The number of Americans killed in gun homicides on Christmas Day is comparable to the number of people killed in gun homicides in an entire year in places like Australia…
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was “indisputable” that the boy was gunned down while drawing the pistol from his waistband – either to hand the weapon over to…
Republican presidential contender, businessman Donald Trump addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump’s latest attack on potential Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is to go…
At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area on Saturday and caused substantial damage. That, plus the flooding in Missouri…
Parkview Samaritan helicopter pilot Brad Wilson checks the rotor blade for damage after being struck by a bird while flying. Reports of helicopter bird strikes are up dramatically in recent…
Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance, along with downstairs neighbor Bettie Jones, 55, police said. Jones was hit accidentally by the gunfire,…
It was the latest of a succession of powerful weather events across the country, from heavy snow in New Mexico, west Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle to flash flooding in…
Taylor Taylor, 36, is a documentary filmmaker, musician and political activist. She’s also an emerging star in the world of technology criticism. She’s not paranoid, but she keeps duct tape…
BAGHDAD – Islamic State fighters are putting up a tough fight in the militant-held city of Ramadi, slowing down the advance of Iraqi forces, a senior Iraqi commander said Sunday.…
Ryan It was the first year of Barack Obama’s two presidential terms when the GOP ran both the House and Senate. That meant a blend of compromise and confrontation. Each…
Some things that need to be left behind in 2015
“Guys please help me,” the blogger wrote, ignorant of the fact that her words would echo in eternity. “Is this dress white and gold, or blue and black?” “The dress,”…
Kurt Sanford dances to the song YMCA during the Lavender Gala for LGBT elders at Nissi’s Bistro in Lafayette, Colo. Project Visibility, a program offered by Boulder County Aging Services,…
NEW YORK – Mass shootings and attacks weighed heavily on the minds of Americans in 2015, according to a new AP-Times Square poll that found most believe this year was…
Gay marriage ruling ranked No. 2
President Barack Obama listens as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during their bilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila, Philippines, on Nov. 19. The president is…
Peggy Pauly, a minister’s wife from Yerrington, Nev., helped organize local efforts to demand additional cleanup work at an abandoned copper mine near Yerrington. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to…
Pope Francis delivers his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Friday.L’Osservatore Romano/ pool…
ABUJA, Nigeria – A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria on Thursday, killing more than 100 people lining up to refill their…
From left, Aspen High School students Juliette Woodrow, Ethan Burkley and Grace Ferguson pose in Aspen on Dec. 11. Ferguson is setting new heights for herself and the high school’s…
Bobby Hill, co-owner of Countryside Pet Supply in West Plains, Mo., says the ScoopFree Automatic Litter Box has turned his company into an $8 million-a-year business. Sales of the litter…
Elias Weiss Friedman, author of The Dogist, explains that there are few people in his photographs of dogs because they can be “distracting. This is the dog’s moment.”Courtesy Jeff Hodson…
Typical days involve feeding tubes, breathing treatments, medications and assembly-line showers, not to mention taking kids to school, making dinner and washing clothes. “It’s just kind of like a well-oiled…
The Air Force launched a new program last week to begin training its pilots and air-traffic controllers about the hazards posed by small drones flying near military bases.Rick Bowmer/Associated Press…
Transportation Security Administration agents check travelers identifications on Nov. 15 at a security check point area in Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Sometime in 2016 people from…
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, center, wished “peace and love” for all after he arrived in Bethlehem Thursday to lead worshippers in a Midnight Mass at the Church of…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A long-standing dispute sparked a shooting at a crowded North Carolina shopping mall on Christmas Eve, police said, and an off-duty officer fatally shot an armed person…
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Dartmouth College professor Nathaniel Dominy is recommending that children leave Santa’s favorite reindeer cookies this Christmas Eve because Rudolf’s bright red nose causes him to lose lots of body heat…
