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

The U.S. Postal Service has launched an investigation after a metro Atlanta resident says she filmed a worker dumping hundreds of pieces of mail in the woods. Kellie Campbell of DeKalb County tells WSB-TV she recorded the postal worker walking near a fence and dumping several bins of mail into… Read More

A powerful natural gas explosion rocked a busy Portland, Oregon, shopping district Wednesday, injuring eight people and igniting a fire that sent a huge plume of smoke over the heart of the city. Three firefighters, two police officers and three civilians were hurt, and one of the firefighters was still… Read More

The world should brace itself for more physically destructive hacks, two senior cybersecurity officials said Wednesday, warning that a more dangerous era of hacking was already upon us. Paul Chichester, the director of operations at Britain’s new National Cyber Security Center, told an event hosted by British defense think tank… Read More