Witnesses heard screaming and yelling from a falling hot air balloon that had caught fire at a preview showing of the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival in Doswell, Virginia Friday. The missing passenger is said to be the director of basketball operations at the University of Richmond.
For fitness instructor Hildegard Gigl, exercise is the key to staying young. The workout group at her suburban apartment complex are all 75 and older.
Facing attack from a conservative GOP leader from Oklahoma, the Nevada Republican Party on Saturday defended its decision to remove from its platform references to gay marriage and abortion, two divisive social issues.
The Japanese-style pub in Tokyo’s Akasaka district, not far from the central government offices, encourages customers to embrace their loss of hair, not hide it.
The chemical, similar to pesticides and rat poison, that sickened at least three dogs at a local dog park in Gunbarrel, Colorado in April has been uncovered. A suspect has yet to be identified.
A San Francisco firefighter accused of accidentally running over a passenger thrown from the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport filed a lawsuit Friday against the San Francisco Fire Department.
Michelle Obama on Saturday decried the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing for nearly a month and used their plight to speak out for the rights of girls everywhere to get an education.
Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
After bombarding South Korea’s female president with sexist invectives, North Korea’s state news agency has fired off racist insults against President Barack Obama that U.S. officials condemn as “disgusting.”
Friends say 93-year-old Pearlie Golden still shopped at the grocery store and greeted friends with a jubilant “Hey, baby!” Now they and the mayor of this small Texas town want the police officer who shot and killed her gone.
After his 10th deployment, which caused severe injury, Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg was applauded at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and received a hero’s award Thursday at the Bellagio for his “selfless and courageous action.”
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev argue that statements he made to authorities after his arrest should be thrown out because he was questioned for 36 hours in a hospital room while suffering from gunshot wounds and without being told his rights.
The House has voted to establish a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, with Republicans vowing to dig deeper in a search for truth. Democrats say the election-year inquiry is actually a political ploy to raise campaign cash and motivate GOP voters, and they’re weighing a boycott. The vote Thursday was 232-186.
House Republicans on Thursday rammed through a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, vowing to pursue questions old and new in a search for truth. Nevada’s four representatives split along party lines.
Police are considering murder-suicide in the deaths of a family of four after an autopsy revealed they were killed by gunshot before the home caught fire. A handgun registered to renter Darrin Campbell was found at the scene, a home owned by tennis star James Blake.
