Jeff Stone

Just hours into the new year, a young woman was killed after an early morning midtown train ran her over.

Heavy metal guitarist has gone from playing in Metallica to singing in Megadeth to complaining about Men's Warehouse on Facebook.

Herriman High School in Utah canceled a school play featuring the music of Elvis Presley for being too sexually suggestive, then backed off.

Hackers connected with Anonymous have released a video of Steubenville High School students joking about the rape of a 16-year-old girl at the hands of two star athletes.

While the earliest incarnation was about a group of friends who had run afoul of Leatherface, “Texas Chainsaw 3D” reportedly tells the story of how the character turned into such a gruesome monster.

One customer's random act of kindness inspired 227 other Tim Hortons patrons to pay for the order of the person behind them in the drive-thru line at a Winnipeg location.

Unlike the Nielsen ratings, there is no single comprehensive way to track which BitTorrent files are most searched for and downloaded. Even so, data assembled by TorrentFreak found that the most-sought television show was “The Walking Dead.” Popular films included “Ted,” “Taken 2,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “The Avengers.”

Two boys who had been the focus of a nationwide Amber Alert were found alive and healthy earlier this week with their father at his home in Austin, Texas. Henry Cleary, 7, and Ben Cleary, 9, last spoke with their mother Theresa Nash before Christmas when they were in Tennessee.

Violent crackdowns on the Occupy movement last year were a product of not only the FBI and local police but also private security firms hired by the very banks the demonstrators were protesting.

Erika Menendez was arrested on Saturday and charged with second-degree murder after police say she pushed a man in front of an oncoming subway train in Queens, N.Y. The homeless woman, 31, is also being charged with a hate crime after she told police she targeted the man specifically because of her assumptions about his religion.

A Russian airliner crash killed four people Saturday when a plane slid off an airport runway outside Moscow and crashed onto a highway.

"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn is the story of an unhappy marriage gone awry and, for its treatment of violence against women, has been the toast of the literary world.

When a rapper's brain is in "flow," it is most active in sections that organization and vocabulary.

Comedian Katt Williams was arrested and released on bond Friday night after police say he stashed guns and drugs in his California home.

The young Indian woman who was gang-raped while riding on a bus through Delhi died early Saturday local time, losing the fight for her life to the terrible injuries suffered when she was beaten, raped, and eventually thrown from the moving vehicle.

Police in Los Angeles were surprised Wednesday when the city's gun-buyback program yielded two rocket launchers and 75 assault weapons.

Police in California said they are searching for a motive after arresting a 24-year-old man for allegedly setting a homeless woman on fire as she slept on a bench in San Fernando early Thursday morning.

Marilyn Monroe’s death, like her life, has been shrouded in mystery and rumors. Now, it appears that Monroe was monitored by the FBI and investigated for possible ties to Communism.

Hockey fans still clinging to hope that the NHL won’t cancel a second season in eight years have a new beacon of hope as the league owners have proposed another offer to the NHL Player’s Association.

A pack of thieves phoned in a fake call to 911 and successfully distracted police long enough to get away with a jewelry-store heist in the Willowbrook area of Houston.

Facilitating Internet piracy is not the goal of the programs uTorrent and BitTorrent, according to the file-sharing giant that owns both platforms, BitTorrent Inc.

Public opinion is turning against the National Rife Association after its president, Wayne LaPierre, said there should be an armed police officer in every U.S. school.

It’s been a decade since Joe Strummer passed away. The former leader of The Clash, once deemed “the only band that matters,” woke up on Dec. 22, 2002, walked his dog, and returned to his home in Somerset, England, and quietly died from an undiagnosed heart defect.

With Christmas just a few days away, cable TV customers can likely find some Santa Claus or Rudolph-themed enertainment on the air 24/7.

Police searching the Lanza home in Newtown found a smashed computer and broken hard drive, leaving many questions unanswered.

Crocket Keller, the owner of a Texas gun store, offered a discount for teachers who wanted to buy guns after the Connecticut school shooting.

After eight decades of public service, Hawaii Sen. Dan Inouye passed away at 88 Monday due to respiratory problems.

Los Angeles police announced they have arrested a man for allegedly using his Facebook to threaten to shoot up a local elementary school. Kyle Bangayan, 24, was arrested at his parent’s home in east Hollywood after the FBI and LAPD found him in possession of nine guns, including rifles, handguns, and a shotgun.

Gord Young thinks he’s deciphered a World War II code meant for British intelligence officers planning the D-Day invasion at Normandy. The mystery began when London resident David Martin found in his chimney the remains of a carrier pigeon with a canister used by WWII spies attached to the leg.