Six months into a deepening drought, the weather is killing crops, threatening cattle and sinking lakes to their lowest levels in years across much of the South. The very worst conditions — what forecasters call “exceptional drought” — are in the mountains of northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia, a region… Read More

A group of men from Michigan have returned from a bachelor party in Tennessee with a stray dog and her litter of puppies in tow. Groom-to-be Mitchel Craddock and his friends were on a five-day trip at a cabin in the woods when a stray dog approached their front door,… Read More

A Portland, Oregon, woman says her red Subaru was stolen from her driveway — and then it reappeared with an apology note and gas money. Erin Hatzi tells The Oregonian/OregonLive that her husband noticed the car was missing on Tuesday night and she posted security camera stills on Facebook, asking for… Read More

California parole officials recommended Thursday that Charles “Tex” Watson, the self-described right-hand man of murderous cult leader Charles Manson, should remain in prison 47 years after he helped plan and carry out the slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people. Watson’s 17th parole hearing was held at… Read More

Four thieves have stolen nearly 200 pumpkins from a family-run farm in New Jersey. Todd Kuehm, owner of Farms View Roadstand in Wayne, says surveillance footage recorded the pumpkin theft overnight on Tuesday. The footage shows four people carrying the pumpkins to a van. Kuehm says the van can be… Read More

Melania Trump says that if her husband wins the presidency, she would like to work on helping children deal with social media. Appearing with Donald Trump in an interview broadcast Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Mrs. Trump said there’s a “need to teach” young people on how to use… Read More

Los Angeles police are investigating a pre-dawn attack that destroyed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame less than two weeks before the election. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which bestows the stars and maintains the popular tourist attraction, said it would quickly repair Trump’s… Read More

Forget the debate about “The Dress.” Twitter is abuzz about “The Legs.” The controversy swirling now is whether a photo of a pair of legs shows them shiny or streaked with white paint. A Twitter user ignited the debate by posting the photo with a question Tuesday: “Are these legs… Read More

When Desmond Doss climbed up Hacksaw Ridge — a 400-foot high escarpment on the island of Okinawa with a wall of dug in Japanese soldiers at the top — he carried his Bible, his combat medic supplies and the weight of his moral convictions but no weapon. When the wounded… Read More

Philadelphia 76ers national anthem singer Sevyn Streeter said she was told by the team she could not perform because of her “We Matter” jersey. She was scheduled to sing before the Sixers’ season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but said in an interview with The Associated Press late Wednesday… Read More