Five Vermont high school juniors were killed when the car they were riding in was hit by a wrong-way driver, who authorities said then stole a police cruiser and crashed into seven more cars before the cruiser burst into flames. “The loss of five teens in such a senseless tragedy… Read More

The Health and Human Services Department is investigating a possible breach of a computer system holding personal information of more than 6,700 doctors, nurses and other uniformed public health workers overseen by the surgeon general. It is the latest in a series of breaches involving federal employee records — the… Read More

NBC on Sunday suspended “Today” show personality Billy Bush indefinitely after he was caught on a videotape from 2005 in a crude conversation about women with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. “Today” Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim said in a memo Sunday that “there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language… Read More

Fire officials in Texas say a man who apparently was sleeping in a dumpster survived when he and the trash in the bin were dumped into a trash truck, compacted and then hauled to a transfer station. Workers at the transfer station in Wichita Falls saw the man tumble Friday… Read More

Brazilian scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of what they say is the largest dinosaur ever found in South America’s biggest country. Diogenes Campos, director of Rio de Janeiro’s Earth Sciences Museum, said he named the 25-meter-long dinosaur “Austroposeidon magnificus.” It belonged to the Titanosaur group of herbivores that had… Read More

State agents raided the Dallas offices of adult classified ad portal Backpage.com and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims were forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site. Ferrer, 55, was arrested on a California warrant after arriving Thursday in… Read More

A West Virginia man accused of sexually assaulting a 9-month-old baby is now charged with murder in the child’s death. Media outlets report 32-year-old Benjamin Taylor of Cottageville was charged with first-degree murder after the girl died of her injuries at a hospital Wednesday. Taylor is the boyfriend of the… Read More

Brace yourself for big changes when Jane Pauley takes over as host of “CBS News Sunday Morning” this weekend. She doesn’t plan to wear a bow tie, as her predecessor, Charles Osgood, famously did for the 22 years he presided. And for the first time in its 37-year history, the… Read More

Fox News Channel colleagues Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly are friends again. Kelly tweeted a picture of her and Hannity together on the set of Kelly’s show Thursday night, with a note, “We’re Irish. It’s complicated. #friends.” She also ended her program, which leads into Hannity’s, by saying, “Up next:… Read More

Some people think they’ve spotted Bigfoot on a live camera trained on an eagle’s nest in Michigan. The clip from a camera mounted on a tree near a state fish hatchery shows baby eaglets in the nest while a dark figure walking on two legs moves on the ground below…. Read More