The purse that Paris Hilton denied was hers, along with the 0.8 grams of cocaine in it, is strikingly similar to one she said she purchased in July, according to her Twitter account.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in protective “Gumby suits.”
LONDON — Physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn’t necessary for the creation of the universe. In his new book, “The Grand Design,” the British scientist says unraveling a complex series of theories will explain the universe. Hawking wrote that it was “not necessary to invoke God. The Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
SILVER SPRING, Md. — A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel’s headquarters said he hated the company’s shows such as “Kate Plus 8” because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.
BUXTON, N.C. — Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina’s fragile chain of barrier islands. They also were trying to figure out whether the storm would stay offshore as it tracks up the Northeast coast or bring hurricane-force winds to Long Island, the Boston metropolitan area and Cape Cod.