The 2011 National Book Award ceremony was held in New York late Wednesday and hosted by actor, musician and author John Lithgow, featuring the finest writers, editors and publishers in the United States. The winners included: Jesmyn Ward, Stephen Grenblatt, Nikkey Finney and Thanhha Lai.
U.S. and Mexican authorities have announced on Nov.16, 2011 the seizure of an estimated amount of 17 tons of marijuana from a newly discovered cross border drug tunnel.
Shelby Dasher, the mother of Tyler Dasher, a dead 1-year-old Missouri boy, was charged with second-degree murder on Wednesday and is being held on $500,000 cash bail.
Calling former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky a coward for denying the 40 charges of child sex abuse against him, a lawyer for one of the alleged victims says comments by Sandusky and his attorney have spurred others to come forward, and condemned both the Second Mile founder and Penn State for victim-blaming and cover-up.
Ronnie Biggs is due to launch his new autobiography.
Don Peters, a former U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics coach, has been banned for life from the sport and kicked out of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame after he was accused of having sex with at least three young gymnasts.
While gossip columns report that, once again, Kate Middleton is pregnant, the palace confirmed the truth about the baby rumors, which are just that, rumors.
Starbucks denied rumors about efforts to shut down its public restrooms across 196 locations in New York City.
A big fire blazed through Fire Island Pines of New York’s Long Island on Monday night and needed 400 firefighters from 28 fire departments to be subdued. So far, no injuries were reported.
Subway signs in Brooklyn have been altered with graffiti in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.
A lockdown on East Carolina University (ECU) campus has been lifted after it has been determined that students or employees aren't in any danger. The lift came about three hours after police reported seeing a gunman near the campus.
A defense witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor was fined $250 on Wednesday, but escaped sanction for calling another witness a scumbag.
St. Louis police investigating the death of 13-month-old Tyler Dasher arrested his mother, Shelby A. Dasher, early Wednesday, a day after Tyler's body was discovered near the edge of the New St. Marcus Cemetery.
Allie Loftis, the 13-year-old runaway from Massachusetts, was found living in the home of a 42-year-old New Jersey man.
A James Madison University bus struck and killed an 18-year-old freshman.
A Catholic nun named Valsa John was murdered in the Indian state of Jharkhand on Tuesday.
Former Charles Manson follower Charles 'Tex' Watson is seeking parole for the fourteenth time this week. He has been in jail since 1971 for the Tate/LaBianca murders committed by the infamous 'Manson Family' in 1969.
Deforestation in northern regions linked to global cooling, researchers announced Wednesday.
The NYPD is searching for three men after beating a fourth man on the L train earlier this month.
The New York Giants were allegedly partying in a club where one man was killed and two others injured early Tuesday morning.
The East Village man, who allegedly got into a woman's apartment building and attempted to rape her before fleeing, scene has been arrested.
As the investigators have already followed thousands of leads in the case, Bernard thinks the ending of the case might be what no one wants to think of.
Julio Artuz, a 15-year-old special needs student, recorded on his cell phone camera his teacher verbally abusing him in the classroom.
A prominent forensic pathologist said a woman found hanged, bound and nude at the mansion of her wealthy boyfriend was less likely a victim of suicide, as police concluded, than of murder, and he urged a reopening of the case.
High-profile New York City mobster Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli has requested to have a prison furlough to attend his daughters wedding in Dec., but the furlough request was struck down.
The Pavilion dance club in Fire Island was destroyed late Monday night by a fire that raced through the Pines gay resort district, damaging a number popular establishments in the area.
The 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is quickly approaching and this year, some amazing new floats will make their way down Seventh Avenue.
World’s Seven Billionth Citizen at Higher Risk of Contracting Non-Communicable Diseases
Carmen Dell'Orefice, indisputably the world's oldest working model, will be the subject of a major photographic retrospective honoring her 66-year career in the fashion industry.
A victim of sexual abuse by a Penn State education professor tried unsuccessfully to alert the administration from 2001 to 2002, but Penn State officials refused to act, rather than investigate the victim's account, revealed the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC).