• Woman stabs mother of five to death in Maine supermarket: police

    Maine police were searching on Thursday for what motivated a woman to fatally stab a mother of five adult children who was shopping in the ice cream aisle of a grocery store in an apparently unprovoked attack, authorities said. Wendy Boudreau, 59, of Saco, was shopping in a local Shaws store on…

    Reuters
  • Men claim to find Nazi train loaded with treasure in Poland

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold, artworks and weapons vanished into a mountain at the end of World War II, as the Germans fled the Soviet advance. Now two men claim they know the location of the mystery train and are demanding 10 percent of its value in…

    Associated Press
  • Kim Jong-Un orders frontline N. Korea troops onto war footing

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing from Friday, as military tensions with South Korea soared following a rare exchange of artillery shells across their heavily fortified border. The North's official KCNA news agency said the move came during an emergency…

    AFP
  • Father of unlicensed teen in fatal Pennsylvania crash gets prison term

    A man was sentenced to up to 16 years in prison on Thursday for letting his 15-year-old daughter drive his SUV, which she crashed in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, killing three young friends. Michael Ware, 54, of Scarsdale, New York, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of involuntary…

    Reuters
  • New female Rangers did more than pass: 'They beat me,’ male student says

    Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, both West Point graduates, finished Ranger School earlier this week. “It’s probably going to be one of the highlights of my life,” said Lieutenant Haver. Captain Griest said that the moment was a years-long dream.

    Christian Science Monitor
  • Tiger roars with lowest round in two years

    Tiger Woods fired his lowest round in two years Thursday, launching his quest for a place in the Fedex Cup play-offs with a sparkling six-under-par 64 at the Wyndham Championship. Woods, bidding to bounce back from a disappointing missed cut at last week's PGA Championship, roared back to form with…

    AFP
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    Caitlyn Jenner crash: Sheriff's investigators to recommend vehicular manslaughter charge

    Sheriff's officials investigating the fatal Malibu crash involving Caitlyn Jenner are submitting the case to the L.A. District Attorney's office and recommending a manslaughter charge.

    KABC – Los Angeles
  • Photos show first wild California wolf pack in nearly a century

    By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California's first gray wolf pack since wild wolves disappeared from the state nearly a century ago was spotted in the woods in the northern part of the state, wildlife officials said on Thursday. The pack appears to include a wolf photographed by…

    Reuters
  • Prosecutor: Mom says she killed young sons to help daughter

    BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A woman calmly called 911 to report her baby son wasn't breathing on Tuesday and then hours later confessed to killing him and her two other young sons over the past several months because her husband ignored their daughter, authorities said.

    Associated Press
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    The back alleys of one of America’s most dangerous cities (31 photos)

    High-tech policing and a renewed focus on community-officer partnerships are helping to bring calm to Camden, N.J., but it hasn’t been a cure-all. The impoverished town of 77,000 is still the most violent and crime-plagued city in the Garden State. A local policeman recently took Yahoo News…

    Yahoo News
  • Ex-cop denied bail on murder charge, collapses in courtroom

    FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A former police officer charged with murder for shooting and killing a man during a domestic disturbance call collapsed Wednesday in a northern Virginia courtroom after being denied bail in his initial court appearance.

    Associated Press
  • Hacker's Ashley Madison data dump threatens marriages, reputations

    By Josephine Mason and Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet. Hackers dumped a big cache of…

    Reuters
  • Slovakia Just Told Muslim Migrants to Stay Out

    European leaders have set an ugly limit on which weary travelers they’ll allow to cross their borders as thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East continue to make the deadly trek across the Mediterranean. The majority of migrants seeking asylum in Europe—62 percent—are from Syria,…

    TakePart.com
  • Dow drops 358 points after China fears spur global sell-off

    NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market endured its worst performance in 18 months on Thursday, driven lower by another slump in Chinese shares and heavy selling by technical traders.

    Associated Press
  • Teenage Boys Need Reliable Advice About Contraception

    DEAR ABBY: In my family alone, three young women have -- by their own admission -- gotten pregnant on purpose to get their boyfriends to marry and support them. None of these marriages worked out. The horrible relationships were and still are hurtful and damaging, not only to the children, but also…

    Dear Abby
  • Human 'super-predators' should change hunting, fishing habits

    People tend to kill adult fish at 14 times the rate of marine predators, said the findings in the journal Science. Based on a survey of 2,125 predators around the world on both land and in the water, scientists found that people cause "extreme outcomes that non-human predators seldom impose," said…

    AFP
  • Fallout 4 dev responds to graphics, gameplay criticisms

    "Everybody is entitled to their opinion."

    CNET