The two University of Richmond basketball coaches killed in a weekend hot-air balloon crash are being remembered for their contributions. The pilot, known affectionately as “Capt. Kirk,” had been flying for 20 years.
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Chrysler is recalling 780,000 minivans to replace window switches that can short-circuit and overheat if exposed to moisture. Chrysler Group said Friday that it knows of 36 incidents related to the minivan’s faulty switches, but is unaware of any related injuries or accidents.
Thirty-five years before Nevada became a state, Mexican merchant Antonio Armijo led a caravan of 60 men and 100 mules to blaze a trail that would later put Las Vegas on the map.
These new species of frogs are found exclusively in the jungle mountains of Western Ghats, but biologists say populations could be dwindling due to climate change and drying habitats.
Witnesses heard screaming and yelling from a falling hot air balloon that had caught fire at a preview showing of the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival in Doswell, Virginia Friday. The missing passenger is said to be the director of basketball operations at the University of Richmond.
For fitness instructor Hildegard Gigl, exercise is the key to staying young. The workout group at her suburban apartment complex are all 75 and older.
John Hamm, the star of AMC’s 60s drama “Mad Men” and upcoming Disney flick, “Million Dollar Arm,” met his match in wax Friday at the unveiling of his “silent brooding” likeness at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York City.
The chemical, similar to pesticides and rat poison, that sickened at least three dogs at a local dog park in Gunbarrel, Colorado in April has been uncovered. A suspect has yet to be identified.
A San Francisco firefighter accused of accidentally running over a passenger thrown from the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport filed a lawsuit Friday against the San Francisco Fire Department.
Michelle Obama on Saturday decried the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing for nearly a month and used their plight to speak out for the rights of girls everywhere to get an education.
Every few years, something so jarring, so very traumatizing occurs that it shakes a wide swath of America to its very core. It happens whenever we’re forced to begrudgingly respect some formerly eyeroll-inducing piece of teen-friendly man candy. Now, it’s Zac Efron’s turn.
Friends say 93-year-old Pearlie Golden still shopped at the grocery store and greeted friends with a jubilant “Hey, baby!” Now they and the mayor of this small Texas town want the police officer who shot and killed her gone.
After his 10th deployment, which caused severe injury, Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg was applauded at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and received a hero’s award Thursday at the Bellagio for his “selfless and courageous action.”
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev argue that statements he made to authorities after his arrest should be thrown out because he was questioned for 36 hours in a hospital room while suffering from gunshot wounds and without being told his rights.
Police are considering murder-suicide in the deaths of a family of four after an autopsy revealed they were killed by gunshot before the home caught fire. A handgun registered to renter Darrin Campbell was found at the scene, a home owned by tennis star James Blake.