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.
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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.
A wildfire burning in a scenic Arizona canyon is expected to nearly triple in size as crews scramble to get the upper hand in less rugged terrain.
When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concern: carjackers.
A woman’s story of being drugged, kidnapped and forced to marry her alleged captor began to emerge when she went to police and accused the man of domestic violence. During that conversation, officers learned of her connection to a 2004 missing-persons case in Santa Ana, about 20 miles away.
The grisly deaths of two inmates — one who “baked to death” in his overheated cell, another who sexually mutilated himself while locked up alone for seven days — have raised new questions about the New York City jail system’s ability to deal with a burgeoning number of mentally ill people.
A police report shows Fox News weekend anchor Gregg Jarrett may have taken a drug that didn’t mix well with alcohol when he was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A wind-whipped wildfire in a canyon near Flagstaff dramatically increased in size Wednesday as it sent up choking plumes of smoke, threatened homes and scuttled Memorial Day weekend plans in the popular hiking and camping area.
A woman who was 15 when she disappeared 10 years ago from her California home has contacted police and says she was held against her will for years.