The Sept. 11 attacks changed the landscape of New York City forever. Before 9/11, you could view the World Trade Center towers by crossing the Brooklyn Bridge or hitching a ride on the Staten Island Ferry.
In March of 2010, Jarrod Wyatt was charged with murder, aggravated mayhem and torture after removing the heart, tongue, and face of his sparring partner and friend, Taylor Powell
Police are searching for a suspect they believed shot and killed a woman at the Cameron Village development in Raleigh, N.C., which caused 14 area schools to be go into lockdown.
A Brooklyn apartment was found to be the home of two alligators, and eleven other reptiles, as well as several pitbulls, in a recent police search.
A Texas man allegedly killed his girlfriend after she revealed she had HIV, according to police.
Chicago's teachers union said Sunday night more than 29,000 teachers and support staff would go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after contract talks with the school board failed.
NY1 turns 20 this week and the unexpectedly successful New York news channel's star anchor Pat Kiernan is restless, ready to move on to bigger venues. Still, he says, he knows how lucky he's been: "I have landed in absolutely the best spot as far as the changing economics and patterns of the news business."
Defense attorneys who represented O.J. Simpson during his 1994-95 murder trial have responded to new allegations that one of the most important pieces of evidence had been illegally tampered with.
Researchers and historians at Amherst College think they’ve found a new photograph of poet Emily Dickinson. If the scholars are right, it would be only the second known photo of the revered American poet.
Dr. Michael Berkland, 57, a former medical examiner, was arrested in Florida on Friday, after keeping human organs in over 100 containers and placing them in a storage unit.
The National Weather Service issued a severe weather advisory for much for the Northeast on Saturday as a tornado touched down in Queens, New York. Flooding was reported in Queens, while parts of New England braced for the storm.
Historians in Alabama have found a mysterious shipwreck that washed ashore after Tropical Storm Isaac passed through the area. Large remains of a wooden ship were found on the beach after Isaac wrestled the wreck from the ocean’s grip.
A stretch of China's Yangtze River has mysteriously turned red around the city of Chongqing. Officials are investigating the river's transformation, as nobody is quite sure what caused it. The river began turning the color of a nice marinara sauce on Thursday.
Nigerian police are conducting 24-hour surveillance of all telecom installations after the terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a recent spate of attacks on mobile phone towers in the north.
A puzzling murder mystery in the French Alps has taken on international import as more and more details about the slain members of a British-Iraqi family are uncovered.
Christopher Maffei, the South San Francisco, Calif., man who allegedly abducted his two young children, has been spotted on a stolen boat with one of the kids by a commercial fisherman 50 miles off a harbor near San Francisco.
The Department of Homeland Security jokingly issued a warning to people in the path of a disaster to prepare as though there's a zombie apocalypse on the horizon. The warning comes in the wake of the cannibal attacks earlier this summer and Hurricane Isaac.
This past summer, "zombie apocalypse" hysteria was on the rise as cannibalistic attacks were constantly in the news
Kenya Wildlife Service plans to complete the project in 5 years.
Two black men from California filed a discrimination suit against In-N-Out Burger, alleging the restaurant chain refused to hire them because of their race and age.
Christopher Shell started the celebration of his 29th birthday as a passenger of US Airways Flight 1267. He then became a suspect in an investigation of explosives on board the Philadelphia-to-Dallas flight, but was later cleared as a victim of the hoax. Yet the Philadelphia man may still wind up in jail from charges based on unrelated outstanding warrants.
It's a sign of good times in the Eastern Hemisphere: beer is becoming more and more popular in Asia.
At least 43 people were killed and over 150 injured when a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Yunnan and Guizhou provinces Friday, Chinese media reported.
Four U.S. Marines were arrested in Long Beach, Calif. after allegedly beating a man outside of a gay bar over Labor Day weekend. The Marines allegedly made anti-gay slurs before attacking the man.
This article shows you how to take advantage of a limited-time-only promotion through which you can purchase a $10 Starbucks gift card for just $5. That's like a whole free Venti Mocha Frappucino with extra chocolate drizzle and whip.
Bullfighting returned to Spanish public television for the first time in six years on Wednesday evening.
An English team of researchers found a medieval church in what is now Leicester. Inside the friary they hope to find the remains of England's King Richard III, who was killed during a battle in England's War of the Roses.
Actor Kal Penn may be most well-known for his role in the comical "Harold and Kumar" film series, but he has also served as an associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement
Fire alarms were set off at France's Feissenheim nuclear power plant when a blast of steam erupted after an accidental chemical reaction, injuring at least two people.
A major blaze in a fireworks factory at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, has reportedly led to 10 people, including children, dead and more than 20 injured on Wednesday, local media reports said.
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