Three skydivers spent about four hours atop the World Trade Center’s signature skyscraper taking in sights before parachuting off it, they said Tuesday in detailing a surreptitious stunt that raised questions about security and left them facing felony charges.
There’s still plenty of pomp and circumstance, inspiring words from lofty speakers and tossing tassels, but graduating from college today is very different from a generation or so ago.
Investigators trying to determine what caused the crash of a vintage airplane during a stunt at an air show said Monday that they will start by examining the wreckage and ground scars. The crash was one of several recreation-related deaths over the weekend across the U.S
All three lanes of Interstate 15 in Hesperia are closed in both directions after a construction worker’s blowtorch caught the overpass bridge’s wooden supports on fire. The freeway is Southern California’s main connector to Las Vegas and has been closed since 1:30 p.m.
After being stranded for five days in a crashed car, hikers found 43-year-old Kristin Hopkins of Highlands Ranch, Colorado off the highway in critical condition.
The World Health Organization has declared the escalation of polio cases across the globe an international public health emergency.
Target’s CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.
Police have seized a bed, a chest of drawers, a writing desk and documents from the homes of family members of a Megan Huntsman, the Utah woman accused of killing her newborn babies, according to documents made public Monday.
Th islamic leader of extremist group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” is threatening to sell the 300 kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls into slavery.
If Mickey Mouse is feeling his age at 86, scientists may have found just the tonic: the blood of younger mice. Older mice got stronger, exercised longer and performed better mentally after they were injected with blood from young mice.
A group of men on their way to the Kentucky Derby for a bachelor party made a gruesome discovery after they pulled their rented RV over in southeastern Minnesota: a body inside the vehicle’s exterior cargo compartment.
A group of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey performers plummeted 25 to 40 feet in a “larger-than-life” circus act, causing critical injury.
A man convicted of robbery in 2000 but never sent to prison until last year because of a clerical mistake walked free Monday after a judge lauded his “exemplary” behavior during 13 years of freedom.
Firefighters facing another hot and windy forecast worked Monday to battle a large wildfire in central Oklahoma that destroyed at least six homes and left one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control.
A pilot who had thrilled audiences for decades with acrobatic stunts was killed when his vintage biplane crashed upside-down on a runway at a Northern California air show at Travis Air Force Base.
