A man hired women to work as dancers inside a million-dollar mansion and threatened to kill at least one of them if she tried to leave, according to a 911 call. Officers helped eight women leave the home after the 911 call was made Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday in… Read More

Mississippi universities that refuse to fly the Confederate-themed state flag could lose proposed tax breaks, the latest twist in a long battle over a symbol critics see as racist. All eight of Mississippi’s public universities have stopped flying the flag because it prominently features the Confederate battle emblem, angering supporters… Read More

For several hours, Lady Liberty didn’t shine so brightly. The famed The Statue of Liberty was temporarily in the dark Tuesday night after what a spokesman calls an “unplanned outage.” WCBS-TV says the statue was dark except for the crown and torch. The lights returned shortly before midnight. The outage… Read More

It was one of the more unusual calls the California Highway Patrol has received: Someone reported seeing a cow trying to climb out of a small car parked alongside an interstate. Officers responding Saturday along a mountain pass in Southern California’s Riverside County discovered a calf trying to escape from… Read More

North Carolina prosecutors will seek a mental evaluation of an 18-year-old man charged with decapitating his mother at a home east of Raleigh. Eighteen-year-old Oliver Funez was charged with first-degree murder Monday after a deputy responding to a 911 call saw the man walk out of a home in Zebulon… Read More

A jovial Donald Trump greeted the first wave of tourists to the White House since his inauguration Tuesday. Trump emerged from behind a French screen to a throng of cheering tourists — many of them fifth graders from Birmingham, Ala. — who had packed into the East Wing of the… Read More

Authorities have charged a Pennsylvania day care worker with simple assault after a newly installed video camera captured her pushing a child down a flight of steps. Upper Darby police say 52-year-old Sarah Gable of Folcroft was fired soon after the owners of Child Care of the Future saw what… Read More

A British coroner says George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver. Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, says a post-mortem has found that the singer died of “dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.” Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition in which… Read More

A homeless saxophonist was a guest of the Pawtucket Police Department in Rhode Island, although he didn’t spend the night in a cell. WJAR-TV reports that officers invited a homeless man named Mark to sleep in the lobby of the police station after finding him dozing at one of the city’s… Read More

The judge who presided over the acquittal of Casey Anthony in a murder trial televised live around the world said Thursday that an accidental killing is the most logical explanation for her 2-year-old daughter’s death. Former Judge Belvin Perry Jr. told The Associated Press that the theory that makes the… Read More