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A brilliant flurry in the sky near the Unicorn constellation is expected Thursday night over the eastern half of North America and all South America.

Authorities are investigating the death of a Washington State University student who was found dead at an off-campus house in Pullman, Washington, on Tuesday. Members of the Alpha Tau Omega called police after finding a 19-year-old male fraternity member unconscious and not breathing, according to the Pullman Police Department. Other students performed CPR, but medics who arrived on scene determined...

Authorities say a 17-year-old male was found dead in an off-campus house at Penn State and a fraternity has been suspended.

Michonne is about to officially say goodbye. “The Walking Dead” just hit San Diego Comic-Con and Danai Gurira confirmed that season 10 will be her last, as rumored earlier this year. “I can confirm this will be my final season as Michonne on the show,” she said on the Friday afternoon panel.

A suspect in a jewelry store robbery is in federal custody thanks to the quick thinking of a good Samaritan.

A heart-pumping pursuit Tuesday left at least three people hospitalized after a driver in a large motorhome with two dogs inside stormed through San Fernando Valley neighborhoods, crashing into cars and tearing off one side of the stolen vehicle when she hit a tree.

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Hofstra University called the behavior “unacceptable.”

Multiple law enforcement agencies descended on a USPS facility in New Jersey Tuesday morning after getting a report of an armed man asleep in his car, authorities say.

New York State Police are once again asking for the public’s help solving a heinous 1986 double homicide — a case where a man allegedly shot his own son 18 times and stabbed the son’s friend twice, killing both of them.

A Hofstra University fraternity on Long Island, New York, has been temporarily suspended after video was shared on social media purportedly showing Alpha Epsilon Pi members forcing a dog to drink beer from a keg at an off-campus party, NBC News reports. In a five-second video that has been viewed almost 100,000 times on Twitter, a male can be seen...

Chris Renaud returns as the director of the animated sequel. Patton Oswalt replaces original star Louis C.K. as Max, leading a cast that includes Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart, and Eric Stonestreet. Plus, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll, and Pete Holmes are joining the film as all-new characters.

A gun safe sold at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores nationwide in November and December is being recalled due to an issue with the safe’s locking mechanism, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says.

A driver busted out some dance moves before he was arrested at the end of a chase Tuesday night on several Southern California freeways.

A New Jersey college student who was brutally gang-raped at a fraternity party while bystanders videotaped it in 2014 is telling her story for the first time in an exclusive interview.

It was a story that made headlines nationwide: a New Jersey college student brutally gang-raped at a frat party while bystanders videotaped it. The victim is now telling her story for the first time in an effort to connect with other survivors. Michael George reports.

Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday. Vowing to “bring our voices together,” Harris would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds. Harris, a daughter of immigrant parents who grew up in...

You’ll have quite a few opportunities this year to look up and see some beautiful celestial events. Here are the dates of some meteor showers visible in the Northern Hemisphere this year.

Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson’s disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — maybe in the appendix. People who had their appendix removed early in life had a lower risk of getting the tremor-inducing brain disease decades later, researchers reported Wednesday. Why? A peek at surgically removed appendix tissue shows this...

A group of parents whose sons died from or were affected by fraternity hazing incidents have banded together to strengthen laws and policies and to appeal directly to fraternity members to stop the potentially dangerous practice, NBC News reported. The first goal of the Anti-Hazing Coalition is to pass legislation in Pennsylvania named for Tim Piazza that would punish hazing...