Police say a mentally ill homeless man sneaked through a vehicle entrance at a Los Angeles airport, boarded an executive jet — and then when confronted put out a cigarette, causing $5,000 in damage to the plane's interior Thursday.
Officials say several dozen Ohio middle schoolers apparently ate extra-hot peppers brought in by a student and were treated by medics after some had adverse reactions.
A missionary from Spain who devoted her life to helping the poor in Haiti was fatally shot at a crowded intersection in the Caribbean country's capital Friday.
Marine Maj. Sterling Norton, 36, was killed when his F/A-18 Hornet crashed on July 28 during a live-fire nighttime training accident in Southern California.
Tampa community leaders and sheriff's officials pleaded Friday with the public to keep any protests peaceful following a deputy's fatal shooting of an unarmed black man earlier in the week.
Eleanor Roosevelt gets the credit for championing women's rights at the United Nations but two researchers have found the real heroines responsible for getting women into the U.N.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has announced that he will sign a peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia later this month in Cartagena.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the scheduled execution later this month of a man convicted of killing a Houston police officer 28 years ago.
A Connecticut man is accused of phoning in a threat to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School, which replaced the building that was demolished after 20 children and six educators were shot to death there in 2012.
Pages from the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s pribate email server are giving more insight into the attempted cyberattacks on the server, as well as the concerns from Clinton’s staff – and the former secretary of state herself – that the homebrew arrangement may have been compromised.
