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

Professional stuntman Eddie Braun successfully jumped over the Snake River Canyon Friday afternoon in an ode to his boyhood idol, Evel Knievel. Braun soared over the southern Idaho canyon in a custom-built rocket dubbed “Evel Spirit.” It launched off a steep ramp on the edge of the canyon rim just… Read More

Police in Florida are investigating the fatal shootings of two young children on both sides of the state. The shootings occurred Sunday at an apartment complex in Tampa and at a home in Riviera Beach in Palm Beach County. Tampa police said in a news release that a 17-month-old child… Read More

Jimmy Kimmel, who first hosted a pedestrian Emmys in 2012, came back and did much better — relaxed, sarcastic without being mean, and quick on his feet. His opening skit included jokes with former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Did you know you can make $12 an hour driving for… Read More

The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts. The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct… Read More

The University of California at Berkeley has suspended a course amid accusations it shared anti-Semitic viewpoints and was designed to indoctrinate students against Israel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Berkeley suspended “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” on Tuesday. The newspaper reports a syllabus for the one-credit course taught by an undergraduate… Read More

In the seven years since an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, there’s been enough time to write a book and make a movie, but apparently not enough to carry out most of the safety recommendations stemming from the accident. Of the… Read More

Donald Trump says he thinks his first debate with Hillary Clinton should forgo a moderator because he’s afraid that his foes are “trying to game the system” by pressuring NBC’s Lester Holt to be tough on him. Appearing Thursday night on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Trump suggests… Read More

The father of former NASCAR driver Robby Gordon strangled his wife then shot himself in their Southern California home, police said Thursday. The deaths of Robert Gordon, 68, and Sharon Gordon, 57, were an apparent murder-suicide, Orange police Lt. Fred Lopez said a day after the bodies were found. No… Read More

Police say a Florida woman made a bomb threat in an attempt to keep her boyfriend from submitting a urine sample at a probation office. Winter Haven police say 31-year-old Deniz Martinez called 911 on Tuesday, saying a man outside the office was going to “blow the building up.” Investigators… Read More