It was quite a night for a New York state college basketball fan who made a half-court shot to win a $500 gift card, and then received a marriage proposal seconds later. Erin Tobin took part in a Dunkin’ Donuts promotion during Thursday night’s Manhattan-Siena game at the Times Union… Read More

A powerful storm hit California with the first in a new series of rainstorms moving across the northern half of the state while the south awaited a rains that forecasters said could be the strongest in years if not decades. Rain, accompanied by heavy winds, pelted the San Francisco Bay… Read More

The Justice Department says a Seattle area man detained by immigration agents despite his participation in a federal program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children has admitted to having gang ties and to having been arrested previously. The department in court documents filed Thursday said 23-year-old… Read More

Authorities say they’ve arrested a 26-year-old woman accused of performing a sex act inside a Florida courthouse and then posting a video online. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office records show Brittney Lahcell Jones was arrested Wednesday. The Florida Times-Union reports Jones and 35-year-old Jeremiah Isiah Robinson had been wanted on a charge… Read More

Mother Nature is again putting on a show at California’s Yosemite National Park, where every February the setting sun draws a narrow sliver of light on a waterfall to make it glow like a cascade of molten lava. The phenomenon known as “firefall” draws scores of photographers to a spot… Read More

A Massachusetts woman has sued radio personality Howard Stern and the federal government after her telephone conversation with an IRS agent was aired on Stern’s show. Judith Barrigas says in her lawsuit that after her private conversation was aired she had difficulty sleeping and eating, sought treatment, and has had… Read More

A naked man who police say punched one employee and bit another at NBC’s Washington bureau also breached security at the nearby Department of Homeland Security headquarters. DHS spokesman Scott McConnell tells The Associated Press that the man climbed the outer perimeter fence at the department’s complex on Nebraska Avenue,… Read More