"Central Park 5" to Settle Suit for $40 Million: AP
The five black and Latino men who spent years in prison after being convicted in 1990 of raping and beating a white woman in Central Park will receive a $40 million settlement in a lawsuit they filed...
View Article5 Things to Know About New House GOP Leader McCarthy
House Republicans selected a new majority leader Thursday, tapping Rep. Kevin McCarthy to the conference's No. 2 post. The California native replaces outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who...
View ArticleDay Care Duct-Taped Kids to Mats During Nap Time: Mom
A Texas day care owner used duct tape to hold down children while they were supposed to be napping, the mother of one of the children in Parker County said. A state investigation of Heart 2 Heart...
View ArticleWorkers Rescued From Dangling Scaffolding in Midtown
Authorities rescued two men trapped on scaffolding that apparently became unhinged on one side as they were working at a midtown high-rise Friday morning, fire officials say. The men were being...
View Article1 Dead in NJ Building Collapse
A construction worker was trapped and killed when the last standing wall of a building under demolition collapsed on top of him. Child, Teens Thrown From Pickup in Deadly Crash The worker was taking...
View ArticlePolar Bears Return to SoCal After Cross-Country Maternity Mission
SeaWorld’s two polar bears have returned to sunny San Diego after a cross-country maternity mission. For past five months, females Szenja and Snowflake have been spending some time mating with male...
View ArticleWandering Turtles Clog Runways at JFK
Wildlife biologists working to keep turtles from wandering onto the runways of Kennedy Airport are beginning to see their efforts pay off. JFK Airport, situated in the middle of Jamaica Bay, has been a...
View ArticleMotorcyclist's Death-Defying Stunt Saves Him in Car Crash
A motorcyclist walked away from an accident relatively unscathed after a near-death car accident sent him cartwheeling over a vehicle in the middle of a busy intersection. Mike Smith was riding his...
View ArticleTracy Morgan Out of Hospital with "Long Way to Go"
Nearly two weeks after a horrific car crash that claimed his friend's life and left him critically injured, Tracy Morgan has been transferred from a New Jersey hospital to a rehabilitation center to...
View Article"I Knew Something Was Up": Man Rescues Abducted Teen
Philadelphia resident Steve Reiff, 64, was getting into his car about to go to a routine doctor's appointment on Wednesday afternoon when he was approached by a frantic 15-year-old who said he'd been...
View ArticleFacebook Down for the Second Time This Week
Facebook appeared to be experiencing an outage on Friday afternoon. Users attempting to log on would see either a blank screen or an error message. This is the second time this week the popular social...
View ArticlePinball Illegal? '30s Ban Reversed
Time to lay those quarters down in Oakland, after 80 years of pinball perdition. Oakland is reversing a law passed in the 1930s which outlawed pinball machines as a form of gambling, according to the...
View ArticleMan Convicted of Neighbor's Murder
A jury has found a San Diego County man guilty of first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon in the death of his neighbor over a tree-trimming feud last year. Defendant Michael Vilkin of...
View ArticleMom Drives Daughter to Fight, Joins in Scuffle: Police
A Long Island mother has been accused of driving her 15-year-old daughter to fight another teen at a park Thursday afternoon and then joining in on the scuffle once they arrived, police say. Dorka...
View Article1-Minute Parking Photo Goes Viral
Every city has its share of ridiculous parking signs. But a 1-minute parking sign typo in Los Angeles is definitely a cut above the rest. A photo of the sign made its way to Imgur and was tracked down...
View ArticleBlaze Devours $24M Yacht in SoCal
The owner of a $24 million yacht that caught fire in a Chula Vista boat yard Thursday said he cried when he saw online video of the vessel going up in flames. “Am I angry? No. Anger is not the right...
View ArticleHernandez Wants Jail Transfer for Safety Concerns
Lawyers for Aaron Hernandez want him transferred to a jail closer to Boston, saying they have concerns about his safety at the Bristol County Jail where he's currently being held on murder charges....
View ArticleMan Charged With Cold Case Murder
More than three decades after a woman was sexually assaulted and murdered in her Silver Lake apartment, prosecutors have charged a convicted killer in connection with her death. Thirty-six-year-old...
View ArticleUC Task Force to Crack Down on Rape
The University of California unveiled a new task force on Friday that aims to further the sex crime prevention policy across its 10 campuses. University officials and students will work together to...
View ArticleBoy, 13, Dies After Being Pulled From Bronx River: Police
Two teenage cousins who jumped into the Bronx River Friday afternoon to cool off quickly went under water, and one of them later died in the hospital after being pulled from the river by rescuers,...
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