Purple may have been the first color of life on Earth because early organisms absorbed the sun’s energy using the molecule retinal instead of Chlorophyll, important for photosynthesis and a giving greenish hue.
After a Colorado news station reported that private Facebook groups are organizing chicken pox parties and play dates for kids, people on social media were shocked. The CDC warns against going to a pox party.
The Flushmate II 501-B pressure-assisted flushing system has been recalled because it can burst and blow the tank of the toilet. It’s used in American Standard, Kohler, Corona, Crane and Mansfield toilets.
Former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, now 44, was released from prison Monday in Clinton, N.C.. He served nearly 19 years in prison for conspiring to murder Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with Carruth’s child when she was shot in 1999.
“Rampage” star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson caught heat with a throwback photo of himself wrestling a gator named Big Bertha. Critics charge the action star with animal cruelty, though the photo has earned more than 4 million likes.
Fifteen gallons of diesel fuel were siphoned from a Federal Emergency Management Agency RV parked at the Hilton Garden Inn near Coastal Grand Mall, according to a police report. No arrests have been made.
A Rockville, Maryland woman was attacked by five pit bulls while walking her dog Addie, cops say. The pit bulls attacked again when cops arrived. Addie was in serious condition and the woman had bite wounds.
A man accused of shooting his live-in girlfriend and her 10-year-old son told deputies they attacked him after an argument over changing the channel to watch a football game, an arrest report says.
From San Diego to New York, Mega Millions players are dreaming of how they would spend the record $1.6 billion jackpot should they beat the astronomical odds of winning.
If there were any remaining doubts about the culpability of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, they were removed Friday evening.
The search for a man accused of shooting and killing a Gwinnett, Ga., police officer entered its third day Monday as officers canvassed the area near his mother's home.
FONTANA, Calif. – Looking at a map of California on a projector screen, Johannes Moenius, an economics professor at the University of Redlands, hovered his mouse over the Inland Empire, which glowed with a splotch of red pixels.
An Associated Press analysis finds states are taking very different approaches to spending the first emergency money from Congress targeting the opioid epidemic.
A video showing a confrontation on a street in Brooklyn, N.Y. between a white woman and a black family has gone viral, generating millions of views. The white woman claimed she was 'sexually assaulted' by a 9-year-old boy.
