Famed ’60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda, has died. He was 76. He died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting that he suffered a stroke… Read More

With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are shaking off superstitions and setting their sights on the team’s first World Series in 71 years. Loyal fans as far south as San Antonio, Texas, and as far west as Washington state restructured their worldviews to include… Read More

Tropical Storm Seymour is strengthening not far from Mexico’s coast and forecast to become a hurricane on Monday. The National Hurricane Center said Sunday night that the storm is centered about 370 miles (595 km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph). Seymour… Read More

A Pennsylvania fire chief is announcing his retirement just ahead of his 95th birthday. J. Edward Hutchinson — affectionately known as “Hutch” — has served more than six decades as Greensburg’s fire chief but has decided not to run for a 22nd term. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports the fire department will… Read More

It sounds like a Halloween prank but Sacramento police say it was all too real. Authorities say a homeless woman led them to a decomposed body after she was seen walking down the street with a human skull on a stick. Police tell KTXL-TV that the woman was spotted Wednesday… Read More

Nearly $10,000 in cash a restaurant owner left in a shopping cart at an upstate New York store has been returned thanks to a couple who found the money. Managers at the Tractor Supply Co. store in Sennett in the Finger Lakes region say the couple found around $9,800 in… Read More

A Mississippi county has had enough of the creepy clown craze, at least until after Halloween. Kemper County supervisors this week banned people from wearing any clown costume, mask or makeup in public. The local law carries a $150 penalty, and it will be lifted Nov. 1. The Kemper County… Read More

Guinness World Records says a roughly half-mile-long ice cream sundae that was gobbled up in Michigan this June was the longest ever. The Ludington Daily News reports that the sundae measuring a little over 2,970 feet in length and fed thousands of people lining eight blocks in the Lake Michigan… Read More

Professors are again manning the picket line at 14 Pennsylvania state universities. Friday marks the third day since they walked off their jobs. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education says it didn’t formally negotiate with its faculty union on Thursday, but is working to move toward a fair contract…. Read More

Police say a 13-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while he was lying in bed inside a Massachusetts apartment. Chelsea police say the boy was in a third-floor apartment Wednesday night when he was struck in the shoulder by a stray bullet fired from the street. The boy… Read More