Pirate attack

Pirate attack , The European Union Naval Force says Somali  pirates who took control of a cargo vessel with 14 Indian sailors on board fle...

Vermont marijuana

Vermont marijuana , Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill Thursday that made the state the 17th in the United States to decriminali...

New Hampshire slaves

New Hampshire slaves, In a move some might call "too little, too late," New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a bill Friday f...

$10 apartments

$10 apartments , In New York City, $10 can get you four subway rides, three slices of pizza, five cups of coffee, or lunch for a day or two...

Neha, 13-year-old 162 IQ

13-year-old 162 IQ ,  A teenager from south-west London scored so high in a Mensa IQ test for people under the age of 18 that she has been i...

School helicopter crash

School helicopter crash , The crash of a medical helicopter that killed three crewmembers in southeastern Kentucky on Thursday was the fo...

22 kids by 14 women

22 kids 14 women , A man from Nashville has admitted to fathering 22 kids by 14 women . The man in the middle of one of Metro's most ex...

Kids alcohol mimosas

Kids alcohol mimosas , One restaurant is feeling the squeeze after allegedly serving young children mimosas instead of orange juice. Jere...

National Donut Day

National Donut Day , June 7, is National Donut Day , and Dunkin' Donuts , America's all-day, everyday stop for coffee, donuts and b...

NBA 2K14 cover

NBA 2K14 cover , Kobe got a couple in the late 90s and another one in 2009. Jordan shared one with Bird in 1988, but got his own in 2010. B...

Alaska Fishing trip

Alaskan Fishing Trip is the angler's dream come true with some of the most incredible fishing in the world. Alaska's oceans, river...

iPhone trade-in

iPhone trade-in , Apple is reportedly readying a new program that will allow iPhone owners to trade in their old handsets for a credit tow...

Oldest tumor

Oldest tumor , The oldest human tumor ever found — by more than 100,000 years — has been discovered in the rib of a Neanderthal. The bo...

Bikini ban

Bikini ban , Contestants in Indonesia's 2013 Miss World pageant are banned from wearing bikinis during the swimsuit round, according t...

Ga. ambulance crash

Ga. ambulance crash , An ambulance with its lights and sirens on collided Thursday with a semitrailer on a Georgia highway , killing the two...

Scotch 6,000 gallons

Scotch 6,000 gallons , A tractor-trailer carrying a tank of 6,000 gallons of Scotch whiskey overturned on a New Jersey road this week — an...

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, After Trent Reznor let slip last week that he had secretly recorded a new Nine Inch Nails album over the past year, he...

'Evil Elmo'

'Evil Elmo' , A homeless man with a history of playing an evil Elmo version of the ‘Sesame Street’ character  from coast to coast w...

Tropical Storm Andrea

Tropical Storm Andrea , Heavy rain poured down on much of Florida Thursday as the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season he...

Shot senior graduation

Shot senior graduation , This teen, shot in the head at a party two months ago, recovered in time to take part in his high school graduatio...

Pope: wasting food is like stealing from poor

Pope wasting food , Pope Francis denounced on Wednesday what he called a "culture of waste" in an increasingly consumerist world ...

Drunk governor

Drunk governor , Gov. Deval Patrick went to his rural home the day after the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured and got...

Carpet $33.7 million

Carpet $33.7 million , A Persian rug from the early 17th century has sold for $33.7 million in New York City. Sotheby...

News crew attacked

News crew attack , A Rhode Island TV station says a woman threw a rock, waved a baseball bat and urged her dogs to attack a news crew repo...

Beer can DNA Samples Help Police Identify Burglary Suspect

Beer can DNA , Authorities were able to catch a burglary suspect because he left his DNA at the scene, in a rather hilarious error in any ...

Taco Bell firing employee for taco licking

Taco Bell firing , Taco Bell is firing a California employee who was photographed licking a stack of taco shells . The shot was made in Ma...

Building collapse

Building collapse , A vacant building demolished collapsed onto a thrift store in downtown Philadelphia Wednesday morning, trapping more th...

High-school senior shot in his graduation

Shot senior graduation ,  For most high-school students, graduation is a major achievement. For Northwestern High School senior Balaal Hol...

Jailed U.S. filmmaker

Jailed U.S. filmmaker ,  The sister of a U.S. filmmaker jailed on espionage charges in Venezuela says he has been released and is on his wa...

Happy prostitute ads

Happy prostitute ads , So-called " Happy Prostitute Ads " have been dropped by the Brazilian Health Ministry amid backlash and cr...

Woman of the decade

Woman of the decade , The Spice Girls may be officially out of commission, but "Girl Power" is very much alive and well. Accord...

North Korea reactor

North Korea reactor , North Korea may be just one or two months away from restarting a reactor to produce plutonium, potentially allowing ...

Transgender Navy SEAL

Transgender Navy SEAL , In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately . Retired SEAL Kristin Beck 's new memoir, published on Tues...

Fire kills 119

Fire kills 119 , A fire at a poultry plant in northeastern China trapped workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse, killing at least 119 ...