An Ohio cancer patient has died less than three weeks after attending his daughter’s wedding on a gurney to fulfill his promise to walk her down the aisle.
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Plans to auction a rare permit that will allow a hunter to take down an endangered black rhino are drawing criticism from some conservationists, but the organizer says the fundraiser could bring in more than $1 million that would go toward protecting the species.
A northern Ohio community is decking the halls to provide an early Christmas for an ailing boy with cancer who said he wanted to be home for the holiday.
Airline passengers will be able to use their electronic devices gate-to-gate to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music — but not talk on their cellphones — under much-anticipated new guidelines issued Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.
A scaled-down version of the space shuttle being developed by a Sparks company was drop-tested from 12,500 feet, but a landing gear problem ended in a rocky landing. Still, the test was deemed a success.
Smokers younger than 21 in the nation’s biggest city will soon be barred from buying cigarettes after the New York City Council voted overwhelming Wednesday to raise the tobacco-purchasing age to higher than all but a few other places in the United States.
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported.
Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has come up empty-handed in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter.
A thick dust storm crossing Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson led to a chain-reaction crash that killed three people Tuesday in an area where gusting winds often reduce visibility to zero.
The sheriff says that six people found dead in a South Carolina home had all been shot in a domestic dispute that ended with the gunman’s suicide.
It looked like things were really starting to heat up for this little factory town when the maker of the Sriracha chili sauce opened a sprawling 650,000-square-foot factory within its borders. Getting the jobs and economic boost was great. Getting a whiff of the sauce being made wasn’t
Former Illinois U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a North Carolina prison Tuesday to begin serving a 2 1/2-year term for illegally spending $750,000 in campaign money on everything from cigars to a gold watch.
The usual scenario involves suspicious glances, inattentive clerks or rude service — not handcuffs.
Move over, website woes. Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health care problem — a wave of cancellation notices hitting individuals and small business who buy their own insurance.
Trayvon Martin’s mother told a panel of senators Tuesday that state stand your ground self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue a year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.