A sophisticated, real-world study confirms that dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving raises the risk of a crash or near-miss, especially for younger drivers. But the research also produced a surprise: Simply talking on the phone did not prove dangerous, as it has in other studies.
Michael Schumacher’s family has provided French investigators with the helmet camera that the Formula One great wore during a skiing incident in which he was critically injured, his manager said Saturday.
Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing card.
Former first lady Barbara Bush has been discharged from a Texas hospital where she spent nearly a week being treated for pneumonia.
An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home on Saturday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice.
Police arrested a suspect Thursday in the killing of a respected priest and educator who was found dead on New Year’s Day in a church rectory in Northern California.
Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you’ll get some dreary visions. Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today.
How does 6 inches of snow look? While people in Las Vegas may not see such a sight often, the East Coast is seeing it right now.
A storm in the Northeast on Friday shut down major highways temporarily, grounded flights, closed schools and was blamed for at least 14 deaths in the eastern half of the country. Frigid temperatures were unusual even cities accustomed to blasts of winter weather.
A Finnish man decided last year that for Christmas, the best present he could give his sons would be to send them into space.
Alabama fans were understandably frustrated during the Crimson Tide’s 45-31 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners Thursday in the Sugar Bowl.
A man who allegedly stole human brain samples from a medical history museum was arrested after a California man who bought some of the tissue online alerted authorities.
A 9-year-old girl delivered her own baby sister this week after her mother went into labor at their Chicago home.
A game of hide-and-seek ended with a visit from firefighters this week when an 11-year-old Utah girl got stuck in a washing machine.
Authorities say a Florida man who won a raffle to watch the series finale of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” with the cast has been charged with running a drug distribution operation.
