Police say an officer who pulled over soul singer Gladys Knight was treated to an impromptu rendition of “Happy Birthday.” Pleasant Grove Police Capt. Mike Roberts says Knight was a passenger in the car stopped for speeding Wednesday night. Officer Paul Rogerson was checking the driver’s license when the woman… Read More

A flight student from Egypt is facing deportation from the United States after being investigated by federal agents for posting on his Facebook page that he was willing to serve a life sentence for killing Donald Trump and that the world would thank him. While U.S. prosecutors have not charged… Read More

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was transferred to another prison partly because another inmate pushed his way through a partially open door and attacked him, according to prison officials and documents released Thursday. Holmes was coming out of an office with a case manager when a corrections officer opened a door… Read More

An anti-government activist from Montana who spoke of shooting police, arresting judges and burning down a local courthouse was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison on federal firearms charges. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters said defendant William Krisstofer Wolf had advocated a “shocking” level of violence against law enforcement,… Read More

A West Virginia police chief is trying to determine if an officer issued a jaywalking ticket to a city parking enforcement officer in retaliation to a parking violation warning. The Intelligencer reports that Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger is reviewing last Friday’s incident in which an officer issued a total of… Read More

Bird poop was the likely cause of a December shutdown at a nuclear power plant outside New York City, according to the operator. An Indian Point reactor safely shut down for three days starting Dec. 14 following an electrical disturbance on outdoor high voltage transmission lines, Entergy Corp. said. An… Read More

At least 16 prisoners died in a fire Thursday as they protested overcrowding and other issues inside a prison in the capital of the South American country of Guyana, authorities said. Inmates set two fires during a riot in the most secure section of Georgetown Prison as guards swept the… Read More

Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away — farther than any previously detected, from a time when the universe was a mere toddler of about 400 million years old. By employing a different technique — one that has raised some skepticism — a… Read More

From a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house came a baseball-card find of a lifetime. Seven of them actually. Card experts in Southern California said Wednesday that they have verified the legitimacy — and seven-figure total value — of seven identical Ty Cobb cards from the printing period of… Read More

Idaho police believe four teenage boys set fire to their high school principal’s house in retaliation for being suspended. Payette Police Chief Mark Clark told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday that he asked a judge to issue warrants for the arrest of three high-schoolers and one middle-schooler. Clark says social media… Read More