For Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt, it started with tequila and dancing in the rain in Bogota and ended on the French seaside with white wine, pills and tears. Hollywood’s most storied modern couple only appeared together twice in the movies. The first time, in 2005’s “Mr. & Mrs…. Read More

A man was charged with murder Tuesday in the 2013 disappearance of a gas station clerk in western Michigan, a case that had stymied investigators until a teenage girl in an unrelated incident escaped from the suspect’s van in April. Jessica Heeringa disappeared from the gas station where she worked… Read More

Visitors to a central Kentucky farm may do a double-take when they see the newest addition: a two-faced calf. Stan McCubbin of Campbellsville told WDRB-TV that he thought he had twins when he first saw the calf on Friday, but quickly realized he had something far more unusual. The female… Read More

A Maine high school unable to fill a vacant teacher position has turned to a foreign language computer program to educate students. With money already earmarked for the job, The Morning Sentinel reports Madison Area Memorial High School opted to purchase the Rosetta Stone program to serve as its full-time French… Read More

The colors of Brandon Jackson’s short life filled the church and helped tell his tale of “promise and purpose.” The bright green and gold jerseys on the dozens of high school football players, just like the ones Jackson used to wear. The NYPD blue on the colleagues of his mother,… Read More

A man who got stuck head-first between two rocks on a Rhode Island jetty while trying to retrieve his cellphone has been rescued with the help of olive oil. WJAR-TV reports it happened Saturday afternoon near a fishing area in Point Judith. Authorities say the man dropped his phone and… Read More

Authorities say a robbery suspect somehow made off with a Terre Haute police car despite being handcuffed behind his back. The Tribune Star reports that officers had placed 28-year-old Cody Tryon of Terre Haute in the back of the patrol car. Police say that while unattended, Tyron kicked out the metal… Read More

It was a historian’s idea: carve gigantic sculptures into the granite pinnacles of the Black Hills of South Dakota, significant Western figures like Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Fremont, Red Cloud and Sacagawea. “In the vicinity of Harney Peak … are opportunities for heroic sculpture of unusual character,” South… Read More

Police are calling it the “lowest of the low:” A man gave a fake $50 bill to a southeastern Michigan girl who was running a lemonade stand to raise money for Alzheimer’s disease research. The Monroe News says the man on a bike didn’t buy anything last Sunday in Monroe. He… Read More

Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 73. Carr died Saturday of complications from a rare form of dementia in Los Angeles, Carr’s spokesman, Harlan Boll, said. At age 21, the… Read More