History scholars are getting a new trove of priceless presidential papers to pore over at Southern California’s Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. The Huntington announced Thursday that 340 artifacts focusing on presidential administrations from the 18th to the 20th centuries are being donated by L. Dennis and Susan… Read More

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage Thursday and had emergency surgery. The league made the announcement about Stern’s condition in a statement, saying its thoughts and prayers were with the 77-year-old Stern’s family. Sponsored: This Fruit Does What?! (You’ll never believe it) Stern served exactly 30… Read More

Barrels of raw pork shoulder were riding fat in a tractor trailer pulled over by North Carolina deputies. Approximately $3 million in cash was recovered from the barrels Saturday, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Tuesday. The driver of the tractor trailer was accused of failing to maintain… Read More

A Wisconsin teenager who was shot by a police officer after he allegedly pointed a pellet gun at another student’s head says he was “tired of being picked on,” according to criminal charges filed Monday, Tyrone Smith, 18, was charged as an adult with several charges, including second-degree recklessly endangering… Read More

Two Chicago Park District workers escaped without serious injury after the salt truck they were navigating along an icy lakefront bike path slid into Lake Michigan Wednesday morning. The pickup truck hit a slick spot and slipped backward into the water on Chicago’s near North Side around 7:20 a.m., said… Read More

Two Wyoming sheriff’s deputies channeled their inner cowboy and lassoed a deer flailing in a frigid pond after it fell through thin ice, authorities said Wednesday. A new, hidden cause of memory loss… [Sponsored] Sublette County sheriff’s Deputies Justin Hays and Joshua Peterson responded to a report Tuesday afternoon that… Read More

To Matt Ryan, that’s still his little cousin. Never mind that Mike McGlinchey is a 6-foot-8, 310-pound offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers. Sponsored: This Fruit Does What?! (You’ll never believe it) “He’s a kid to me,” Ryan quipped, “but he’s out there playing like a grown man.” The… Read More

A northwestern Arkansas woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a judge and another man in exchange for thousands of dollars in electronics and art. Sleeping THIS way increases joint comfort [Sponsored] Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green sentenced Dorris… Read More

A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, “they,” has an accolade all its own. Sponsored: Do THIS before bed –and wake up with brand-new hips The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313% increase in look-ups on the… Read More

Wayland Baptist senior guard J.J. Culver became the fourth college basketball player to score 100 or more points in a game, reaching the century mark in a 124-60 win over Southwestern Adventist on Tuesday night. TORCH calories with a pinch of this! [Sponsored] Culver hit 34 of 62 shots, 12… Read More