A group that skipped out on a tab has returned to pay up after the suburban Milwaukee bar used Facebook shaming in an effort to collect. The three men and two women, all in their 20s, reportedly left without paying a $105 bill Friday night at The Brass Tap in… Read More

Neither Bill Clinton nor James Patterson has ever tried something like this before. The former president and the best-selling novelist are collaborating on a thriller, “The President is Missing,” to come out June 2018 as an unusual joint release from rival publishers — Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown and… Read More

Aaron Hicks slid across home plate, hopped up and flexed his arms in jubilation. No Monday morning blues for Hicks and the New York Yankees. Hicks scored on Starlin Castro’s grounder in the 18th inning, and the rolling Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 in the majors’ longest interleague game… Read More

Authorities say an Alabama woman is charged with stealing at least $38,000 by portraying herself as a terminal cancer patient in a pair of online fundraising schemes. A statement from the state attorney general’s office says 37-year-old Jennifer Flynn Cataldo of Sterrett is charged with two counts of theft by… Read More

A cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway and over a steep, wooded hillside Friday at a West Virginia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot, an airport official said. Emergency crews were trying to reach the crash site from above and below, Yeager airport spokesman Mike Plante said…. Read More

A Penn State University fraternity pledge had toxic levels of alcohol in his body and was badly injured in a series of falls, authorities said Friday in announcing criminal charges for his death against 18 members of the organization and the fraternity itself. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller… Read More

Crayola’s new crayon color will be based on a blue pigment discovered in 2009. Scientists at Oregon State University accidentally discovered the brilliant blue hue when they were experimenting with materials that could be used in electronics. Crayola said Friday that it’s partnering on the new crayon with Oregon State… Read More

A Massachusetts prisons report says Aaron Hernandez was outwardly elated after his acquittal in a double murder trial and did not appear to have thoughts of suicide in the days before he killed himself in his prison cell. The state Department of Correction report released Thursday also says there were… Read More