A Hollywood director believes his son was the lone gunman found dead behind the wheel of the BMW that crashed into a parked car, ending the shootings Friday night in the beach neighborhood of Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The chemicals necessary to facilitate lethal injection have become scarcer following a European-led boycott of drug sales for execution, so Tennessee’s prisons are looking to the electric chair.
Australians call tiny swimming trunks “budgie smugglers,” but the term might have new meaning after customs officials at Sydney’s airport said Wednesday that they found 16 wild-bird eggs in the crotch of a passenger’s pants.
In a second-term Cabinet reshuffle, President Barack Obama tapped San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to be the nation’s next housing secretary and Shaun Donovan as the White House’s budget head.
In the 2008 movie “Iron Man,” the main character becomes a superhero after building a suit of armor with an exoskeleton that gives him incredible strength.
Though the Obama Administration celebrated when droves of citizens signed up for Obamacare, over 8 million people, a large percentage of American pollsters still feel negatively about the new health care law.
New York City health officials found three unreported outbreaks of food poisoning by sifting through nearly 300,000 reviews on the popular website, Yelp.
The new miniature machine, used for the first time last year, saved the life of a newborn girl. About 1 to 2 percent of hospitalized infants have kidney problems that may require dialysis, which cleans toxins from the blood when the kidneys aren’t working.
The latest attraction at the races was the debut of the world’s biggest HD video screen — the “Big Board,” and its 750-speaker sound system, but after a horse fell and died, her trainer immediately blamed the sound system attached to Churchill’s vaunted new video board.
