A former wig designer for rapper Nicki Minaj sued the performer Friday, accusing her of walking away from business plans, then making money by selling wigs based on his designs without permission.
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President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama at the White House Friday over the stern objection of China, which warned the meeting would “inflict grave damages” on the U.S. relationship with the Asian nation.
A bull that escaped a Texas ranch Tuesday and had found its way into a backyard before falling into a swimming pool had to be rescued by firefighters and animal control.
A movie crew was working on train tracks without permission from the railroad when a freight train crashed into the production team and its equipment, killing one and injuring seven others, a sheriff’s investigator said Friday.
A former tribal leader killed her brother, nephew, niece and a worker at the headquarters of a small Indian tribe that was evicting the suspect and her son from its land in far Northern California, police said on Friday.
An autopsy was scheduled Friday on the body of a missing young mother found inside a car that was parked near Philadelphia’s main train station and had a number of parking tickets on the window.
Motorists stuck in traffic on a Miami expressway rushed to help a woman who got out of her car, holding a baby and screaming for help.
Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.
Protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine’s embattled capital. Government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor.
Two men pleaded guilty Thursday to a 2011 beating at Dodger Stadium that left San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow brain damaged and disabled. They were immediately sentenced by an angry judge who called them cowards and the sort of people that sports fans fear when go to games.
Three deer trapped for as many days on an icy lake in Minnesota were rescued by a father-son duo who first learned about their plight on Facebook.
The lone winning ticket for the $425 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a convenience store in central California, but there was no immediate word on who may have won one of the largest lottery jackpots in U.S. history.
A New York woman says she was fired from McDonald’s after she and her co-workers paid for some firefighters’ meals when the franchise declined to donate the food.
Ukrainian protesters seized control of the capital’s central post office Wednesday, hurling fire bombs and rocks against officers in riot gear, a day after clashes that left at least 25 people dead and raised fears of civil war.
A motorcyclist who taunted San Antonio police for a week with a Facebook video of himself driving recklessly through traffic along with the message “catch me if you can” was caught while sneaking out of a friend’s house, police said on Tuesday.