An Iowa man got out of a ticket recently after a tree fell on the police officer who had pulled him over.
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Police in New York City say actor Alec Baldwin has been arrested for riding a bike the wrong way on the street and acting belligerently toward the arresting officers.
In many ways, Cody Lewis represents the changing face of heroin in America. He is in his 20s, lives in the suburbs and graduated to heroin after years of getting high with other drugs. “My whole existence,” he says, “was just finding ways to get high.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs realized that the emergency room of its $585 million hospital in North Las Vegas would be too small but decided to finish the project and go back and fix it later, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told Congress on Thursday.
A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.
Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear to search the rubble Thursday for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body, while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with New York’s aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.
Officials across much of the Muslim world said Thursday that the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film “Noah” will not be shown in local theaters because it could offend viewers.
A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, slamming into a crowd outside a nightclub and killing a man on a bicycle and a woman on a moped.
A handful of Idaho hockey fans have sued a Boise arena, saying they were duped into thinking a $7 beer contains more brew than a $4 beer.
Police say a pregnant woman who was loading groceries into the trunk of her car was struck and killed by a private snow plow in New York City.
The son-in-law of a Tennessee couple killed when a package exploded at their home has been charged with first-degree murder in their deaths.
Rosemary Pisani said that when she met her husband, Lou, it wasn’t love at first sight.
Facebook is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, formally opens Thursday. It’s considered a key marker in the emerging solar power industry.
Shocking decisions, historic sweeps and serious injuries. Here’s what to know about the Olympics for Thursday.