Police in Michigan have released a dramatic video showing the moment an officer helped save a 2-year-old boy who authorities say was spotted “lifeless at the bottom” of a swimming pool.  The incident happened on July 9 in Sterling Heights, outside of Detroit, during what the Sterling Heights Police Department described […]

The daughter of former longtime New England Revolution goalkeeper Brad Knighton tragically died in a boating accident in South Carolina on Wednesday, family and officials confirmed. She was just 11-years-old.  Olivia Knighton was killed in a boating accident on the Intracoastal Waterway in Little River after the 23-foot boat she […]

Famed American singer Tony Bennett has died Friday at the age of 96. His publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to the Associated Press, saying that Bennett passed away in his hometown of New York. As of now there has been no specific cause of death announced, although Bennett was […]

Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like watermelon, eggplant and tomatoes — eventually transplanting them from his greenhouse into rich Vermont soil, hoping for a bountiful fall harvest. Within a few hours last week, those hopes were washed […]

The two men gunned down at a New Zealand construction site had worked alongside the shooter, police said Friday, and court records showed man had been convicted of domestic violence for attacking a girlfriend. New Zealanders were still in shock at Thursday’s rare shooting, which closed part of downtown Auckland […]

A police sergeant in a New York City suburb has been indicted on federal civil rights charges, accused of using his stun gun multiple times on a handcuffed man in mental crisis who was being involuntarily taken for medical treatment, prosecutors announced Thursday. Sgt. Mario Stewart, a commander on the […]

A public school district in Texas is pursing an eminent domain process to remove a 78-year-old man from the home that his family has owned for more than a century in order to build a high school football stadium parking lot. “I want you to understand what the significance of […]

“Die Hard” debuted in theaters 35 years ago this month, sparking a debate that has divided fans for decades. The question over whether the classic 1988 action film is a Christmas movie has become the subject of heated discussion every holiday season. Directed by John McTiernan, “Die Hard” stars Bruce […]

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has repeatedly warned against China’s investments in the United States and American universities, despite at least two higher education institutions in South Carolina hosting language and culture programs operated by the Chinese Communist Party during her tenure as governor of the Palmetto State. Last month […]

Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates “fascist ideologues” are “living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science.” In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon State University wrote about their shock at receiving sarcasm […]