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Connecticut authorities said they did not find anything after a state trooper and another witness saw a large whale size object falling from the sky. Could it be a UFO?

The National Weather Service is assessing damage in the Texas Panhandle after a storm dumped some 4 feet of hail on Amarillo Wednesday, stranding motorists for hours.

Zimmerman will be arraigned on second-degree murder charges on May 29.

The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowling's new book for adults. The Harry Potter author has had an astonishing career writing all-ages tales, but her upcoming tome will be a major departure.

Swiftly and without much hullabaloo, Fox News exterminated The Fox Mole, a Fox News employee who had been feeding anonymous information to Gawker from inside the organization, in less than 24 hours. On Monday, at around 3 p.m. he published his first article. By Tuesday just before 9 p.m., The Fox Mole was fired and he revealed his true identity on Gawker as former Fox News employee Joe Muto.

George Zimmerman, accused of second-degree murder, will make his first appearance before a Florida judge on Thursday.

Reddit announced on Wednesday that the sister of a user named Black_Visions has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against nine Reddit users who egged him on when he threatened his own suicide, and that the site has also been subpoenaed in identifying the information of another three individuals.

After investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday, officials determined the parcels were harmless are allowing workers to return to their building

The “Mass Effect” franchise has always been known as a story-driven series, and now fans are uniting to expand and reinforce that ideal. The most recent charity project initiated by players of the space-themed RPG is called “Full Paragon” which seeks to raise money for the Kids Need to Read foundation.

Police are currently investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday.

A former employee of an upscale Manhattan Chinese restaurant, Chin Chin, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday that claims her co-workers harassed her with phallic shaped dumplings, some of which would end up on diners' tables. Yvonne Diaz, who worked as a bartender at the restaurant between 2007 and last year, claims that workers at the eatery put the dumplings in their crotch areas making it look like they had big penises, reported the New York Post.

Iron-eating bacteria is slowing disintegrating the the Titanic, scientists said. The wreck could be completely gone in 30 years.

South Park returned on Wednesday night to satire both Invisible Children's Kony 2012 viral video and the new documentary Bullying in the fifth episode of the show's sixteenth season. While Butter's struggles to confront his bullying grandmother, Stan's rise to fame thanks to an anti-bullying film he writes and directs leads to disastrous but hilarious results. Watch the full episode here.

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, appeared on NBC's Today to say that she believes the shooting death of her son was an accident.

Bethesda Softworks has been promising fans some new surprises, and now it seems that “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” announcement is finally unveiled. Players have been expecting a new DLC package, but this morning CNN reported that the widely popular RPG will be coming to Kinect.

The 2 -month search for missing Boston College Student Franco Garcia, has come to a tragic end after police divers recovered his body from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir near to his college campus on Wednesday.

A Korean Air passenger jet made an emergency landing at a Canadian military base after the airline's Los Angeles office received a bomb threat on Wednesday.

Melissa Borret, the owner of Fantasy Maid Service of Lubbock, is under fire from authorities for her nude maid service that roused controversy in a conservative Texas town. However, don't get it twisted. The service strictly offers patrons a cleaning service done by maids dressed in lingerie, topless or completely naked for $100 an hour, or $150 per hour for two maids seen in photos on the company website. Authorities said Borrett cannot operate a sexually oriented business without a ...

On my first visit back to my neighbourhood street after a long stint of living abroad, I felt l was plunging headfirst into the Great Indian melting pot.

Christiane Candice Lange, the 41-year-old girlfriend of Clark Gable Jr., was found dead on Wednesday in their Malibu home, the coroner's office reported.

The foreclosure activity in the US for the first quarter declined to the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a report by RealtyTrac.

If you live alone, is it better to be in a city like New York and be surrounded by so many people so you can feel a part of something just by virtue of proximity? Or does being that close to humanity without any significant connections only exacerbate feelings of loneliness? I think it would be great to be old in New York City. I'd take the dogs out for a walk in Battery Park, I'd sit on the park benches by the river with a stack of books that I'm plowing through, and I'd rock up to ...

“We did not come to this decision lightly. We do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition, Florida prosecutor Angela Corey said of the case against George Zimmerman, who was jailed without bond pending a court hearing.

Cases of dementia may double by 2030 and triple by 2050, says a new report from the World Health Organization. The infrastructure to deal with this increase in dementia is not yet in place; only eight countries have implemented national programs to deal with the syndrome.

The University of Southern California said two international graduate students were shot and killed in a possible carjacking early Wednesday morning. The two students, a young woman and a young man from China, were identified as Ying Wu and Ming Qu, said the university.

Bethesda Softworks and parent company ZeniMax, who are behind the sensational RPG franchise “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” have some new surprises in store for fans. Six new trademark applications have just been filed for the iconic dragon shout “Fus Ro Dah.”

George Zimmerman is set to be charged Wednesday with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. The case has renewed a national debate over racial issues, so the world will be watching to see how the nation reacts to the long-awaited announcement of charges against the admitted killer.

The controversy surrounding the so-called Jesus Tomb in Jerusalem continues over the 2,000-year-old Jonah Whale engraving which some archeologists claiming it represents the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Other scholars put forward the notion that the team led by filmmaker Simcha Jacobvici falsified the carving in a bid to deceive the public.

A Florida special prosecutor is expected to announce the charges against neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman on Wednesday afternoon.