SHENZHEN, China (AP) — At least 91 people were missing Monday, a day after a man-made mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
A famous property developer who helped develop the Ritz-Carlton developments in Washington and Aspen, Colorado may go to jail because his gargantuan 30,000 square foot Bel-Air, California residence, nicknamed the “Starship Enterprise,” which boasts several floor levels balanced on a hillside and includes a 70-seat IMAX cinema, violated city planning orders.
Elaine Brown, 72, former head of the Black Panthers from 1974 to 1977, and who was implicated (though never charged) in the murder of accountant Betty Van Patter, is suing the city of Oakland for $1 million after Councilwoman Desley Brooks allegedly assaulted her at a local restaurant.
A Santa Claus performer in Texas claiming to have a child pornography addiction is facing federal charges in connection with the downloading of explicit photos and videos–with some of the children depicted being as young as four-years-old.
On Friday, a woman who murdered her six-week-old daughter by putting her in a microwave for up to five minutes was sentenced to 26 years to life in a Sacramento court.
Historic research has unveiled the fact that Germany’s Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, did indeed have only the one functioning testicle. A version of a wartime propaganda song known to British soldiers and generations of schoolchildren alleged that Hitler only had
[Adult Language Warning] Thursday on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” while discussing the Omnibus Spending Bill and Tax Extenders Package, Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) received a vulgar comment from a caller on the line for Democrats. The caller, identified as Glenn from
When dozens of ships carrying decaying bodies began to wash ashore near Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, theories abounded regarding who were on the ships, where they were coming from, and what led to their deaths.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to remove prior support for a 2016 “State of Jefferson” ballot measure.
EILAT, Israel – An Islamic State militant writing in a closed encrypted instant messaging group joked that the terrorist organization should ask beverage companies to serve as corporate sponsors for the group’s next major attack. The jest was made at the expense
Last week during an episode of HLN’s “Nancy Grace,” host Nancy Grace discussed a video of a girl gang beating up white female in Oklahoma that surfaced on Facebook last week. Transcript as follows: GRACE: Live, Del City, Oklahoma, caught on video.
The massive migrant influx into Germany from mainly-Muslim countries has reportedly boosted business for a local company selling ‘fake hymens’ to women eager to prove their virginity to partners. According to its website, VirginiaCare produces the “self-dissolving artificial hymen with real imitation blood” as
An unidentified California woman drove her dead 82-year-old husband cross-country overnight in the couple’s RV, arriving in San Diego on Monday.
On Sunday, a 55-year-old known homeless man was found shot dead near Heritage Park in Santa Ana.
A video posted on the Social Findlay Facebook page yesterday shows employees and customers stopping a man attempting to rob an Ohio gas station in November, according to WTOL. Findlay, OH police were called to the Marathon station after a man
According to a report from Atlanta, GA NBC affiliate 11 Alive, a Texas plumber is suing an auto dealer after the truck he sold them ended up in an ISIS video. A picture showing Mark Oberholtzer’s truck, still showing the business
Two women suffered non-life threatening injuries Sunday evening, when one accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal while trying to park, causing her to drive off the third floor of a parking structure in San Diego’s popular Fashion Valley Mall, nosediving into the ground.
Over the weekend, famed actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 90th birthday at The Grove in Los Angeles along with a flash mob that danced and joined him in singing songs from Mary Poppins.
An axe-wielding University of North Texas hospitality student has been killed by police following a confrontation on campus that terrorized students.
BEIJING (AP) — An all-female band formed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un canceled its concerts in Beijing and abruptly left the Chinese capital on Saturday for unknown reasons, possibly further cooling relations between the traditional allies.
An abnormally large number of desert locusts are expected to hatch beginning in January in Yemen, threatening to eat through a chunk of an already dangerously depleted food supply. Most Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid for food and water following a year of civil war and the rise of jihadist violence in the Middle East’s poorest nation.
On Thursday, the FAA temporarily banned flights below 2000 feet over the northwest San Fernando Valley. The no-fly zone was imposed because of a fear that flights could ignite a gas leak initially discovered in October over Porter Ranch.
New Zealanders have chosen a silver fern on a black-and-blue background as a preferred option if the South Pacific nation decides to dump Britain’s Union Jack from its national banner, officials said Friday. The design beat four other contenders in a
A Coachella man was arrested Sunday on carjacking charges after he attempted to steal a FedEx delivery truck–but failed because he did not know how to drive it.
Feeling squeezed by exploding rent increases in the Golden Gate City? Fear not, for there is a refurbished FedEx truck with your name on it–at a steal.
