Divers conducting a training exercise with sonar equipment found a 1969 Camaro and early 1950s Chevrolet at the bottom of an Oklahoma lake on Tuesday. Skeletal remains could end up solving cold cases that have left families without answers for decades.
A fire that raged in forest land in and around Yosemite National Park has left a contiguous barren moonscape in the Sierra Nevada mountains that experts say is larger than any burned in centuries.
Child beauty pageants may soon be banned in France, after a surprise vote in the French Senate that rattled the pageant industry and raised questions about how the French relate to girls’ sexuality.
A sports tribunal has removed a Brazilian club from the fourth-division playoffs because its masseur stepped onto the field and made two key saves near the end of a match.
A double-decker bus collided with a passenger train in Canada’s capital Wednesday, ripping off the front of the bus and killing six people, police said. The crash occurred at the peak of morning rush hour. Officials said 34 people were injured.
A 14-year-old Georgia girl abducted in a home invasion robbery was found alive on Wednesday after a massive search by multiple law enforcement agencies. Ayvani Hope Perez was in good health and was reunited with her family, and two suspects were in custody.
The Federal Reserve isn’t yet convinced that the U.S. economy is healthy enough for the Fed to ease its stimulus even slightly. The Fed’s cautious message Wednesday surprised — and pleased — investors, as Wall Street surged to a record high.
An Ohio man who confessed in an online video to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after a night of heavy drinking pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide.
Through a wall at his Rhode Island hotel, Aaron Alexis could hear them — voices harassing him, wanting to harm him. He couldn’t sleep. He believed people were following him.
A trove of Timothy Leary files, much of it previously unpublished, could shed new light on the LSD guru, his controversial research into psychedelic drugs and the emergence of the ’60s counterculture.
Starbucks says guns are no longer welcome in its cafes, though it is stopping short of an outright ban on firearms.
The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009. The stories of the 12 who were gunned down and a police officer who survived are told here.
A Spanish city is seeking a missing millionaire. Somebody bought a lottery ticket in the northern city of La Coruna that won 4.7 million euros — but lost the ticket in the shop.
The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was being treated for mental illness in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.
A home surveillance video shows a South Florida man accused of killing his wife and then posting a picture of her bloody body on Facebook walk away from a confrontation and then return a few moments later to fire a gun.
