A mason working on a Kansas university building has found an 88-year-old handwritten note that gives a glimpse into the lives of laborers in 1928. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the mason found the note in a tobacco can he encountered in December while restoring and replacing stones at Kansas… Read More

It’s hard to know what was more amazing: An out-of-control car ending up on the roof of a Southern California house or the driver somehow escaping serious injury despite the wild ride. Palos Verdes Estates police Capt. Mark Velez says a driver with a medical problem lost control of his… Read More

Police say veteran X Games biker Dave Mirra has died in North Carolina. He was 41. Greenville police said Thursday night that Mirra’s body was found earlier in the day with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities say they responded to an apparent suicide and discovered his body in a… Read More

Another problem has developed with automotive air bags, and this one will bring recalls of up to 5 million vehicles worldwide. Continental Automotive Systems says in documents filed with the U.S. government that moisture can get inside its air bag control computers, causing the power supplies to corrode and fail…. Read More

It’s an unofficial holiday in America known to many as “The Big Game.” Super Bowl 50 is just about here. Millions will tune in Sunday to see legendary QB Peyton Manning and the stifling Denver Broncos defense take on rising superstar QB Cam Newton and the explosive Carolina Panthers offensive…. Read More

Are we witnessing the end of the Bush Dynasty? Here’s the video of Jeb Bush asking his audience to applaud that everyone is talking about.

A Maine landlord has admitted killing two tenants in 2012 in a dispute over parking spots after a snowstorm. Seventy-seven-year-old James Pak had originally planned to use an insanity defense, but he instead pleaded guilty Wednesday in Alfred court to murder. Police visited the apartment shortly before the December 2012… Read More

A Yale researcher says a lavish 1951 Explorers Club dinner in New York City didn’t include 250,000-year-old extinct woolly mammoth, despite folklore about the event. Nor did the feast include meat from a giant ground sloth, as the menu promised. A new DNA analysis from a fist-sized piece of meat… Read More

Spacewalking Russians gathered seeds and spores that have been stuck outside the International Space Station for months if not years and gave a ceremonial send-off Wednesday to a flash drive containing special messages for their motherland. Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov waited for good camera views before tossing the flash drive overboard… Read More

The only known wild jaguar in the United States is seen roaming around a creek and other parts of a mountain range just south of Tucson in the first publicly released video of the giant cat. “El Jefe” — Spanish for “the boss” — has been living in the Santa… Read More