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Firefighters are at the scene of a raging fire in Central Park that began around 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

Giant George, a nearly five-feet-tall Great Dane, has been deemed the world's tallest dog

The chances of being struck by lightning in a lifetime are quite slim, one in one million according to the National Weather Service, but the San Francisco Bay Bridge defied odds Thursday night during an intense storm captured in photos. Photographer Phil McGrew snapped photos of the storm, showing the Bay Bridge being struck by not one, not two, but nine bolts of lightning.

The story of nine-year-old Caine Monroy's cardboard arcade which he built at his father's auto parts store in East Los Angeles has turned into an internet sensation with the help of an independent filmmaker named Nirvan Mullick.

A Florida circuit court judge said her husband is law partner's with a CNN legal analyst who was initially approached to represent Zimmerman.

Kanye West has ended his quickie relationship with Kim Kardasian after she tried to bring her reality show cameras along with them for the Watch the Throne Euro-tour, MediaTakeOut is reporting. The popular gossip site claims that a good friend of Kanye fed them the exclusive, anonymous tip.

Thomas Kinkade's brother has reported that the artist battled with alcoholism for the past four or five years and relapsed just before his death.

The defendants are the first to be charged with committing a hate crime in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act.

Ohio gunman Kevin Allen was fatally shot on Thursday after shooting his wife and daughter at a Cracker Barrel restaurant because she said she was leaving him, police told the media.

A perfectly rectangular structure was discovered on Mars after amateur space enthusiasts investigated NASA pictures of the Red Planet. Based on the picture, the Mars monolith bears a resemblance to the monoliths left on Earth and the moon in the Stanley Kubrick classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Health experts said this week that women with no unusual risk for ovarian cancer should not undergo regular screening for the disease. Testing methods are simply not effective enough, and may lead women to undergo unnecessary procedures at risk to their health.

On April 4th Google unveiled its latest venture, “Project Glass,” showcasing eyeglasses that will allow users to interact with their environments. The search engine giant launched a video demonstrating how the futuristic eyewear will work, but no expected release date has been revealed to the public.

George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, making his first court appearance April 12 at the Seminole County Correctional Facility in Sanford, Fla., where he is being currently being held.

Twitter declared April 13 as National Kiss Day, yet as this one has fallen on a Friday, Tweeters have taken to the popular social media site to express their concerns over what could possible happen when they pucker up to lay a smooch on their loved ones.

A Mars rover found life on the red planet in 1976, according to a new study

Abdul Arian, a Los Angeles area teenager, was killed in a hail of 90 bullets on the 101 Freeway in a scene that played out on live television.

The raging fire that broke out in a Modesto, CA apartment Thursday belonging to the suspect in the fatal shootings of a deputy and civilian was put out Friday morning.

The wives and children of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia next week.

“Irish Moutarde” a French-Canadian rock band with an obsession for George R.R. Martin’s fantasy books series, “Game of Thrones,” have combined their two passions to create a Celtic rock version of “The Bear and the Maiden Fair,” a folk song created by Martin and referred to throughout the series.

Bite-sized hail hammered cities in the Texas Panhandle so hard on Wednesday that it has left up to 4-feet of ice in some areas.

Samsung’s highly anticipated Galaxy S3 smartphone is said to be the manufacturer’s flagship device of the year. The Korea-based company has yet to announce an official release date, but speculations have been circulating about when the phone will be launched and which features it will support.

Police have discovered the body of man who killed a New Hampshire police chief, Michael Maloney, who was only about two weeks away from retirement, when he was killed during a drug bust on Thursday.

Move over Batman, there's a new superhero in town fighting crime and his name is Snackman, the latest viral YouTube sensation who used his superpowers of casual snacking to fight bad guys on a New York City subway, an event captured on video in its entirety by an onlooker. Charles Sonder, a 24-year-old dubbed Snackman, was riding the 6 train when a fight between two strangers broke out. Sonder stepped between the pair to thwart the fight, in the process of munching on ...

The Marine Corps. has identified the two Marines killed in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey in Morocco on Wednesday, as Cpls. Robby Reyes and Derek Kerns.

According to a recent report by Nikkei.com, a Japanese couple based in Tokyo has received 600,000 yen, which is about $7,400 in compensation after suing Apple over a burning iPod Nano accident.

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., was treated and released from hospital after he suffered smoke inhalation and second-degree burns after punching through flames on Thursday, to rescue a neighbor from her burning house.

The US-based consultancy CareerCast has listed the ten best jobs of 2012 on the basis work environment offered, stress, income levels, physical demands and job outlook.

Zeddie Watkins Little, more popularly known as the Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, had remained the sweetheart of the Internet for more than a week. He even appeared in ABC's breakfast show, Good Morning America, on Wednesday with Will King, the photographer who took his photo. But the stardom that Zeddie gained, thanks to his random photo, seems to get covered up by another set of photos of a little puppy.

US President Barack Obama may have many fans. However, without doubt, his biggest fan is from Columbia. Silvio Carrasquilla, an Afro-Colombian and former mayor of the northern town of Turbaco, has converted his home into the White House with the hope of inviting Obama when he attends a summit in nearby Cartagena this weekend. And guess what? This diehard fan also has planned a surprise gift for the President.