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Two children shot themselves at home in separate incidents in Las Vegas
Kameron Asgari, a 10-year-old boy, died, and a 13-year-old girl is in critical condition after they shot themselves at home in separate incidents in...
Utah: Officer Kevin Peck crawls beneath bus to hold hands with young mother dragged along road
Aryann Smith, a young mother from Utah, was hit by a commuter bus, which knocked her to the ground and pinning her between it...
“Kiss someone special” prank at Rosemount High School pep fest
Students at Rosemount High School in Minnesota were told to expect a kiss from a “special someone” while they were blindfolded, but when the...
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62, after a long battle with cancer
Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...
One World Trade Center: the tallest building in Manhattan reached its 90th floor
When will be completed, One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of incredible poignancy for New York City. One...
Scamp, a terrier-Shih Tzu puppy hit by a car and believed dead, came back to life overnight
Scamp, an eight-month-old terrier-Shih Tzu puppy, had been hit by a car and he was apparently so badly injured that he had died on...
Flag ceremony in Baghdad brings US operations in Iraq to a formal end
The American flag has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operations in Iraq to a formal end. Leon Panetta, the...
US Air Force soldiers “play dead” in an open casket
The United States Air Force has launched an internal investigation after a disturbing image of 15 soldiers posing with one of them chained up...
Steven Phillips, a wrongfully convicted man who spent 25 years in jail, faces losing $4M compensation to his ex-wife
Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, faces losing his $4 million compensation to...
Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart spoke publicly for the first time about her ordeal
Elizabeth Smart, a 24-year-old woman from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was snatched from her bedroom almost 10 years ago, revealed for the first...
Eve Carson’s trial: the student asked her attackers to pray with her before she was murdered
A startling court testimony during the trial of Eve Carson, the University of North Carolina student president brutally murdered by two thugs in 2008,...
News anchor drunk on air? Annie Stensrud, KEYC-TV news reader, claimed she was sick, not drunk
Annie Stensrud, a Minnesota news reader who faced allegations of being drunk while on air last week, has claimed she was sick and not...
Florida: cheating Jody Mary Ryan filed fake rape claim against her lover forced by her angry husband
Jody Mary Ryan from Fort Myers, Florida, hoped to cover her tracks and appease her angry husband by telling police her lover - her...
California: teacher Nadia Christine Diaz asks forgiveness after she had sex with 15-year-old student
Nadia Christine Diaz, a substitute teacher in Fresno, California, who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old pupil, begged God's forgiveness after her “terrible mistake”. Nadia...
Avery Blandin stabbed to death his wife at Walmart store in Greenville County
Avery L. Blandin from South Carolina has been charged with murder of his wife, who was fatally stabbed inside a Greenville County Walmart this...
US National Transportation Board wants to ban the use of all mobile device while driving (including hands-free)
American transportation safety regulators want to ban the use of mobile devices while driving, going so far as to say they should never be...
Long Island: police found human remains believed to be of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert
Police investigators on New York's Long Island announced today they believe they have discovered the skeletal remains of New Jersey prostitute Shannan Gilbert, who...
Police launched murder probe after body of Karen Swift, who vanished on Halloween night, was found
Police in Dyer County, Tennessee, have launched a murder investigation after the body of mother-of-four Karen Swift, who vanished after Halloween party, was found. Karen...
Four people arrested for operating swingers’ club in Tampa Bay
Four people were arrested in Tampa Bay, Florida, after police discovered Steven and Cynthia Bowers, a middle-aged Florida couple, were holding a swingers' club...
Bart Heller’s Facebook post led police to a murder scene where he killed two 19-year-olds
Bart Heller, a jilted boyfriend from Fort Wayne, Indiana, posted on Facebook a text that led police to a gruesome murder scene, where he...
Verizon apologized after sending “extreme threat to life” warning mass text message
Verizon Wireless apologized yesterday for sending out a mass text message to thousands of people warning of a “civil emergency” and an “extreme threat...
4 soldiers died after two OH-58 Kiowa choppers crashed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Four US soldiers have been killed when two helicopters crashed on a training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, reports quoting a military...
Image of a 1952 nuclear explosion captured at one ten-millionth of a second after detonation
One of the challenges of the U.S. government during nuclear weapons testing in the early 50’s was to design a camera capable of capturing...
TJ Volner, the babysitter of a 4-year-old boy slit the toddler’s throat and sent photo to his mother
Terry Joe “TJ” Volner, the babysitter of a 4-year-old boy from Wright County, Missouri, has been accused of slitting the boy’s throat and sending...
Ben Ellis, 14, found dead the day after he had a dental work
Ben Ellis, from Gilmer County, Georgia, a 14-year-old boy was found dead in his bed the day after having his wisdom teeth removed. Ben Ellis...
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