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Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing at JFK

A Delta flight had to make an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport Wednesday evening because of hydraulic pressure problems, officials say.  Delta Flight 886 was scheduled to land at LaGuardia but had...

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Small Tsunami Waves in SoCal

Small tsunami waves measuring just a few inches arrived on the Southern California coast Wednesday hours after a magnitude-8.2 earthquake off the coast of Chile. Strong currents were expected in...

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Mom, 4-Year-Old Stuck at Fort Hood During Shooting

A mother who was picking up her 4-year-old son from soccer practice on the Fort Hood post when Wednesday’s frightening shooting occurred said the "only thing I could tell him was somebody’s not playing...

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Chinatown Skin Infection Outbreak Spreads

The number of New Yorkers suspected of having a rare skin infection that comes from handling raw seafood, causing skin lesions, pain and swelling to the hands and arms and even difficulty moving...

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NorCal Men Sold Black Rhino Horns: Feds

A grand jury has indicted two Bay Area men with illegally selling endangered black rhinoceros horns that used to belong to an elderly man who wanted to get rid of them before moving to Thailand. Court...

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David Letterman's Great Moments

David Letterman has announced he will retire in 2015, after more three decades as a defining fixture of the late night television landscape.Photo Credit: NBC via Getty Images

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MTA Worker Written Up Over Pantless Subway Ride on Day Off

An MTA worker who stripped down to his underwear for the annual No Pants Subway Ride staged by Improv Everywhere was written up and reprimanded by a supervisor for engaging in "conduct unbecoming" even...

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TSA Worker Saves Woman

A Transportation Security Administration employee is being hailed as a hero for putting his life on the line to save a woman laying on Chicago Transit Authority train tracks Wednesday. But to hear...

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Army Hair Rules Biased: Petition

An online petition is demanding that the military reconsiders its most recent guidelines regarding soldier appearance, saying the new rules for hair length discriminate against women of color who...

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A History of Shootings at U.S. Military Installations

The history of gun attacks at military facilities in the United States in many ways reflects those in society at large: they run the gamut from domestic attacks and drunken fights to politically...

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WATCH: Dunkin' Donuts Shut Down After Rat Video Goes Viral

The Health Department shut down a Manhattan Dunkin' Donuts following an inspection it conducted after a patron's video showing rats crawling all over baked goods in the display case went viral. The...

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Mozilla CEO Quits After Backlash

Mozilla's newly-appointed CEO Brendan Eich has stepped down following calls for him to resign over his support for California's anti-gay marriage bill Prop. 8. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's board chairman,...

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New SELF Editor After Tutu Backlash

SELF magazine is getting a new editor-in-chief, Condé Nast has announced, just one week after a huge public backlash over the magazine bashing a cancer survivor’s tutu. In a news release Thursday,...

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Twisters, Softball-Sized Hail in TX

Severe thunderstorms are believed to have spawned as many as two tornadoes in North Texas Thursday, while peppering Denton and Collin counties with hail as large as softballs. All weather warnings...

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Bullet Hits School Bus Filled With Kids in Shooting: Police

Police say a man was wounded and a school bus carrying special needs children was struck by a bullet during a shooting in Newark Thursday afternoon.  Officers were called to the 100 block on 1st Street...

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Welfare Fraud Couple in Court

The couple facing welfare fraud charges while living on a luxury yacht in South Florida appeared in court Thursday, where they waived extradition to Minnesota. Colin and Andrea Chisholm appeared before...

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3 Die of Meningitis in LA

A day after health officials said at least eight cases of the most dangerous form of meningitis hit Los Angeles County since January, officials reported that three men died from it. The three men,...

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Court Stenographer Types "I Hate My Job" Repeatedly: Report

Officials at a Manhattan court are scrambling to make sense of botched court transcripts in 30 cases after the stenographer allegedly typed gibberish and, in one case, "I hate my job, I hate my job,"...

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Illinois Soldier Killed in Fort Hood Shooting

A downstate Illinois soldier was among the victims killed in Wednesday's Fort Hood shooting. U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Owens, 37, an Effingham native, was fatally shot in the chest during the attack. He...

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Civil Rights Museum Set To Reopen

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee reopens today after a massive renovation project.

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