Officials say a woman would’ve drowned inside her SUV following a crash if not for a New Jersey man, who sprinted into a river, pried open a door and carried her to safety. Police say the 50-year-old woman’s SUV jumped a curb in Nutley Tuesday morning and plunged into the… Read More

A huge turnout is expected in downtown Pittsburgh for the 2016 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins victory parade. A parade after the team’s last Stanley Cup championship in 2009 drew nearly 400,000 people. The parade will begin at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, seven years ago to the day that the last… Read More

The opening to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” one of rock ‘n’ roll’s best-known ballads, was played for jurors Tuesday in a case brought by the estate of a dead musician that claims it was stolen by the men credited with creating it. A lawyer for the estate trustee of… Read More

The Riviera Hotel and Casino — the Las Vegas Strip’s first high-rise that was as famous for its mobster ties as its Hollywood personification of Sin City’s mobster past — officially exited the scene early Tuesday with a cinematic implosion, complete with fireworks. The 24-story Monaco Tower was demolished around… Read More

A new bride didn’t let her white gown stop her from reviving a woman who was unconscious on a bench in Pittsburgh. Julie Stroyne, a trauma nurse at UPMC-Presbyterian, was walking in downtown Pittsburgh Saturday night after her wedding reception when she and others from her wedding party saw the… Read More

Astronomers say they have discovered the largest planet outside the solar system that orbits two suns. The newfound world, about the size of Jupiter, is 3,700 light-years from Earth. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles. It was detected by a team led by NASA and San Diego State University… Read More

Booed every time he touched the ball, LeBron James cut through Golden State’s defense and made layups look easy. Dunks and 3-pointers, so smooth, too. And Kyrie Irving also completely had his way with the Warriors. King James and Irving thoroughly overpowered the defending champions from every spot on the… Read More

Michu Meszaros, a former circus performer who played “ALF” in the popular NBC sitcom, has died, according to his manager, Dennis Varga. Meszaros, who died Sunday, had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital several days ago after he was found unresponsive in his home, and had been in a… Read More

A puppy stolen at gunpoint from a 14-year-old San Francisco Bay Area boy has been found safe. The San Francisco Chronicle says the boy was walking a 3-month-old German shepherd named Maya in San Leandro on Monday night when two men rolled up in a car. The passenger got out… Read More

A new app lets users to experience life in the city of Los Alamos during the nation’s top-secret World War II nuclear development program. The “Los Alamos: The Secret City of The Manhattan Project” iPhone app allows users to enjoy “augmented-reality” while seeing the place as it was in the… Read More