Federal investigators have begun looking into what might have caused a 74-year-old pilot to lose control of his vintage plane, causing it to crash during an air race in Reno, Nevada, on Friday. The crash took the life of the pilot and two others in the stands, and more than 50 others were sent to the hospital.
The Reno Air race crash on Friday afternoon was horrific, according to spectators. It has killed at least 3 people and injured over 50, with several in critical conditions, a local hospital told CNN Saturday morning.
Thousands of minnows saved from drought-stricken river.
Davis is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 21 for the murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989 in Savannah. However, Davis has maintained his innocence.
A series of three bomb blasts rocked Southern Thailand near the border with Malaysia, leaving three dead and dozens injured.
A team of scientists, led by biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju of the University of Delhi, have discovered twelve new species of frogs in addition to three others that were thought to be extinct in the mountains of western India.
A shooting accident took place at a gas station located at 2252 Lincoln Ave in San Jose on September in the morning. A man was shot there when he was pumping gas. The perpetrator hijacked a car about a mile away from the shooting site an hour later.
University of California (UC) regents and other officials engaged in a debate on Thursday over whether they should raise the tuition in the coming years and discussed how to raise funds to support the budget. They proposed a long-term budget plan that included a tuition hike as much as 16 percent every year. Nevertheless, the debate did not reach any conclusion and they will not vote for the budget until November.
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling several lots of birth control pills because of a packaging error that could leave women at risk for unplanned pregnancy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.
Despite some research linking low vitamin D levels to heart disease, a new study suggests that lacking D does not increase one's risk of an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
Men who jerked and flexed their legs involuntarily at night were more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in a new study of sleep and chronic disease in the 65-and-up crowd.
Simply suggesting that a treatment will ease chest pain may not only dampen the pain, but directly alter heart arteries, a small study concludes.
Solid evidence is often missing from the practice guidelines used by obstetrician-gynecologists across the U.S., a new study shows.
The mystery of the German Forest Boy continues as authorities struggle to find the identify of an English-speaking teen who emerged from the woods after 5 years.
Friends of an air racer and movie stunt pilot whose plane crashed into the edge of the grandstand at a Reno, Nevada air show Friday night said the pilot, Jimmy Leeward, 74, of Ocala, Fla., was a skilled airman and member of a tight-knit flying community.
Oktoberfest festival is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. And this year the mayor of Munich Christian Ude has tapped the first keg to kick off the 178th traditional German folk festival.
Investigators were still trying to find out what exactly caused the World War II vintage racing plane to plunge toward spectators at the Reno air races on Friday.
NASA's 6.5-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite would fall to Earth next week after the end of a productive scientific life.
NASA’s Kepler telescope discovered an uncommon planet that is located some 200 light years away from Earth with two suns.
Thousands of people joined rallies in Atlanta and around the world on Friday night to oppose the execution of the Georgia death row inmate, Troy Davis.
A vintage World War II plane crashed into a crowd and killed at least 12 people in Nevada on Friday.
Southern California unions and supermarket operators will negotiate through the weekend in a last-ditch bid to end an escalating Southern California supermarket labor dispute that could usher in the r1vegion's first grocery strike since 2003.
A 55-year-old man doused himself with gasoline and then set himself on fire on Friday outside a Piraeus bank branch in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
A team of astronomers may have answered one of the long-held mysteries in the universe - why some stars have companions while others are singles.
New York City, Long Island, and Upstate New York locations for International Coastal Cleanup day.
Hollywood did a bit better than the rest of California last month. The state's unemployment rate ticked up from 12 percent to 12.1 percent, with about 8,400 jobs lost during August, according to new U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.
Star bond-fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach breached his duties to Trust Company of the West in their messy divorce but the investment firm should not be awarded any damages, a jury ruled.
Hollywood did a bit better than the rest of California last month.
Arctic ice reaches second lowest point in 50 years.
Salvage crews are working to keep a Norwegian cruise ship from tilting over a day after a fatal fire on board killed two crew members.
