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Every student at an Iowa elementary school is treated to a special birthday celebration that includes a free calculator, a rendition of the happy birthday song and a paddling from the principal.

A Florida 10 year old boy fished , wrestled, then dragged home a 6 foot long alligator from a canal. The boy's grandfather immediately contacted authorities after discovering the alligator in his front yard. The boy was identified as Michael Dasher.

Elizabeth Smart, kidnapped from her home June 2002 at the age of 14, at last got justice on Wednesday as her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Casey Anthony trial entered the fourth day, with fiancée of Casey’s brother taking the stand on Friday and revealing that Casey had an amazing relationship with her daughter Caylee.

The passengers of the Air France Flight may not have realized that anything was wrong until the actual impact of the crash, according to information retrieved from the plane's black boxes.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's office was recently inundated with angry postcards and letters from people outraged by the looming enforcement of a rule that will limit beach lovers' access to the Jersey Shore.

The ill-fated Air France flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic ocean on June 1, 2009, en route from Rio De Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people onboard, had plunged at nearly 11,000 feet per minute during the final few minutes even as its pilots struggled to regain control following failure of speed sensors, French authorities revealed, Friday.

Officials announced that the search has switched to a water recovery operation in the area near the Golden Gate Bridge, ending the ground search since they think Allison killed herself. But there is no reason for Allison to suicide.

Authorities are expected to release an updated list of missing persons in the tornado-hit Joplin area in Missouri.

Moon has more water than previously thought, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers.

Online retailer Amazon has released the list of top ten most well-read cities in America, with Cambridge in Massachusetts topping the list, followed by Alexandria, Virginia.

NASA Astronauts Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff aboard Endeavour space shuttle switched their suits to battery power at 12:15 a.m. EDT on Friday, signifying the start of the final of four spacewalks for the mission.

The highly visible baby bump of French First Lady, Carla Bruni, at the Group of 8 summit meeting on Thursday confirms the pregnancy rumors that have circulated in the last couple of months.

Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.

Ryan Hamil, a three year-old boy missing in Oklahoma since Tuesday after a tornado ripped him and his brother from their mothers' side, was found dead Thursday as his father expressed deep anguish amid a large loss of life across the MidWest due to numerous tornadoes in recent weeks.

Sharlotte Hydorn opened the door Wednesday morning to her surprise to find federal agents carrying a warrant. They then began seizing boxes of suicide kits from her home.

Fifteen police officers in Tijuana, Mexico, have been suspended after it was discovered that the men forced a female detainee to put on a strip show for them.

The average New York driver saves more than $700 per year in gas, compared to the average driver in Mississippi, Natural Resources Defense Council states in its report, Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States' Gasoline Price Vulnerability and Solutions for Change.

Some 450 high-risk prisoners and over 1,000 state inmates with various offenses were freed as unsupervised parolee under a program created in January last year to ease overcrowding.

Elizabeth Smart has moved on from the horrifying ordeal she endured in 2002 and 2003 at the hands of her rapist Brian David Mitchell.

Memorial Day is one of those tricky holidays that falls on a different date from year to year, but unlike Easter, which jumps all over the spring, Memorial Day is always on the last Monday in May.

The Casey Anthony trial gained momentum on Wednesday as two former roommates of Casey Anthony and her ex-boyfriend testified that she never looked worried, depressed or angry after her daughter went missing.

One month before Regents exams begin, New York State education officials have decided to end the practice of rescoring tests to turn a just-failing grade into a passing grade.

Fifty-seven year old Brian David Mitchell, who had kidnapped Elizabeth Smart in 2002 and had repeatedly raped her while holding her captive for 9 months, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a federal judge on Wednesday.

A Marine in town for Fleet Week was struck and killed by a car on the West Side Highway in New York City, early Thursday.

Finally, the judgment has been made. The kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart, Brian David Mitchell, a homeless street preacher was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

A small air plane crashed near Faridabad, near outskirts of the Indain Capital, killing 10 people on Wednesday night, the local television channels reported.

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bed in June 2002, finally got justice after 9 years as her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison.

A small air plane crashed near Faridabad, near outskirts of the Indain Capital, the local television channels reported on early Thursday morning.