Officials say a 14-year-old high school student has been taken into custody after shooting a classmate at their high school in the California city of Palmdale. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Capt. Darran Harris tells KTTV Friday that the student was taken into custody and a gun was recovered at the scene. The shooting happened at […]
Congress passes bloated $1.3 trillion spending bill
Congress gave final approval Friday to a giant $1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House. Senate passage shortly after midnight averted a third federal shutdown […]
This Halloween decoration scared her neighbors so bad, they called the cops!
Spooky, but safe! A dummy placed face down in a Detroit woman’s front yard as a Halloween prank has prompted repeated visits by police. Larethia Haddon says police showed up Tuesday, the first day she put the dummy out. Officer Jennifer Moreno tells The Detroit News that officers arrived again Wednesday and Thursday. By Friday, there […]
Rock star to Trump: Don’t use our song!
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign committee on Saturday. The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On’” or any of Tyler’s […]
ISIS or another terror group? Mystery around deadly Turkish bombings
Turkish investigators claim to be close to identifying one of the suicide bombers in the country’s deadliest attack in years, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday, adding that the Islamic State group was the “No. 1 priority” of the investigation. However, in an interview with private NTV television, Davutoglu also said the evidence pointed to a different […]
Clean or unsportsmanlike? The leg-breaking baseball slide everyone is talking about
Whether you think it was a clean play, or a cheapshot, this much is certain: Anyone who bemoans that baseball’s gone soft never covered second base with Chase Utley bearing down on a potential double play. Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Utley was suspended for two playoff games by Major League Baseball on Sunday night following his […]
Midwest woman goes “medieval” on home invader
En Garde! An Indiana woman refused to be a damsel in distress, and instead used her training in medieval combat to fight off and capture a home intruder. The Indianapolis Star reports 43-year-old Karen Dolley of Indianapolis threw punches until she had the man cornered during the Thursday night break-in. She then kept him subdued with a Japanese […]
Whoa! Big changes coming to Facebook
Big changes are coming to the way you ‘like’ things on Facebook. Soon, the company may add Love, Angry, Haha, Sad, Yay and Wow as responses. Facebook is adding a range of new emotional reactions to the iconic thumbs-up icon it launched in 2009. You won’t see the new emoji right away unless you live in […]
Scientists concerned about “zombie” honeybees
It’s not exactly primetime television like “The Walking Dead,” but scientists are still concerned about zombie-like bees. Honeybees are being threatened by tiny flies that infect them and lead them to lurch and stagger around like zombies. The afflicted bees often make uncharacteristic night flights, sometimes buzzing around porch lights before dying. Well-documented on the West […]
See this prince get baptized (pics)
The sixth in line to the Swedish throne, the newborn son of Princess Madeleine and New York banker Christopher O’Neill, was baptized Sunday near Stockholm. Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf, also to be known as the Duke of Angermanland after a province in northern Sweden, is the first grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf, who has […]
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