Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside his home near… Read More

A play that imagines what it might have been like had Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Sen. Joe McCarthy met in a hotel room in 1953 will make its New York debut next month — in a hotel room. The innovative theater company Defibrillator, based in Britain, will… Read More

A Langhorne, Pennsylvania high school basketball coach who apparently head-butted a referee during a game has been put on leave. Videos posted online show Neshaminy High School boys basketball coach Jerry Devine confronting a referee Tuesday night after he disagreed with a foul call. The team was trailing Pennsbury High… Read More

Baltimore County police say a school bus carrying high school students got stuck in a sinkhole that opened up after a water main break, but the students got off safely. Police said in social media posts that the bus carrying Dulaney High School students got stuck Wednesday morning in Cockeysville,… Read More

Prized bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon that were spirited away by a whiskey-theft ring in Kentucky might end up being destroyed rather than auctioned off, a sheriff said Wednesday. Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton backed off his suggestion that 28 bottles of the prestigious Pappy Van Winkle brand be… Read More

It was a scene straight out of an episode of “Lassie.” Police in Orange, Massachusetts say a dog approached an officer on Tuesday barking frantically and then led the officer across a field and down an icy, 30-foot embankment, where the dog’s canine companion had become entangled in the undergrowth…. Read More

Meteorologists say the current El Nino weather pattern has tied 1997-1998 as the strongest ever recorded. Mike Halpert, deputy director of the federal Climate Prediction Center, said initial figures for October-November-December match the same time period in 1997 for the strongest El Nino. Meteorologists measure El Nino based on how warm… Read More

An astrophysicist from Colorado has discovered something even rarer than a double-black hole galaxy: a skinny black hole. The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Julie Comerford reported her findings Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. To date, only 12 galaxies are known to exist with… Read More

An Ohio man pledged Tuesday to not let his “zombie Nativity” display die without a fight, while an apparent supporter dressed as a zombie was jailed for contempt of court. Jasen Dixon pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of violating zoning rules in the Cincinnati suburb of Sycamore Township. He… Read More