4th of July News

A St. Paul man was charged today with shooting a 14-year-old boy on Independence Day after investigators linked a bullet that shot the victim to a rifle and shell casings found at the man's house.

It was a Fourth of July to remember in Casco. Thanks to the fundraising efforts of the American Legion Thibaudeau-Drossart Post 319, Casco, a new veterans memorial honoring 'all veterans of all wars' was unveiled next to the Casco Community Hall on Independence Day.

The local band Timeless Highway is in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Taylor Farm Park, followed by Paulding Countya s annual fireworks display.

Less than an hour into the Fourth of July, an 18 year old man was stabbed inside an Allentown home.

Protesting taxes on Independence Day might sound unpatriotic. But that same sentiment which led to the American Revolution, was present in a Tea Party at the annual "Wet & Wild" parade Saturday.

Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today signed Senate Bill 1088 expanding the ability of local police agencies to use money generated by fines stemming from convictions for driving under the influence.

"My son passed on the Fourth of July." Words no mother wants to hear - let alone, say out loud.

Alabama state troopers report they made 152 drunken driving arrests and issued slightly more than 3,000 speeding tickets during the long Fourth of July holiday weekend.

An Overland Park community held its annual July Fourth block party. For 10 years the Colony West neighborhood near 101st and Nall had a block party on Independence Day.

Police and dog enforcement officials plan to file charges against a Versailles Borough pit bull owner after the dog allegedly attacked a woman over the weekend.

A Douglasville man was killed at the start of the Fourth of July holiday travel period in a car crash on Interstate 20 just outside of the Carroll County line near Lee Road Friday.

Flags flew at half-staff this week in California's state Capitol. No, not for Michael Jackson.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden talks with soldiers at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009.

For some the 4th of July means fireworks and festivities, but for Richard Rogers, it's much more.

Through the end, shoregoers had fun in the sun this holiday weekend, finally. The annual Independence Day weekend parade in Barnegat Light on Sunday night had roadside watchers seeing green.

Township residents looking to mark Independence Day with a bang ended up with a bust after police confiscated more than a thousand pounds of illegal fireworks before they could be detonated, officials said Tuesday.

The state fire marshal says six people were hurt in Ohio by fireworks or related explosions around the Fourth of July, down from 11 during last year's holiday period.

It was a fabulous Fourth of July from vaunted veterans to a gaggle of gangsters while Sawdust Days and fireworks capped the holiday in Oshkosh.

The Waledac spam/botnet may be dwindling, but that didn't stop its disseminators utilising this weekend's 4th of July celebrations to spread malicious executables, according to Symantec .

The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his pink boxer shorts said Saturday he was glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan a ' especially for the Fourth of July.