The Associated Press just reported that authorities in Arizona are checking into another possible Thursday on a freeway in the Phoenix area, where electronic billboards are flashing warnings to drivers amid a spate of shootings that have unnerved residents across the city. The state Department of Public Safety said a passenger car’s window was damaged […]

I can’t say it’s an exact match, but I will admit he DOES look a bit like my Aunt Ethel … Scientists say they’ve discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa. The creature shows […]

LONDON (AP) — Judy Carne, a star of the U.S. comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died in a British hospital. She was 76. She was famous for popularizing the “Sock it to Me” phrase on the hit TV show that ran from 1967 to 1973. Her death was confirmed Tuesday in an e-mail […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Scientists say a baby has been born to an endangered group of killer whales off Washington state, marking the fifth birth among the region’s three pods since December. Members of the Center for Whale Research spotted the calf, named L122, on Monday. The baby was swimming with its mother, a 20-year-old orca […]

The world is again safe from Curious George!  Kentucky wildlife officials have captured a monkey on the loose in a small town in Bath County. State police and Bath County deputies had been helping Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officers with their monkey business in the town of Owingsville. Media reports say officials had to tranquilize […]

“Oh, my God!” yelled witnesses as a London-bound airplane caught fire on a Las Vegas runway yesterday.  Passengers and crew quickly fled the blaze, and fourteen were injured in the accident.  But the incident could have been much worse had it not been for the orderly, calm leadership from the British flight crew and the quick […]