In a letter posted on Courtant.com, First Lady Michelle Obama paid tribute to the “beautiful, innocent children” and “heroic educators” that were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting last Friday. Mrs. Obama also vowed that she and Preside ...
Newtown, Connecticut residents will say their final goodbyes today to six more victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. Funerals are scheduled for teacher Victoria Soto and students Charlotte Bacon, 6; Daniel Barden, 7; and Caroline Previdi ...
Journalist David Oliver Relin, who is perhaps best known for co-writing the best-selling book Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson, has died. The New York Times reports Relin committed suicide on November 15 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Relin’s ...
A new mom appears to have taken her love of social media to the extreme. In a birth announcement on her Facebook page, the woman called her daughter Hashtag in an apparent tribute to Twitter.
In another move to distance himself from his Livestrong foundation, Lance Armstrong has resigned from the organization’s board of directors. Livestrong spokeswoman Katherine McLane tells the Daily News Armstrong will remain close to the cancer fo ...
Native American activist and actor Russell Means died today at his home on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. An Oglala Lakota Sioux representative said the 72-year-old had been battling esophageal cancer. The cancer spread to his lung ...
Three small earthquakes struck California early this morning, but no damages or injuries have been reported. Police say they received thousands of calls about the tremors.
A Montana man hoping to trick people into thinking they had spotted Bigfoot died Sunday night while trying to pull off his hoax on Highway 93 near Kalispell. Police say Randy Lee Tenley was dressed in a Ghillie suit, a type camouflage that resemb ...
Buckingham Palace confirms Prince Philip has been hospitalized in Scotland for treatment of a recurring bladder infection. The Duke of Edinburgh, who has been married to Queen Elizabeth for 65 years, was taken by ambulance from the royal family’s ...
New York authorities are still trying to determine the cause of death for a woman who was found floating in Carmel’s Lake Gleneida with a young girl clinging to her body and crying for help. The woman has been identified as 59-year-old Brewster r ...
Jim Walton announced his resignation as president of CNN Worldwide Friday, saying the company needs a “new leader” and “new thinking.” Walton, who has worked at CNN for more than three decades, will leave at the end of the year.
The teen that died at Niagara Falls Tuesday during a police chase has been identified as Ryan Dube, an 18-year-old who had been living at the Boys and Girls Club’s Nightlight Youth Services residence in Ontario.
Dr. Sally Ride, a former NASA flight engineer who was the first American woman to ever travel to space, has died. Ride passed away Monday after more than a year of battling pancreatic cancer, according to a statement on her official website Sally ...
Legendary Harlem restaurant owner Sylvia Woods passed away Thursday at the age of 86. Woods, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, died at her Westchester County home a few hours before she set to be presented with an award from Mayor Michael Bl ...
A New Jersey boy died Wednesday after being crushed by a collapsing sand tunnel on a Long Branch beach the day before. Local authorities say the 12-year-old Oakhurst resident passed away in the pediatric intensive care unit at Monmouth Medical Ce ...
A massive $3.2 million yacht sank for unknown reasons in Lake Tahoe early Monday morning, California authorities have confirmed. About a dozen people were said to have been on the boat when it began to sink. No injuries or deaths have been reported.
British authorities have arrested billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing after finding his American wife, Eva Rausing, dead in the couple’s Chelsea, London home. Eva’s body was found Monday by police who were searching the home in connection with Hans ...
A Florida boy credits Swamp Men with helping him survive an alligator attack on Monday. The attack left Fred Langdale with his right arm severed below the elbow, but the 17-year-old has no regrets about how he fought the alligator.
In a letter posted Monday on the Daily Beast, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper admits he is gay. Cooper wrote the letter to his longtime friend Andrew Sullivan after the Daily Beast writer asked for his opinion on the “visibility” of gay people.
A massive wildfire ranging near Colorado Springs, Colorado doubled in size overnight. Colorado Springs Fire Chief Richard Brown called the blaze a “firestorm of epic proportions.” The Waldo Canyon fire has already scorched 24 square miles and for ...