"I never thought I’d see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer," Mayor William Reynolds said.

Researchers at Eurac Research have obtained a detailed picture of the microbial community associated with Ötzi, Europe's oldest known natural human mummy. The …

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have developed a new method to predict coral bleaching five to six months before it occurs, givi…

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet's most clima…

The destruction of wetlands in the United States has increased the amount of flood insurance claims by $10 billion over the past 40 years, a phenomenon expecte…

A dying 10-year-old girl in Delaware was helped to bed by her brothers after their father allegedly beat her so badly with a belt that she fell and fatally hit…

A Georgia man allegedly stabbed a 66-year-old great-grandma 18 to 20 times unprovoked on a commuter train and then stood over her and watched her bleed out. Th…

Meta is rolling out a new feature to limit harmful content shown to teenagers as part of a broader push to better protect kids online in the wake of two landma…

A "hardworking" Nevada dad on his morning commute had to get his hand amputated after it was left catastrophically mangled in a freeway ramp crash caused by a …

J.R. Wicker accuses the team behind the revenge thriller of copyright infringement for lifting ideas from his screenplay.

A man in Tennessee is accused of luring an embattled local school board member outside his house by shutting off his power and then shooting at him. The post '…