Lauren Holter

A 45-foot, 800-pound paper plane soared across the Arizona desert Wednesday evening.

A New Jersey middle school banned its sixth through eighth grade students from hugging due to inappropriate behavior.

Astoria resident Jordan Hawes pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife, Tara Hawes, and received 25 years in prison.

A Georgia student has begun a federal lawsuit against administrators of Alpharetta High School for removing him from the position of student body president after he proposed gay-friendly changes to prom.

Eight years after the disappearance of Miguel Morin, his mother looks forward to reuniting with her son.

Indiana father Shelly Miller attacked his daughter's assistant middle school basketball coach after the coach made her run laps at practice.

The federal government gave Oregon, Washington and Idaho permission to kill California sea lions that eat threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River Thursday.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Republican, signed a $4 billion state budget Friday that will make up for money cut a year ago that went toward education and Medicaid recipients.

The parents of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old shot and killed in Florida Feb. 26, want the FBI to investigate the case.

The latest fad in food challenges, the cinnamon challenge, has reached everyone from NBS players to the governor of Illinois.

South Carolina mother, Shaquan Duley, began crying as she waited to plead guilty to the murders of her two young sons Friday without making a plea deal with prosecutors.

Full of big hair, big jewelry and big personalities, GCB is stirring up trouble in the Christian community.

After the tragic shooting Monday that took the lives of three students and left two others wounded, the students of Ohio's Chardon High returned to school Friday.

Japanese researchers have developed a new gadget to stop a conversation in seconds.

Former Stonehill College student, Lindsay Blankmeyer, is suing the college for $150,000 on the basis that officials didn't help her find a new dorm room.

Scarlett Johansson is taking on the role of Janet Leigh in Sacha Gervasi's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.

Having a former President for a father and the current Secretary of State for a mother has gotten Chelsea Clinton far in life. According to Fox News, Clinton plans to extend her contract with NBC News to work on special segments for the shows Rock Center and Nightly News, despite negative feedback from viewers and fellow journalists.

Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen's ex-wife was charged with possession and distribution of cocaine in Colorado following her arrest in Aspen Dec. 30.

Instead of being applauded for saving a drowning raccoon in the Colorado River, 57-year-old Stan Morris was arrested seven months later.

Following accusations of pushing a stranger into an oncoming subway train, Jose Rojas was convicted Friday of assault but acquitted of attempted murder.

Broadway will soon have another Woody Allen creation on the stage: Bullets Over Broadway. The 1994 film is being adapted into a musical that aims to open in 2013.

Creating national awareness about bullying of young gays, the court case of former Rutgers student, 19-year-old Dharun Ravi, has begun its opening statements.

Casey Anthony's civil defamation trial will most likely be in April. Brought about by Zenaida Gonzalez, Anthony is being sued for the hardships forced upon Gonzalez when Anthony identified someone with a similar name as abducting her daughter in 2008.

Rupert Murdoch, chief executive and founder of the global media empire News Corp., appears to be a businessman who doesn't always play by the rules.

Former “Full House” and “The Practice” star Marla Sokoloff and husband Alec Puro welcomed their daughter Elliote into the world Wednesday.

Bank of America has been reporting Arthur Livingston, of South Carolina, as dead to the three major credit agencies since May 2009. Although he is very much alive, the regional manager of a chemical company's credit report reads, File not scored because subject is deceased.

Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky requested looser bail restrictions to allow him to visit with his grandchildren and old friends, while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges, but prosecutors countered that Sandusky's home is not safe for children.

After conservative Christian group One Million Moms attacked J.C. Penney for hiring a lesbian spokesperson, TV host Bill O'Reilly stood by Ellen DeGeneres' side.

Michelle Obama spiced things up in Dallas Friday as she judged a cooking competition with “Top Chef’s” host Tom Colicchio and White House chef Sam Kass.