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr is considering whether the multibillion-dollar collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts should be considered city assets that potentially could be sold to cover $15 billion in debt.How much is the art at the DIA worth? Nobody knows exactly, but several billion dollars might well be a low estimate.

As the 83rd Legislative session draws to a close, Texas' elected officials are burning the midnight oil. Whether anything gets done is another story all together.

Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration on May Day that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles.

Remember when Papa John’s, Darden Restaurants and that one Denny’s franchise owner said they were going to pass the costs of health care reform on to customers? Welp, one Seattle company tried to go that very reputation damaging route earlier this year when Paid Sick Leave came to pass.

By privatizing a highly successful state lottery, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie can plug his budget hole and get rid of more state workers and shore up his conservative street cred as he seeks GOP support for a possible Presidential run.

Ted Nugent, stochastic terrorist and scary musical clown from Detroit managed to get into the news again Friday by ripping the Pure Michigan ad campaign.

A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don’t know exactly why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant exploded.

What happened in Oklahoma City 18 years ago on the morning of April 19, 1995 is important. Many of us may have said at one time or another "I would do anything to achieve" some cause near and dear to our hearts, but the vast majority of us wouldn't really do anything. That is the difference between normal people and fanatics.

An attorney for a man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college says his client still doesn't completely understand what he is accused of doing.

Local mixed reactions to the announcement Monday that Seattle Police Department Chief John Diaz has resigned his post.