In Michigan, you’re expected to leave snowy boots in the mudroom before going inside. In Alaska, boots are taken off in “Arctic entries.” In Japan, Thailand and many other countries, you wouldn’t dream of entering a home with your shoes on, regardless of the season.
Authorities say a Nebraska man is getting his motorcycle back — 46 years after it was stolen from his backyard.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics torch will be sent to the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft this week and astronauts will then carry it outside the station.
A London family was forced out of their home recently after discovering dozens of deadly spiders hatching in a bunch of supermarket bananas.
Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life.
A 20-year-old gunman intent on dying fired multiple shots inside New Jersey’s largest shopping mall, trapping hundreds of customers and employees for hours as police scoured stores for the shooter, who was found dead early Tuesday of a self-inflicted wound, authorities said. There were no other injuries.
The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite. A private foundation is providing a $500,000 grant so TV writers will have information about the Affordable Care Act stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
Relatives of the suspect charged in last week’s Los Angeles airport shooting offered sympathy Monday to the family of the TSA officer who was killed, saying they were “shocked and numbed” by the deadly rampage.
To appreciate their vastly different strategies in the race for Virginia governor, simply look at how the candidates spent Monday, the final full day of campaigning before polls open.
A Michigan woman who posted a picture of herself online dressed as a Boston Marathon bombing victim says she and her family have received death threats because of the costume.
Firefighters rescued a 19-year-old New York University student who became trapped between two buildings in lower Manhattan.
They’re in a mystical business with few guarantees, so perhaps anyone could foresee tension between psychics and the law.
A circus llama has been returned safely after a group of drunken French teenagers abducted the animal and took it for a ride on Bordeaux’s tram system.
Nicknamed “Fat Leonard,” the gregarious Malaysian businessman is well known by U.S. Navy commanders in the Pacific, where his company has serviced warships for 25 years.
Zoos around the country will soon find out whether a beagle named Elvis can let them know when their polar bears are pregnant.
