Believing that Islamic State captives held on a compound in northern Iraq faced “imminent mass execution,” dozens of U.S. special operations troops and Iraqi forces raided the site Thursday, freeing approximately 70 Iraqi prisoners. It was an operation that saw the first American killed in combat in the country since the… Read More
One dead, three wounded over college dice game?!
One man was killed and three women were wounded in an on-campus shooting stemming from a fight over a dice game on the campus of Tennessee State University, police said Friday. The 19-year-old who died in the Thursday night shooting was not enrolled at the school, police spokesman Don Aaron… Read More
[Must See] Wild beavers parachuting into Idaho!
Furs away! More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers… Read More
Organ recipients meet donors who saved their lives
For the surgeons, it was just a donation chain linking three patients from three Michigan hospitals to three strangers willing to give them working kidneys. For the people involved, though, it meant a second chance for three lives. Thursday, they got a chance to meet their life-saving donor swap partners…. Read More
Thrusters fired! The next step in deep space exploration
The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons was programmed to fire its thrusters Thursday afternoon, putting it on track to fly past a recently discovered, less than 30-mile-wide object out on the solar system… Read More
Sold! Compound from armed standoff hits auction block
Two New Hampshire properties — including a 100-acre compound at the center of a 2007 armed standoff with federal agents that featured underground escape routes — were finally sold at auction Thursday. The auction punctuated a two-year effort to sell the properties belonging to tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown,… Read More
Beauty queen arrives to help class “study”
There she is, Miss America… in class! Former Miss America Kate Shindle has become the subject of an Ivy League classroom. A Brown University class being offered for the first time this fall is giving students the opportunity to examine how and why pageantry and femininity have become linked in… Read More
Georgia man gets DUI while driving… what!?
We’re not sure how proud mom would be about this one. A Conyers, GA man has been accused of DUI and public drunkenness… while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a grocery store. Multiple media outlets are reporting that 48-year-old Danny W. Mitchell was cited Friday at a Kroger supermarket. According… Read More
Man reunited with car 30 YEARS after it was stolen
A northeastern Ohio man has been reunited with his car after it was reported stolen more than 30 years ago. The (Canton) Repository reports that 52-year-old Ron Reolfi bought the 1968 Chevrolet Camaro for around $600 when he was 19. The North Canton man last saw the car on Oct…. Read More
Scientists: MASSIVE earthquake about to hit US
Get ready, California – the big one IS coming. There is a 99.9 percent chance of a magnitude-5 or greater earthquake striking within three years in the greater Los Angeles area, where a similar sized tremor caused more than $12 million in damage last year, according to a study by… Read More