A New Hampshire town that said it wouldn’t be decorated with holiday lights this season because of code issues with a utility now has a glimmer of hope. The Portsmouth Herald reports that Exeter town officials have been talking to Unitil and are looking to get an electrician to install… Read More

Italy’s Emma Morano, the world’s oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake. Beaming at the attention, Morano took in the festivities for her milestone celebration sitting in an armchair in her one-room apartment in the northern mountain town of Verbania, joined… Read More

An employee with the Cirque du Soleil “Luzia” show died after being injured Tuesday night in what was termed an “industrial accident,” San Francisco police said. Officer Carlos Manfredi confirmed the death, and Cirque du Soleil said in a later statement that the fatal injury occurred during the “pre-set of… Read More

For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul “Bud” Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him — and not his last-minute replacement — on the doomed voyage of the USS Thresher in which 129 men died. This week, at his family’s… Read More

It’s become a hallmark of terror attacks and school shootings: the fateful minutes or hours when the wounded are hunkered down, waiting for the violence to play out and for help to arrive. In Monday’s car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University, one of the 11 wounded victims hid in a… Read More

A possible tornado swept through an area in northeast Alabama, killing three in a mobile home and injuring others as severe storms moved across the South overnight, authorities said. The suspected tornado hit in the small community of Rosalie, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said. Another person in the… Read More

A man with a terminal lung disease has completed the Seattle Marathon while towing his oxygen tank. KOMO-TV reports Evans Wilson walked the entire 26.2-mile race Sunday and finished in just under 11 hours. The station reports that the former competitive runner has pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension. Wilson told… Read More

As a strong storm system approached some of the largest wildfires burning in the South, the rain signaled new hope for firefighters working to extinguish the blazes. But the storms also brought high winds, which toppled dead trees and could pose a threat to firefighters, authorities said. Experts predicted that… Read More

San Francisco Bay Area health officials were trying to determine Monday if three people who died and five who were sickened after eating Thanksgiving dinner at a church event got sick there or at the assisted living facility where they all lived. Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch said in… Read More

An Arizona woman who accidentally texted a stranger an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner made good on her offer, greeting the teen visitor with a hug and an oven full of food after their story swept through social media. Wanda Dench prepped two turkeys and set up a long table in… Read More