This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s final studio album, and fans aren’t just able to buy a new “super deluxe” box set to celebrate the occasion. They can also buy the childhood home of late frontman Kurt Cobain, complete with his mattress.
Three freight trains collided in the Texas Panhandle before dawn Wednesday, derailing up to 30 cars and injuring four crewmembers including two critically.
A noted California doctor is being called a hero after he performed an emergency life-saving tracheotomy on a community leader who was choking on a piece of meat.
With expected losses of $6 billion this year, the Postal Service is pushing for a 3-cent increase in the price to mail a letter. Consumers would pay 49 cents, bulk mail rates would go up 5.9 percent and international letters would cost $1.15.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup on Wednesday with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.
The FBI released surveillance footage Tuesday of the Washington Navy Yard gunman, who the agency said did not target specific individuals when he opened fire inside a building, killing 12 people.
Undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes a “yellow brick road,” literally sprinkled with gold dust, runs along Cape Cod’s shifting seafloor and leads to undiscovered treasure from the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah.
With new health insurance markets launching next week, the Obama administration is unveiling premiums and plan choices for 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead to cover uninsured residents.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Houston-based retailer Mattress Firm this week, saying company officials made life difficult for older employees in Las Vegas as part of a systematic effort to replace them with younger workers.
Federal researchers have been working on a system to measure and predict the destructiveness of wildfires — similar to the way officials use the magnitude scale for earthquakes and other tools to rate and evaluate tornadoes and hurricanes.
In the first investigation of its kind, federal transportation officials are reviewing whether Asiana Airlines failed to meet legal obligations to help the families of passengers after one of its planes crashed at San Francisco International Airport.
Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday vowed to speak in opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care law until he’s “no longer able to stand,” even though fellow Republicans urged him to back down from his filibuster for fear of a possible government shutdown in a week.
A tiny Asian snake was found on a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner in Australia, leading to 370 passengers being grounded overnight.
Police say a Chicago man, clipped in the leg by gunfire, went looking for revenge, leading fellow gang members to a crowded park, where one of them unleashed more than a dozen bullets from an assault rifle in a shooting that wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy.
There will be no rose ceremony for a 430-pound bachelor gorilla that failed to form any meaningful relationships with fellow apes during an 18-year stay at the Dallas Zoo.
