Two African American teenage girls have been charged with felony murder after killing an Uber driver in DC during an armed carjacking. Instead of fleeing the scene, the girls were caught on camera calmly looking for their cellphone inside the vehicle right next to the victim’s dead body. The girls are only 13 and 15 years old Thegatewaypundit.com reports: Their Pakistani victim, Mohammad Anwar,... 

Multiple tornadoes slammed western and central Massachusetts, destroying buildings, flipping vehicles and leaving four people dead and dozens injured. At least three tornadoes struck the city of Springfield, Mass., alone, with a fourth unconfirmed twister possibly touching down in the city, Mayor Dominic J. Sarno said. Many of those storms also blasted the areas surrounding the city of more than 150,000... 

Reps. Dan Brady, right, R-Bloomington, and Roger Eddy, R-Hutsonville confer on the House floor during a session at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn defended a massive increase in state income taxes passed by lawmakers Wednesday and promised to quickly sign the measure to help heal the state’s ailing finances. Lawmakers worked overnight to pass the increase to raise... 

Nadine Sweeney shows her support during a Tea Party rally at the Daley Plaza on Thursday. Sally Sinacore, a retired paralegal from Palatine, came to the Daley Plaza Tea Party rally wrapped in an American flag that had draped the coffin of her father, a World War II veteran. “I’m here because I want us to become fiscally more conservative. We cannot take this heavy spending any longer,”...