A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti.
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British inquest sources say that Peaches Geldof’s death could be an echo of her mother’s fatal heroin overdose.
The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following scrutiny of his plan to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
The two recent cases – one in Minnesota, another in Montana – take the “stand your ground” debate to a new level: Do laws that allow private citizens to protect their property also let them set a trap and wait for someone to kill?
A shaky video — at times poignant and heartbreaking as the teens said last words to their loved ones — was found on the cellphone belonging to 17-year-old Park Su-hyeon when his body was recovered after the disaster on the morning of April 16 off South Korea.
A retired U.S. general felt the heat from a Republican committee chairman after saying that the military “should have tried” to save the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
A Utah girl who was crossing the street after departing her school bus was struck by an oncoming bus and is in critical condition.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began a leave of absence to seek treatment for substance abuse Thursday, disappearing from public view after a report surfaced of second video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine.
Officials say a block-long hole opened up when a street collapsed in a residential neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, sucking in several cars and forcing the evacuation of several houses.
An apparent gas explosion all but destroyed a jail in the Florida Panhandle, killing two inmates and injuring as many as 180 people inside the building, authorities said Thursday. Three other inmates were found after they were reported missing.
Sixty-two students were arrested Thursday after police said they broke into their high school overnight for a senior class prank, urinating in hallways, greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs to lockers.
During China’s President Xi Jinping’s visit to a western region of China, an explosion took place at a train station, killing 3 and injuring dozens in an event now being linked to terrorism.
The hunt for the wreckage of Malaysian Flight 370 continues after an Australian-based exploration program dismissed survey claims that plane remnants had been found in the Bay of Bengal.
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization.
The congressional push by Senate Democrats to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 over 30 months, “a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s economic plans,” has been derailed by Republicans.