The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son’s release on Thursday, reminding militants that his son shared the same faith as the ultraconservative group.
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Two more men have been arrested for threatening New York police, including one who called the precinct headquarters of two officers killed as they sat in their patrol car and asked to speak to one of them, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
Stacey Addison, 41, of Portland was arrested in September shortly after crossing the border into the Southeast Asia nation.
A California condor chick hatched this year in Zion National Park gave hope for the continued recovery of the endangered species, but scientists believe it has died.
Heavy rain made streams too swollen to cross on the island of Kauai.
Donors have given a huge Christmas gift to the surviving relatives of a Maryland mother and her two young sons who were killed when a jet crashed into their home earlier this month.
San Diego police say a 40-year-old man died after a border inspector shot him with a stun gun at the nation’s busiest crossing.
Protests flared into early Thursday in the St. Louis suburb where a white policeman fatally shot a black man who brandished a gun at a gas station on Tuesday night.
Oh, poo. That’s the sentiment behind a new interactive map that tracks reports of human excrement by the public in San Francisco.
