57-year-old Lynne Spalding, who was reported missing on September 21 at San Francisco General Hospital, was found dead by an engineering worker in the medical facility's stairwell 17 days later. Mayor Ed Lee said that "a thorough, independent review" will take place to find out how investigators missed several clues in hopes of finding her.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted in March of two dozen federal charges, which included racketeering, extortion, and the filing of false tax returns. Prosecutors said that he used the mayor's office to enrich himself and associates
The Nobel Prize committee honored the United Nations-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a small organization which dispatched experts to Syria after a gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August.
The Pentagon confirmed that it will not be able to pay death benefits to the families of troops who have been killed in combat because of the current government shutdown
