For the second day in a row, lightning has been blamed in the death of a visitor at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Nation and World
Because our celestial neighbor is relatively close to Earth, the full moon will appear to be unusually large.
Efforts to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn advanced degrees are gaining momentum in a small but growing number of U.S. schools, stirring a national debate about how best to compensate quality educators and angering teachers who say the extra training is valuable.
Police in Maine believe they have quacked the code for finding followers on social media.
Harry Potter actor David Legeno was found dead in Death Valley Sunday. Legeno, 50, famously appeared as werewolf Fenrir Greyback in multiple Harry Potter movies.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The earthquake early Saturday triggered a small tsunami.
The solar panels that Idaho inventor Scott Brusaw has built aren’t meant for rooftops. They are meant for roads, driveways, parking lots, bike trails and, eventually, highways.
A bus carrying Asian tourists flipped on its side on a busy highway in Grand Teton National Park, and seven people were hospitalized, park officials said.
A man accused of killing six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, after forcing his way into their suburban Houston home collapsed in court twice Friday as a prosecutor read out details of the crime.
Police in Virginia on Thursday backed off efforts to take sexually explicit photos of a 17-year-old to prove a sexting case against him.
Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year with the intention of accessing the files of federal employees who had applied for top-secret security clearances, according to The New York Times.
Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central America emerged Thursday as part of President Barack Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency request to address the immigration crisis on the southern border.
A high-priced prostitute charged in the overdose death of a Google executive aboard a yacht in California had searched online for how to legally defend herself after giving a lethal dose of heroin, police in California said Thursday, as authorities in Georgia reopened another overdose case.
A gunman dressed as a delivery man forced his way into his sister-in-law’s suburban Houston home where he held her children at gunpoint until their parents arrived. Then he opened fire, killing four of the children and the two adults, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Seven people died in a fast-moving Massachusetts apartment fire in the pre-dawn hours Thursday, officials said.
