Authorities have identified a man found dead in a parked car in Northern California as former San Diego Chargers quarterback Jesse Freitas. – Information from: The Santa Rosa Press Democrat,…
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A 53-year-old California woman suffering from leukemia sued the state’s attorney general and San Francisco’s top prosecutor on Wednesday seeking the…
The Force was with him to the end — and beyond. Gordon Deacon, of Wales, got a “Star Wars” funeral Wednesday. The costumed send-off included Imperial Stormtroopers who marched with…
Tiger Woods says his golf is not acceptable for the PGA Tour and he will not return until it is. – But he says he needs work on his game….
After years of working together as The Rockers, Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty created one of the most memorable moments in wrestling history when Michaels threw Janetty through a barber…
Police near Amsterdam had an easy time of it zeroing in on a suspected marijuana grow house — it was the only one on the block whose roof was clear…
The corpse of a Haitian man was found hanging from a tree in a public park in the Dominican Republic’s second-largest city Wednesday morning, according the newspaper Listín Diario. Local…
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) said on Wednesday that he would not resign amid an investigation by the state attorney general into allegations that his fiancee used her relationship with…
The third season of “House of Cards” leaked online for a brief moment on Wednesday, allowing pretty much everyone who writes about pop culture on the Internet to spend 58…
The mother of a suicidal New York City inmate who hanged himself in a Rikers Island solitary confinement cell in 2013 after repeatedly threatening to do so — and was…
On the morning of the day Marisa Pizarro gave birth, the usual tumult reigned in her apartment in Lower Manhattan’s financial district. Her husband, a music producer known as J…
Silence truly is gold. Comedy gold. Dr. Phil is known for handing out no nonsense diagnoses and long-winded expressions during his talk show, but what happens when we take those…
Stars: They’re just like us! They, too, have to grapple with whether or not to keep their exes’ last name after divorce. Below, 11 stars who decided to hold on…
David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, says he doesn’t think Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) poses a credible threat to Hillary Clinton’s likely presidential bid…
Jon Stewart is leaving “The Daily Show” after more than 15 years, which, according to Rush Limbaugh, is good news because he can no longer destroy the Republican name. –…
Troubles on the West Coast waterfront are getting worse. Amid an increasingly damaging labor dispute, 29 West Coast seaports which handle about $1 trillion of goods annually will be mostly…
An unimposing brick building sits at 8-12 Welbeck Way in a narrow alley near Oxford Street. The Oracle Capital Group’s London headquarters is hardly impressive, boasting neither glittering glass facades…
It might not be necessary to spend money on a fitness-tracking device if you already own a working smartphone. According to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School…
LL Cool J’s ex co-star Maia Campbell should really try ordering in — she just got busted at a restaurant for the 2nd time this year … most recently for…
A 57-year-old grandfather from India was left paralyzed after an altercation with Madison, Alabama Police who said they had been called to investigate a “suspicious person.” Sureshbhai Patel, who is…
By: Dr. Vatsala Bhaskar, CentraState Medical Center Published: 02/10/2015 12:01 PM EST on LiveScience Dr. Vatsala Bhaskar is a board-certified pediatrician on staff at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J.,…
Americans think that it was a breach of protocol for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, but they still want…
A few days ago, a doctor told an acquaintance of mine that, in light of the ongoing measles outbreak, he would never take an infant on an airplane. As a…
This story was reported with Roxana Olivera, a Toronto-based investigative journalist living in Peru. On a remote farm deep in the Peruvian Andes, in a region where sheep outnumber people…
On this day in 1990, massive crowds gathered throughout South Africa to celebrate the release of the nation’s beloved Nelson Mandela. It marked a momentous occasion and an even more…
WASHINGTON — Art Pope, the wealthy owner of a chain of dollar stores, became a pioneer in the use of big money to seize power at the state level in…
This piece comes to us courtesy of EdSource, where it was originally published. To break down the isolation that many teachers experience in their classrooms, California schools are using instructional…
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the Senate version of legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday, sending the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk for…
Ginuwine’s “Pony” is essentially the undeclared anthem of Valentine’s Day — assuming it was a successful one — if not the anthem of love and sex at large. While Ginuwine…
If “House of Cards’” producers wanted to gain street cred by fake-leaking the show’s third season, they should have done so on Medium. Scott Walker dodged questions while in London…