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Friends of an air racer and movie stunt pilot whose plane crashed into the edge of the grandstand at a Reno, Nevada air show Friday night said the pilot, Jimmy Leeward, 74, of Ocala, Fla., was a skilled airman and member of a tight-knit flying community.

Despite once famously being part of the Palace Brawl during the closing minutes of a 2004 Pacers-Pistons game, Ron Artest is now striving for peace. World Peace. And thus he has changed his name.

It was almost your typical boy’s night out: drinking, a jaunt to the strip club and an ATM run for cash -- except that two Colorado men chose to do it with their dead friend’s corpse.

It was supposed to be a purely offensive and tactical move on the part of President Barack Obama and his campaign, but it has turned into quite the mockery-inducing blunder.

Ron Paul has at least one celebrity firmly in his camp: singer Barry Manilow.

The idea is out there: Republicans on Capitol Hill considering a ceiling for defense cuts mandated by the deficit-reduction super committee. If it becomes a reality, however, it would not exceed $150 billion over 10 years.

Prince Harry turns 27 Thursday, but the Royal ginger won't be partying it up too hard. Instead, he'll be working.

A Verizon technician installing high-speed Internet cables in Brooklyn, N.Y. was electrocuted and set on fire when he accidentally touched a hidden power line Wednesday.

A brilliant bright light seen bolting across the Southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

Todd Palin has issued a full-force criticism of a new book about his wife, Sarah, stating that the book is full of disgusting lies and condemning author Joe McGinniss.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was forced to slide down an emergency chute to evacuate a flight at Washington's Dulles International Airport due to a fire. She was evacuated safely, officials said.

More than 50 new alien planets- - including one super-Earth that could potentially support life -- have been found in the largest extrasolar planet haul announced at one time, astronomers say.

An Ohio woman said Tuesday she believes her Middle Eastern appearance is the cause for her being in police custody, which included a strip-search and interrogation, for at least four hours at Detroit's airport on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

For what should have been Amy Winehouse's 28th birthday, MTV Wednesday morning aired Body and Soul, a duet with jazz legend Tony Bennett.

A large wildfire ignited in George Bush Park in west Houston Tuesday afternoon threatened the evacuation of adjacent neighborhoods when ash fell from it. However, the latest update from officials indicate that no neighborhoods were in danger and no injuries were reported, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The name of a Sept. 11 victim etched on the just newly-opened memorial in Lower Manhattan was misspelled, his family told NBC New York.

While Paul Krugman stirred up controversy with his Sept. 11 blog, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R, Texas, followed suit, writing a blogpost on Sunday titled, Ask the right questions and face the truth.

A defunct satellite poised to fall back to Earth will make its final plunge during the last week of September, NASA officials say.

You know what you do when you're in a race? Go for the top dog. Republican presidential candidates did exactly that in Monday night's CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. En masse, they gunned for front-runner Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

President Barack Obama with former President George W. Bush commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack that took place in New York City, Washington, D.C. and in Shanksvillle, Pa. on Sept. 11, 2001.

The discovery of a set of 2-million-year-old fossils could be a gamechanger in understanding human evolution, providing a key link in the process that led to modern human beings, scientists say.

A false tweet on a CBS Twitter account briefly reported Friday that Steve Jobs had died.

When it comes to Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, it appears The Daily Show host Jon Stewart has a bit of a soft spot for him.

Made from 7.5 tons of steel recovered and re-forged from the World Trade Center, the USS New York arrived in New York Friday to participate in the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Despite a credible but unconfirmed terror threat against New York City and Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama will not change his plans to travel to ground zero for the 10th anniversary of the Sept . 11 terrorist attacks.

Evidence found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan indicated that he wanted to attack the United States on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised, security has been ramped up following the reveal of credible intelligence that al-Qaida militants in Pakistan may be pursuing a plot to carry out car or truck bombings in Washington and New York City to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

President Barack Obama on Thursday directed U.S. intelligence officials to take all precautions after receiving credible intelligence that al-Qaida militants in Pakistan may be pursuing a plot to carry out car or truck bombings in Washington, D.C., and New York City to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Astronomers have outdone themselves by doing the (seemingly) unimaginable: Discovering an invisible exoplanet.