As New Yorkers hunkered down for a severe thunderstorm Thursday afternoon, many took pictures of the swirling storm and posted their shots to Facebook.
Las Vegas cops say Ronald Hetzel, 41, attacked his victim first with a wooden guitar and then with a porcelain toilet bowl lid.
USA Today's Eileen Blass scored an interview with eight-time Olympic medal-winning speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, and the company wanted to promote the exclusive story on the front page of the sports section. There's nothing wrong with that; the way USA Today went about it, however, was highly questionable.
U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes most gun owners would want guns out of the hands of those who want to do harm, thus background checks and other means to safe gun sales shouldn't be a controversial issue.
A group of men deployed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to help stop crime in Chicago is a welcomed initiative by the city's first Jewish Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Jennifer Gibbons, the Chicago woman vying to become the first person to row solo around the perimeter of Lake Michigan, is not letting her alleged sexual assault get in the way of accomplishing the feat.
Police in Niqiao village, a small region near Wenling City in east China's Zhejiang province report that a local man's penis was stolen by thieves while he slept. Suspects include the jealous lovers of local women with whom Lin was allegedly having affairs.
In some bars across the nation, you could already stock up on condoms, cigarettes and pretty much any item you could need for a night out. But one non-profit organization in Minnesota added a new item: dispensers offering a pregnancy test for $3.
Nude photos of Carly Rae Jepsen -- the pop singer behind the "Call Me Maybe" phenomenon -- have been stolen from her computer, the singer has told police, according to a new report.
"Lucky Larry" the lobster lived to be 80 years old and weigh 17 pounds, and because of the kindness of a stranger, he will live to see another day.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has written a letter to the President of the fast food chain Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, after Cathy’s negative remarks about gay marriage, suggesting that a Chick-fil-A would be unwelcome in the city of Boston.
It hasn't been a good couple of weeks for Chick-Fil-A's PR. Bad enough that the restaurant chain may have taken to using fake sock puppet Facebook accounts to defend itself over the internet.
The alleged gunman behind the Aurora massacre sent a package to a Colorado psychiatrist that depicted stick figures shooting other stick figures and other illustrations of the massacre, according to Fox News.
American children's well-being have improved in education and health despite the recent economic downturn. However, between 2005 and 2010, 2.4 million more children were living in families and more parents are finding it hard to get steady employment.
One woman present at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting has been hospitalized, but not for the reason some may think. Katie Medley escaped what has been called “The Dark Knight Massacre” and has just given birth to a baby boy, NBC News has reported.
Clark Tabor was arrested on Sunday for causing a disturbance in a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” when he allegedly asked Does anyone have a gun? and exclaimed I should go off like in Colorado. As people become more sensitive after the tragedy, free speech and gun control are brought into question.
Heavy flooding in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has caused at least 39 deaths and washed away dozens of homes after a dam near the city of Jos overflowed.
While there is public outcry for a discussion on gun control, residents in Colorado have begun seeking background checks needed to buy guns. A local paper reported there has been an increasing number of people showing interest in carry-permit training.
A small group of Russian fishermen have discovered some 248 human fetuses dumped in a forest near the Ural Mountains 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of the city of Yekaterinburg.
Jimmy Massey and Luis Ruiz were charged on Monday with the killing of Carina Saunders whose dismembered body was found almost a year ago in a duffel bag behind a grocery store. The murder was a result of an alleged sex trafficking, prostitution and drug ring.
Google honored Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday by gracing its homepage with a drawing of aviator boarding a Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, which she used to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. The birthday celebration appears to be a bittersweet, appropriate commemoration on the heels of first female astronaut Sally Ride’s death on Monday.
The Goat Man mystery has been solved. The man in a goat suit that raised the eyebrows of many in Utah near the Ben Lomond Peak in Ogden is a 57-year-old hunter from Southern California.
Typhoon Vicente hit Hong Kong with strong gale-force winds and torrential rains which made the Hong Kong Observatory hoist the No. 10 tropical cyclone signal overnight. Officials called this the strongest typhoon to hit the city in the past decade. In China, three people were reported dead and five went missing after Vicente caused a landfall over the city of Taishan in south China's Guangdong province.
Fourteen people died in a truck that veered off a South Texas Highway after hitting a tree on Sunday evening. The truck was carrying 23 people, alleged illegeal immegrants, 11 of whom died on the stop and three died later in the area hospital. The remaining nine were injured. Two children were among the dead.
For the last three years, the consensus has been that a robust and self-sustaining recovery for the U.S. economy is on the cards, but economist Nouriel Roubini, dubbed Dr. Doom, thinks that it's not likely to happen, rather he expects below trend growth for many years to come.
Police in Aurora, Colo, said they won't be releasing more information into the investigation of Friday's theater shooting because of an order issued by the court Monday.
A severe typhoon hit Hong Kong Tuesday morning, disrupting business across the financial hub, with offices and the stock market to remain closed for at least part of the morning after the city raised its highest typhoon warning overnight.
Savannah Dietrich, the Kentucky teen who was sexually assaulted last year by two boys, won't face contempt charges after an attorney withdrew a motion to find her in contempt.
Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was left paralyzed in the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, offered words of encouragement to survivors of Friday's Colorado shooting during a vigil for the victims, families and survivors of The Dark Knight Rises Massacre in Aurora.
Right after the Hong Kong Stock Market closed on Monday; the financial hub was hit by gales as typhoon Vicente swept through it, prompting a red alert. The Hong Kong Observatory issued a No. 8 tropical cyclone warning in Hainan Island in South China immediately which disputed business in the capital and all the workers were asked to go home early from office.
