Investigators will try to piece together a homemade model rocket to figure out why it exploded at a Southern California school, killing a high school student and sending his friend to a hospital with minor injuries, authorities said Tuesday. The two senior honor students apparently were experimenting with “some sort… Read More

Virginia State Trooper Chad Dermyer’s intuition told him something was wrong when he pulled a woman over last year for expired license plates. Authorities say it turned out that the remains of her long-missing son were hidden in the trunk. Those same instincts were on display on the last day… Read More

The University of Northern New Jersey fielded no sports teams, held no graduation ceremonies and had no instructors, classes or degree programs. It did have a very attractive website that promised an “exceptional” education for foreign students wishing to study in the U.S. It was a sham from beginning to… Read More

A U.S. Marine Corps dog that sniffed out explosives and protected thousands of troops has been honored with a prize for animals serving bravely in military conflict. Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, won the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, a decoration for bravery. She is the… Read More

FBI agents investigating a potential data leak at Boeing obtained a secret warrant to search the home computers of a company manager in California for evidence they thought would connect him to Chinese economic espionage. Instead, they say, they found something else entirely: graphic child pornography. With that discovery two… Read More

A worker has died at a haunted house attraction at Disneyland Paris, according to a park official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to be publicly named, said the Phantom Manor ride is closed and a police investigation is underway. The park said in… Read More

The NFL has picked Twitter to stream its Thursday night games. When the league negotiated its latest deal for Thursdays, it decided to sell the streaming rights separately for an “over the top” broadcast. This past season, it partnered with Yahoo to stream a game from London that took place… Read More

A man convicted of the 1964 stabbing death of Kitty Genovese in a crime that came to symbolize urban decay and indifference has died in prison at age 81. Winston Moseley died on March 28 at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, state prisons spokesman Thomas Mailey said. An autopsy… Read More

Hackers have posted a database online that seems to contain the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of its kind. The Associated Press on Monday was able to partially verify the authenticity of the leak by running 10 non-public… Read More

There’s one last orca birth to come at SeaWorld, and it will probably be the last chance for research biologist Dawn Noren to study up close how female killer whales pass toxins to their calves through their milk. While SeaWorld’s decision last month to end its orca breeding program delighted… Read More