Three people were rescued from water after a bridge along Interstate-5 in Washington State collapsed on Thursday evening, plunging cars into Skagit River below, according to Washington State Patrol.
Amid a raft of Pentagon initiatives to slow its suicide crisis, a new Army report showed the pace of self-inflicted deaths among soldiers — and all service members — has barely budged so far this year from the record rate the military suffered during 2012.
A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev allegedly confessed to a unsolved triple homicide before he was shot and killed after attacking an FBI agent.
Texans are being warned to be careful while gardening after the discovery of giant African land snails.
The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping.
The northern snakehead fish is native to China, Russia, and Korea, but has been spotted in New York City. The fish eats frogs and crayfish and has the ability to breathe air and live for days out of water in certain conditions. So naturally, it must be eradicated.
About one in six people who owe money on their student loans is in default. Such a debt load is a harsh reality that is forcing a growing number of young people to look north to Canada for an education they can better afford.
Despite a serious throat wound preventing him from speaking, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect is beginning to respond to questions from investigators.
Sixty people are still unaccounted for after a fertilizer plant exploded earlier in the week, flattening part of a small Texas town and killing 12 people, officials said.
The ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker were both postmarked April 8 and sent from Memphis, Tenn., signed "I am KC and I approve this message." A third letter went to Michigan Sen. Carl Levin.
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