Having flopped with the New York Jets, Tim Tebow will try to revive his career as an outfielder with the Mets. Four years removed from his last regular-season snap as an NFL quarterback, the 29-year-old agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the Mets that includes a $100,000 signing… Read More

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band just don’t want to leave the stage. Wednesday night’s concert at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia lasted nearly four hours, four minutes, breaking the previous record for the group’s longest U.S. show set last week. Philadelphia Daily News sports statistician and Springsteen fan… Read More

U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire. The Federal Aviation Administration also warned passengers not to put the Galaxy Note 7 phones in… Read More

Hall of Fame boxer Bobby Chacon died Wednesday under hospice care for dementia. He was 64. Riverside County coroner’s Sgt. Brent Seacrest said Chacon died at his home “with his family present at his bedside.” Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005, the former WBC featherweight and… Read More

An American flag that firefighters hoisted at ground zero in the hours after the 9/11 terror attacks returns to the World Trade Center site after disappearing for more than a decade. The 3-foot-by 5-foot flag goes on display Thursday at the Sept. 11 museum in New York. It was the… Read More

A New York woman has been charged with killing a 92-year-old World War I veteran during a break-in at his Buffalo home more than three decades ago. Erie County prosecutors announced Wednesday that fingerprints and DNA evidence linked Saundra Adams to the slaying of Edmund Schreiber, who was found strangled… Read More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1T1U4mU2Y8 A police chief showed video of a Nevada homicide suspect breaking a set of handcuffs before climbing onto a chair to remove a ceiling tile and escape from a North Las Vegas police interview room. Alonso Perez is seen twisting and muscling the hinge of the handcuffs attaching his… Read More

A woman who was kidnapped at a Montana rest stop in broad daylight was able to talk with her husband by cellphone several times and even talked with police, but she was dead by the time authorities found her car 325 miles away near Spokane International Airport, Montana authorities said…. Read More

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes for a reported $20 million and a public apology Tuesday, ending the case that triggered the downfall of the cable channel’s chief executive. Carlson alleged in a lawsuit filed two months ago that she was demoted… Read More

The flesh-colored, skin-tight beaded gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block this fall. Julien’s Auctions is offering the sequined stunner at a sale in Los Angeles on Nov. 17. The auction house believes the gown… Read More