SAN DIEGO — A California woman had given up hope she would find her 9-month-old puppy until she spotted the animal in a newscast of a high-speed chase. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Salina Hurtado of Oceanside says her puppy, Catalina, went missing soon after Thanksgiving. Hurtado says she then watched a local television news...
A Houston woman was arrested for posing as her ex-boyfriend online in a bizarre catfish scheme to frame him, according to officials. Lisa Marie Garcia, 22, was charged Friday after she allegedly made bogus threats to herself while impersonating her ex Brandon Berrott on social media, news station WCMH reported. “Lisa Garcia created a fake...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The NFL suspended Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski one game for a late, gratuitous hit to the head of Buffalo defensive back Tre’Davious White. White was lying face down on the sideline after intercepting a pass Sunday when Gronkowski body-slammed him, driving his forearm into White’s back and head. Gronkowski was called...
LaVar Ball is taking the reins on his suspended son’s basketball future. Ball is pulling LiAngelo Ball out of UCLA and off its basketball team, TMZ reported Monday, as the freshman continues to serve an indefinite suspension for a shoplifting arrest in China last month. The younger Ball and the two freshman teammates with whom...
Santa has a good reason to downsize his bag this year — fewer toys gives kids a better quality of playtime, a new study claims. Toddlers with just a few toys were more creative and focus than tots with more choices, according to the study, published in an upcoming edition of the journal Infant Behavior...
WASHINGTON/SALT LAKE CITY – U.S. President Donald Trump announced big cuts to Utah’s sprawling wilderness national monuments on Monday, angering tribes and environmental groups that want to keep the areas off limits to development. Trump’s announcement follows a months-long review by the Interior Department that he ordered in April to identify which of 27 monuments...
This pizza party was star-studded. NASA recently shared a video of astronauts aboard the International Space Station making a bunch of personal pizzas in zero gravity. ISS program manager, Kirk Shireman, sent up the pizza-making ingredients after Italian Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli said how much he missed his favorite food. “When you really, really...
EL PASO, Texas — Customs and Border Protection agents in El Paso say a woman who initially told inspectors she had nothing to declare as she was entering the country from Mexico was found carrying 227 pounds of contraband bologna in her car. The discovery last week was made at a secondary examination station and...
Matches between top six teams rarely live up to the hype. Manchester United versus Arsenal exceeded it. Both teams came out to play. Both teams executed their game plans. Both teams played well, scored great goals, and dominated portions of the game. It was the best game of the Premier League season so far. Jose...
Chilling notes from an Auschwitz inmate forced to help Nazi murder squads have finally been deciphered — almost 75 years after they were written. Marcel Nadjari penned his account of life in the infamous death camp in 1944 but his manuscript, written in his native Greek, was illegible when it was discovered in 1980 after...
Smokers could be predisposed to the habit because of the make-up of their brains, research suggests. The behavior of molecules produced at the synapse connection points between nerve cells could make them more likely to smoke cigarettes. And the discovery could also have wider implications for understanding the molecular basis of other aspects of human thought....
Wait — which eight should you call? The warring law partners behind Cellino & Barnes, the personal injury firm know for its ‘Don’t wait, call 8’ jingle, now have dueling toll-free phone numbers. Ross Cellino — the partner with more hair — is suing Stephen Barnes to dissolve the Buffalo-based firm over disagreements about the...
From the left: Impeachment Odds Are Dropping Since Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, many on the left have been gleefully predicting the imminent removal from office of President Trump. But The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart disagrees: In fact, he says, the chances of the House “passing articles of impeachment — and the Senate ratifying them — have...
Hidden in the depths of Qiandao Lake in China lies an eerily beautiful sunken city. Its ornate temples and intricately carved monuments perfectly preserved, a peculiar time capsule of Imperial China. The city, known as Shi Cheng, lies 140 feet underwater in Zhejiang province, 250 miles south of Shanghai. Built during the Eastern Han Dynasty,...
A mom whose heart stopped for four minutes while she was pregnant has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Kelley Evans and her husband Gareth thought she was suffering a panic attack when she struggled to breathe at 23 weeks pregnant. But little Ava and her mom are lucky to be alive after the mom-of-two...
PITTSBURGH — A special education teacher has been fired from her job after being accused of having sex with a student. KDKA-TV reports the abuse happened at Summit Academy, a private school for court-adjudicated youth between the ages of 14 and 19. According to court documents, Summit hired 24-year-old Jordan Ondish in June. Investigators say...
Governors of three high-tax states said Monday they’re considering suing to stop the GOP-backed tax overhaul that limits deductions for state and local taxes. ”We are looking at the legality now. This is double taxation. They are taxing the taxes,” said Gov. Cuomo during a conference call with California Gov. Jerry Brown and New Jersey...
Footage released by CNN shows men being sold at an auction in Libya. The footage shows an auctioneer standing in front of a group of young men, shouting: “Big strong boys for farm work. 400? 700? 800?” CNN traveled to Libya to verify the authenticity of the footage. There, they secretly filmed an auction outside...
Thousands of fans have marched to back a TV star, dubbed “the Lord of television,” who says his government is trying to steal the result of a presidential election, which has sparked deadly protests and a military-enforced curfew. Hundreds have been arrested in violent protests across Honduras that have left at least three dead after...
A father and his son died while trying to land a gyrocopter at an airport in Mississippi, authorities said. Wayne House, 70, and his son, Richard House, 43, were killed when the two-seater experimental aircraft crashed while coming in for a landing outside of Eagles Ridge Airport, DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Alex Coker told...
The Yankees now know they will not land Shohei Ohtani, but Brian Cashman vowed that the $3.5 million in international pool dollars they had earmarked for the best player in Japan will be spent. “We have between now and June (the 15th to be precise) to use it and we will do so,” Cashman said....
Employees arriving to work Monday at the Golden Krust plant in the Bronx — where the founder and CEO of the beef-patty empire killed himself over the weekend — were met with a message from the family-owned business’ rep calling the death “a devastating loss.” In the message, posted outside the door of the Park...
Turkey cannot be tried by “virtual courts” in the United States, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said derisively over the weekend in that country’s latest attack on a Manhattan federal trial where high-level Turkish officials have been accused of bribery and money-laundering. “My country can never be condemned by virtual courts set up by FETO (Fethullahist...
The White House’s top lawyer told President Trump in January that he believed then-national security adviser Mike Flynn had lied to Vice President Pence, CNN reported on Monday. Flynn also misled the FBI, and White House counsel Donald McGahn urged the president to can the former Army general, the network said, citing sources. The report...
Nestled in the ethereal landscape of rugged mountain ranges, lush forests and ancient villages of Southern Italy, there is a town that holds a sinister secret. With stories of deformed births, suspicious car accidents and freaky natural disasters, the hilltop town in Italy’s southern region of Basilicata, Colobraro, is believed to be so badly cursed...
