Minimum wage hike

Minimum wage hike ,  States and municipalities across the country are leading a localized push to raise the minimum wage, driven largely by...

Texas A&M stadium fall, Worker killed

Texas A&M stadium fall , An employee at a company working on a $450 million stadium renovation at Texas A&M University plunged to h...

Pizza Hut manager fired over Thanksgiving dispute

Pizza Hut manager ,  Pizza Hut has offered to rehire the manager of a northern Indiana restaurant who was fired over his refusal to open u...

Exploding whale video

Exploding whale video,   video of a dead whale exploding went viral. A dead Sperm Whale explodes  in the Faroe Islands after a man is cutti...

Obama tells heckler he can't halt deportations unilaterally. Is that true?

Obama heckler , President Obama was winding up a speech on immigration reform Monday, when a heckler interrupted him. “Our families ar...

Family Guy Dog Brian Griffin Is Killed Off

Family Guy Bria n, Fans of the long-running TV show Family Guy have been left shocked after Brian, one of its main characters, was killed o...

Boeing airliner crash

Boeing airliner crash , A Boeing 737 airliner crashed onSunday in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people onboard and spotlightin...

400-pound running back: Tony Picard is an unstoppable force

400-pound running back , When thinking of large running backs, William "Refrigerator" Perry and Jerome Bettis probably come to mi...

Alligator at O'Hare Airport

Alligator at O'Hare Airport , A small alligator found under an escalator at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has left auth...

Tropical Storm Sonia heads toward Mexico

Tropical Storm Sonia , A new tropical storm is expected to make landfall Sunday or Monday in Mexico , already reeling from this year's ...

McDonald's ketchup: McDonald's Drops Heinz Ketchup

McDonald's ketchup , In what is sure to be the divorce of the century, McDonald's, the world's largest quick-service chain by sa...

Troops liposuction to pass Pentagon's body fat test ?

Troops liposuction , A number of military personnel are turning to the surgical procedure to remove excess fat from around the waist so th...

Penn State settlement :Pay Nearly $60 M In Abuse Settlement

Penn State settlement , Penn State has reached a $59.7 million settlement with 26 young men who accused former assistant football coach J...

World's tallest dog died last Thursday

World's tallest dog , Giant George, verified as the world’s tallest dog by Guinness World Records, died last Thursday, one month before...

Kraft cheese recall

Kraft cheese recall , Kraft Foods Group is voluntarily recalling some varieties of Kraft and Polly-O String Cheese and String Cheese Twis...

Safeway buyout report

Safeway buyout report , Safeway Inc. shares jumped Wednesday on reports that several firms are considering a buyout of the supermarket chain...

Fired waitress: Hair highlights got me fired

Fired waitress hair , A woman fired from her job working as a waitress at a Hooters in Baltimore, Md., for having "unnatural" ha...

WWII plane crashes in Texas, killing two

WWII plane crash , A World War II-era P-51 Mustang plane owned by a Texas museum and once used by the Air Force of El Salvador crashed into...

Plane crash in Arkansas : Husband and wife found dead

Plane crash Arkansas , A husband and wife from Pryor, Okla., died Monday when their small plane crashed on its journey from Alabama to Clar...

1943 Kefalonia massacres :Former Nazi officer sentenced to life

1943 Kefalonia massacres ,  Alfred Stork, 90, who lives in Germany, was convicted by a Italian military court for his role in the executi...

NBC cancels shows

NBC cancels shows , NBC says it's canceling two freshman shows, "Ironside" and "Welcome to the Family." "Iro...

Shoeless Indian boys win at basketball

Shoeless Indian boys , A team of Trique Indian boys swept through a youth basketball tournament despite their generally short stature and t...

Miami boat capsizes

Miami boat capsizes ,  A small boat carrying 15 suspected migrants from Haiti and Jamaica capsized off the coast of Miami, killing four of...

Oreos addictive ?

Oreos addictive , Oreos as addictive as cocaine? A new study purports to draw a link, but don't check into a treatment center for your ...

Meteorite Russia: Pulled from Lake

Meteorite Russia , Divers raised a coffee-table-size chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite from its muddy home at the bottom of Russia's L...

Florida bully case, 2 girls arrested

Florida bully case , Two Florida girls who were primarily responsible for bullying a 12-year-old girl who killed herself were arrested afte...

Social Security increase

Social Security increase , For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can...

Tropical Storm Octave

Tropical Storm Octave , Tropical Storm Octave strengthened south of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Sunday. The storm, about 3...

Drunk Dial Congress

Drunk Dial Congress , Americans are not thrilled with their federal government at the moment. If you're one of the 60 percent of Americ...

Train crash with truck in high-speed

Train crash , Dramatic footage shows a train crashing into a truck which appears to be parked across the tracks in Texas. Dramatic am...

Jesus tattoo billboard

Jesus tattoo billboard , A series of billboards showing Jesus covered in tattoos has upset many Christians living in the Texas city where th...