As more and more black renters began moving into mostly white Antioch, Calif., a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.
A man enraged by a noisy family sitting near him in a movie theater on Christmas night shot the father of the family in the arm, police said.
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants and oil refineries near national parks.
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the city is implementing the plan because sexuality "has a lot to do with quality of life and our happiness."
An arts collective and a nonprofit bring activism and expression to a parking space near you
A small town in northeast Georgia has bought a strip club, but it's not planning to get into the adult entertainment business.
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