Kansas City-area businessman Greg Orman has submitted enough valid signatures to appear on the Nov. 6 ballot as an independent candidate for Kansas governor.
A driver in Oklahoma crashed into a 7-foot-long wild hog, killing the animal and totaling the car and leaving the driver with non-life-threatening injuries, Oklahoma state police said.
Lance Murphy says a police officer in Regina, Canada, shot his dog Missty as the pup ran with a ball in her mouth at a park. Police say the officer viewed the dog’s body language as threatening.
Police in Pasadena, Texas arrested 27-year-old Terrance Washington after they say he abducted 54-year-old Candace Adkin outside her apartment and burned her dead body after she died inside the car.
A Louisiana UPS driver “swerving erratically” was arrested Thursday for driving drunk, and had hydrocodone in her wallet coin pocket, according to the West Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Tucson, Arizona police dressed plastic mannequins up in police clothes and posed them by the side of the road to encourage speeders to slow down. They said it had a significant impact on how many tickets they wrote.
Bolley’s Famous Franks in Waterville, Maine, made a change to its menu that got customers so angry and threatening it had to release an official statement. The diner replaced crinkle cut French fries with straight cut.
Luis Guerrero, 18, died after a pair of teenagers, including his ex-girlfriend, stabbed and burned him to death in West Chicago, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney.
A study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry found that women with high levels of the stress hormone cortisol are up to twice as likely to have a baby girl with a mood disorder. It didn’t alter boy babies.
Deputies in Titus County, Texas, responded to Titus Regional Medical Center after a man from the Dallas-Fort Worth Area in his mid-20s shot himself in the leg after mistaking his handgun for his flashlight.
Two Arizona moms decided to have a photo taken of their baby London surrounded by hundreds of syringes needed to keep pregnancy viable. The photo went viral on social media and the mom says she wants it to inspire others.
Ohio police say Cody Powell and Michelle Hall overdosed on heroin while a baby sat in their hot car in Columbus. Eric Asher, who helped them along with his fiancée, gave the baby water until police arrived.
A new NASA photo of Mars shows a spot on the plant’s surface that looks to some people like Beaker, the scientist Muppet. It’s an “overdue honor for Earth’s most-abused Muppet,” says Live Science.
Members of the Granite City (Illinois) High School dance team were photographed against a police vehicle, with their coach on top of the car, during a community outreach event Wednesday.
Waffle House has a food truck to bring the restaurant’s food to customers. But it’s not accessible as a late-night stop. It caters weddings, birthdays, tailgating, reunions, religious and corporate events.
Arvada, Colorado, police are looking for help identifying a dog owner after a husky bit a woman in the face at a restaurant patio, and the owner and dog fled, video shows. The woman needed eye surgery.
A Mississippi man confessed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, hospital staff that he killed his grandmother because she wouldn’t let him use her car, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
A New Jersey serial rapist was sentenced to nearly 150 years in prison after prosecutors said he broke into couples’ motel rooms, made them have sex, locked the men in the bathroom and raped the women.
An attorney for an Arkansas judge who faces sanctions for participating in a death penalty demonstration the same day he blocked the use of an execution drug says the complaint against the jurist is more about optics than it is ethics.
CCTV footage captured the moment a bear attempted to wander into Crazy Bruce Liquor store in Bristol, Connecticut on August 13. It can be seen prowling the sidewalk before heading to the door.
