A golden retriever named Kobe, dying of a brain tumor, is getting a whirlwind tour in his last days, as the Mira Mesa couple that owns him is treating him to trips, including one to Sea World to see Shamu.
A dilapidated, 765-square-foot earthquake shack in San Francisco sold for $408,000 this week–a deal that is seen as a bargain considering the difficulty of finding a home under half a million dollars in the city’s surging real estate market.
South Korea has introduced “death experience” schools as a way to combat the country’s high suicide count. Statistics estimate that at least 40 people kill themselves in South Korea every day.
HONOLULU — A shark attack victim is telling his amazing story of survival.
Residents in Odessa, Ukraine, traded one dark lord for another. A Vladimir Lenin statue has been transformed into an homage to Darth Vader.
California will soon provide taxpayer-funded genital altering “sex change” surgery for prison inmates, with a new policy coming out this week that includes standards to approve the estimated $100,000 procedure.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, whose identity was not released, found a hand grenade and brought it to the parking lot of a Torrance courthouse on Tuesday, sparking members of the sheriff’s bomb squad to arrive out of fear that the grenade might still be active.
Heavy rain caused destructive flash flooding in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles on Tuesday, but city officials say another culprit was to blame for the wet, muddy mess: a discarded mattress.
The government of Indonesia will being to introduce the practice of “chemical castration” into their criminal justice system as a way to keep convicted pedophiles from repeat crimes and as a deterrence to potential criminals. Chemical castration involved the use of hormones to subdue and eliminate the libido of a sex offender.
Sixty-one wingsuit skydivers have flown into the record books, creating a diamond-shaped formation while soaring over California before breaking apart and floating to the ground.
An ordinary drive to work on Sunday night turned into a heroic moment for Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department custody assistant Jesse Hernandez, who is being credited for saving 42 people who were stuck in a burning bus in Hacienda Heights.
Members of a marching band in Texas could be suspended over a fruit basket that school administrators say was racist. According to Fox 8 in Houston, TX, the tradition for members of the Atascocita High School band is to exchange gifts
An undercover police investigation in Chicago has led to the closing of a grocery store and charges against its owner. According to Fox 32’s undercover operation, as well as undercover police, Uptown Grocery was not only selling groceries, but also running a
Arrest warrants for child endangerment have been filed against two women after a two-year-old boy was hit up to 22 times with a backscratcher at a Cleveland, OH daycare. Surveillance video caught a daycare worker hitting the little boy on Wednesday. After striking the boy with
One Sacramento bride’s family turned a traumatic wedding event into an altruistic and beautiful affair, burying their despair after the groom backed out at the last second and using their $35,000 wedding meal to feed the homeless.
Leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has challenged an opposition party Congressman to a fistfight on national television and received an enthusiastic “yes” from Congressman Andrés Páez, who promised to pay his medical bills after the fight.
An female student at the University of California San Diego has blown the whistle on a fraternity member’s salacious Facebook request for “rush boobs”–for her to expose her breasts in a photo for rush week.
Police say a shooting at the annual ZombiCon gathering in Florida has left one person dead and four more injured, causing a chaotic scene that sent throngs of zombie-dressed revelers running through the streets.
Three men have been arrested in rural China after being caught attempting to raid the tomb of a woman who died single in order to sell her corpse to the family of a deceased, single young man, to be used in a practice known as a “ghost wedding.”
The New York Times has some advice for parents considering what costume their preteen girls should wear this Halloween: Go “sexy.”
On Thursday, Los Angeles Metro officials reiterated their request for passengers to report any sexual harassment they experience on trains and buses.
A $50,000 driveway for sale in San Francisco’s Light District is highlighting the exorbitant heights of the city’s real estate market.
On Thursday morning, the Juniperro Serra statue at Lower Presidio Park in Monterey was found decapitated.
The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman continued fame has made turned the fugitive capo into a household name world wide.
The largest hospital in Europe’s rape-capital Sweden has opened a rape centre for men and boys, a crucial badge of honour for their commitment to “gender equal” patient care. The hospital’s pre-existing rape crisis centre has proven a useful service for
