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
53-year-old William Rhinaman, director of technology at Steubenville High School faces four counts of covering up two teenage boys who arrested for raping a 16-year-old, CNN reported. Rhinaman was jailed Monday and held without bond after being indicted in connection with the case, the Ohio Attorney General's Office said. He faces counts include "evidence tampering, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury in connection with the case."
Elizabeth Smart, the 25-year-old Utah woman, who a decade ago was abducted for 9-months and survived sexual abuse by her captor, has released a memoir "My Story"
