Footage released this week from a December plane crash that killed a Hawaii official shows water flooding the plane at the moment of impact.
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Attorney General Eric Holder is recognizing the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples in Utah that took place before the Supreme Court put those unions on hold.
The last words Ruth Kennedy heard from her daughter were “oh no!” It was during that call, prosecutors say, that Carol Kennedy’s ex-husband, Steven DeMocker, emerged from hiding and bludgeoned the 53-year-old woman to death with a golf club.
A pilot who made a safe emergency landing on a major Anchorage street said he lost power, waited for a break in traffic, then descended onto the snowy median.
At least 50,000 bats have been killed by the heat as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever.
The Mexican government says fishermen found rare conjoined gray whale calves that died shortly after being born.
Moving quickly to quell a widening political scandal, Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the “abject stupidity” of his staff, insisting he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams as retribution against a Democratic mayor.
An Oregon waitress lifted a credit card receipt from a bill and found an envelope with a question mark. Inside it was 17 grams of meth.
A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an “atomic wedgie,” that caused the victim to suffocate on his own underwear.
A Navy helicopter with five crew members crashed into the ocean off the Virginia coast during a routine training mission Wednesday, killing two crew members and leaving two in the hospital and one still missing.
Rushing to curb political fallout, the White House pushed back Wednesday against harsh criticism in a new book by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates that questions President Barack Obama’s war leadership and rips into Vice President Joe Biden.
A political dirty-tricks investigation of Gov. Chris Christie’s inner circle broke wide open Wednesday with the release of emails and text messages that suggest one of his top aides engineered traffic jams in a New Jersey town last September to punish its mayor.
Despite having a marriage license, dozens, maybe hundreds, of couples missed their chance to be legally married in Utah after the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday to temporarily halt gay marriages until an appeals court considers whether gay couples have a right to wed in Utah.
The cold front that has overrun most of the eastern United States is starting to wane today, but cities are not out of the ice just yet.