The man to beat at the World Series of Poker Main Event had an unrivaled tower of chips by night’s end and luck on his side. Joe McKeehen of Pennsylvania held an enormous lead going into the final three-day face-off with eight other players. Going into day two, he held… Read More

Donald Trump hadn’t gotten far into his opening monologue before trouble occurred. An off-screen heckler interrupted with a cry of “You’re a racist!” But the “heckler” was comedian Larry David, who before Trump arrived onstage had been seen impersonating Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. “Larry, what are you doing?” Trump… Read More

Paleontologists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on Thursday unveiled the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered as hundreds of people lined up to get a look. Scientists had cut open the giant plaster jacket that protected the skull as it was airlifted out of the… Read More

Durango, Colorado police are investigating an assault that involved a priest, a pope and a good Samaritan. Sgt. Deck Shaline tells The Durango Herald the suspect, who was dressed as a priest for Halloween, punched the victim and knocked him unconscious, then kicked him in the head several times early Sunday… Read More

A charter bus ran off Interstate 40 and hit a bridge abutment on a foggy night in Arkansas, killing as many as six people and injuring many others who were taken from the scene in ambulances. Arkansas State Police said the crash occurred about 1 a.m. Friday. A heavy storm… Read More

A 9-year-old Chicago boy who was fatally shot this week was “lured” from a park into an alley and executed because of his father’s alleged gang connections, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Thursday in a crime he described as among the most “unfathomable” of his 35 years in policing. Tyshawn… Read More

NASA’s Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. On Thursday, scientists reported that even today, the solar wind is stripping away about 100 grams of atmospheric gas every second. That’s about a quarter-pound a second lost to the… Read More

San Francisco police are looking for a male transgender who allegedly threatened a security guard with a hatchet after stealing a handbag from a department store. KCBS-Radio reports the robbery happened around Monday afternoon at a Bloomingdale’s store in downtown San Francisco. Police say the woman entered the store and took… Read More

The National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday said it was investigating the death of two dolphins found washed ashore in California shortly after Navy ships were using sonar in nearby waters. Necropsies have been conducted, and the animals are being analyzed to try to determine what caused them to get… Read More