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A deaf dog is being hailed as a hero for saving the lives of a couple who escaped a fire that broke out in their New Hampshire home on Saturday.

A Texas mother gave birth to a hospital-record-setting baby boy who weighed in at nearly 15 pounds.

New York City’s night sky was illuminated for a few minutes with a green-blue-light after a transformer explosion.

David Brannon attacked his significant other with a ham during an argument about which day to eat it.

California marijuana dispensaries reported record-high holiday sales this Christmas as pot products became popular stocking stuffers this holiday season.

A New York City subway rider made a fellow passenger’s Christmas a little bit merrier after he found a purse stuffed with $10,000 and returned it.

A woman who survived California’s “Camp Fire” recently named her newborn after the medic who saved her life in November.

A five-mile section of the 134 Ventura freeway has been renamed after 44th President, and former local student, Barack Obama.

Monterey Bay Aquarium has apologized for calling Abby the otter fat in a joke Twitter post, which it claimed was “problematic and insensitive” for referencing “African American Vernacular English.”

A 93-year-old Marine veteran is going above and beyond to show his dedication to his late wife by taking three buses from his Hawaii apartment to visit his wife’s grave nearly every day.

Elon Musk promised to display a self-driving car traveling down a futuristic tunnel system to demonstrate the Boring Company’s abilities — instead, the company showed a regular car driving down a bumpy, patchwork tunnel.

New York State Senator Kevin Parker, a member of the Democratic Party, told a woman on Twitter to kill herself, Tuesday.

A homeless man has been on a mission to make people feel like 100 bucks by handing out $100 bills to those who stop to pay attention to him.

Ludington-based FloraCraft’s owner and Chairman Lee Schoenherr announced almost $4 million in holiday bonuses during lunch on December 14.

SpaceX investors are reportedly beginning to question the company’s investment in one of Elon Musk’s pet projects, tunnel construction firm The Boring Company.

Three brothers have found their forever home on Monday after a family adopted them out of foster care so they could stay together.

A Missouri judge is making an example of poacher David Berry Jr. and his family by ordering him to repeatedly watch the Disney classic Bambi during his jail time.

Google has announced plans to develop a New York campus costing $1 billion as the company doubles the size of its workforce in the city.

A food delivery robot spontaneously caught on fire at the University of California Berkeley on Friday afternoon. Students reacted by setting up a candlelight vigil for it.

The state of California has abandoned its plan to begin taxing text messages in January, which would have allegedly been used to fund cell phone access for the poor.

Christmas came early for seven siblings after an Arkansas couple fought to adopt them out of the state’s foster care system.

A parade float at Disneyland collapsed on Saturday during the California theme park’s Christmas parade, leaving Santa Claus dangling from his sleigh, according to video footage of the incident.

A truck driver rescued two dogs on Wednesday after a motorist flung the animals from a vehicle barreling down an upstate New York highway, police said Friday.

Pierce College has been forced to abandon its “free speech zone” policy after losing a lawsuit that was sparked after a student was told he couldn’t hand out copies of the Constitution on campus.

Tesla continues to lose executives at a rapid pace with the company’s head of digital product, Parag Vaish, leaving to join a startup at Google’s incubator.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner revealed Thursday that he had tried to recruit four other candidates to run for governor in his place, offering them money and political support rather than facing re-election himself.

A New York City subway rider made a citizen’s arrest Thursday on a passenger accused of assaulting a fellow passenger on the D train.

The death of Fox 2 meteorologist Jessica Starr of Novi, Michigan, was announced by her colleagues via social media on Thursday.

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court has quit the Republican Party over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.

Officials announced on Wednesday that the three would-be spelunkers have been found alive after going missing inside an inactive coal mine.

A bunch of Grinches on a city council in the United Kingdom threatened a woman with fines for putting up posters inviting people who are lonely to enjoy a free Christmas dinner.

California’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) voted Wednesday to approve the Bay-Delta plan, which will re-allocate water from farms and cities to the environment in an effort to restore dwindling fish numbers.

Dozens of bomb threats were reported Thursday at various government buildings, media outlets, banks, and schools.

Harvard University is buying up vineyards in California’s wine country, reportedly to gain access to the water rights allotted to those properties.

Wired published an article recently giving a unique perspective into what it’s like to work under Tesla CEO Elon Musk from the point of view of a young Tesla engineer, who suffered what one Tesla manager calls an “Elon rage firing.”

Illinois is an abortion “haven” with few restrictions on the procedure, says a recent report in the Chicago Tribune that cites thousands of women traveling into the state to end their pregnancies.