Carrie Sapp teased her husband, Brad, about being afraid of ghosts when he said he heard someone whisper “get out of here” while he was sorting cans at his Iowa recycling business. Of course it wasn’t a ghost. It was a naked man in the chimney. Sapp said she was… Read More

In any given week, teams of high-priced lawyers fan out across the country to defend Bill Cosby amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes. The disgraced TV star is spending millions in a frenzied bid not just to stay out of prison but to salvage… Read More

Morley Safer, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans’ view of the war, died Thursday, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS… Read More

Nationals player Max Scherzer made a young boys Met fan’s day when he played catch with the boy in the stands prior to a game. Mets fans love to hate Scherzer, who pitched a no-hitter at Citi Field last October. The Mets beat the Nationals 2-0 in Tuesday’s game. @masnNationals Here… Read More

Time Warner Cable is going away, and that means you might have a new cable company to hate. But you might find one you like better instead. Time Warner, the largest cable provider in New York and Los Angeles, among other markets, was just bought by Charter Communications Inc., which… Read More

A novice fossil collector’s lucky find in a remote Montana badlands more than a decade ago represents a new kind of spectacularly-horned dinosaur, researchers announced Wednesday. The bones unearthed near Winifred, Montana represent a previously-unknown species of dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago. It’s scientific name is Spiclypeus shipporum… Read More

Paul Derek Treaster says his Vietnam-veteran father, whose ashes were discovered beside a south Alabama road, must have been looking down from above, helping to guide him back to the remains. The ashes had posed a mystery for police in the town of Florala when they were found by a… Read More

An 86-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly shot his wife in the head, saying she was ill and they couldn’t afford medication. Local media says William Hager was arrested Monday after he called the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies say Hager led investigators to a… Read More

Police say four central Pennsylvania volunteer firefighters called in five false alarms earlier this year because they enjoyed the thrill of riding in fire trucks. The Logan Township Volunteer Fire Department has suspended the men and police have charged them with making the false alarms. Online court records don’t list… Read More

A baby sitter is accused of using two children she was watching to help her rob a bank — a heist allegedly planned to help her pay back money stolen from her employers. Rachel Einspahr, 28, went to the drive through at the Colorado East Bank & Trust in Severance… Read More