POLITICS

A sudden gust of strong wind turned the bluesfest at Indiana State Fair into a horrow show by causing the concert stage to collapse and crush four people to death.

The Indiana State Fair concert turned into mayhem when a massive storm broke down the stage on Saturday night, killing at least four and injuring 24, according to officials.

A 12-year-old Boy Scout displayed an amazing presence of mind when he got lost during a Utah camping trip. The spirited young boy used the survival skills he learned as a Boy Scout to build himself a shelter made of tree branches and wood to get through a cold night and he covered himself in dirt to stay warm.

Despite a bright full moon, sky-watchers around the world didn't get disappointed as they caught striking views of the Perseid meteor shower overnight Friday (Aug. 12).

TrES-2b, the blackest planet ever discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, is only three million miles away from the star it orbits, which makes its atmosphere burn at 980 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit). But still, the blacker than coal planet mysteriously reflects only one percent of the starlight that strikes it.

Los Angeles County police have opened a criminal investigation to track the source of a tweet sent from rapper the Game?s Twitter account that resulted in two hours of jammed emergency phone lines Friday night, the L.A. Times reports.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) of San Francisco shut down underground cell phone communications for a few hours at various stations on Thursday night.

A pregnant San Francisco area woman was killed by one of her pit bulls, her mauled body found by her husband, police said on Friday.

A California institute plans to reboot its listening post for intelligent life in space, with private donations to replace government cutbacks.

BART issued a statement on Friday to explain the cell phone disruption in four downtown San Francisco stations Thursday, which stirred criticism by civil libertarians.

Headless Horsemanning, an emerging posing meme begotten by Planking, became viral this week, taking the Internet by storm.

A prehistoric body believed to be that of a woman was discovered in the bog near Portlaoise, of County Laois in the midlands of Ireland on Wednesday. While the head and torso of the body, which could be 3000 years old, had decomposed, the legs survived due to the high chemical content in the peat bog.

The Albemarle County School Board has removed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes book, "A Study in Scarlet" from the sixth grade reading list.

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler spacecraft have discovered the darkest known planet in the galaxy called TrES-2b located around 750 million light years away.

Scientists at NASA'S Solar Dynamics Observatory have captured brilliant images of the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun.

A controversial series of portraits photographed by Mark Laita places viewers in an uncomfortable spot as they view through diptychs that depict the raw realities of life. Laita's 'Created Equal' pairs provocative portraits that stray from using photography to beautify or enhance an image. Rather his 'Created Equal' series remain honest and real.

A new study has revealed that the brains of both human babies and chimp babies get developed by life experience, but compared to baby chimpanzees; brains of human babies develop much faster and increase in volume.

A California man, who pleaded guilty in May to threatening U.S. Representative Jim McDermott, was sentenced Friday to eight months in federal prison.

A Florida judge has ordered Casey Anthony back to the state by Aug. 26 to serve a probation period for the 2010 check fraud conviction. Judge Belvin Perry rejected claims by Anthony's lawyers that the she already served her probation while in jail waiting for the murder trial for allegedly killing her 2-year-old Caylee in 2008.

Despite rising global average temperatures, we might see a short retrieve in the rapid decrease in Arctic sea ice in the coming decade. But the unexpected phenomenon will ultimately disappear after the estimated period of time.

A U.S. Ski Team member just lost his shot at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia after being charged with urinating on a young girl on a JetBlue flight from Oregon to New York, officials said on Friday.

A California man who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill U.S. Representative Jim McDermott of Washington state was sentenced to eight months in prison on Friday by a federal judge.

The cellar where Josef Fritzl kept his "second family" -- namely the family he had with his imprisoned daughter -- will be destroyed.

A Florida judge on Friday ordered Casey Anthony, the young mother acquitted of murdering her toddler, to report for probation by August 26 on a 2010 check fraud conviction.

An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.

Anthony Sowell's execution has been planned for October next year. He was convicted of the murder of 11 women between 2007 and 2009.

A mischief at Verizon went to an underground vault with keys and disconnected the police landline phone service. It is uncertain if the Tuesday incident was connected with the Verizon strike.

Casey Anthony was order to get out of hiding and return to Florida to report for probation. Anthony must go back to Florida by Aug. 26 in order to serve her probation on a 2010 check fraud conviction.

David Cameron is looking into the possibility of banning people from using social media if they are suspected of using them for plotting criminal activities.