Eric Brown

People may be excited about Beyonce’s upcoming performance at Super Bowl XLVII, but another group of performers will be much more heart-wrenching than anything the pop superstar will put out.

The San Francisco 49ers are headed to the Super Bowl this Sunday, and while most teams in that position would welcome all the help they can get, but cornerback Chris Culliver says that he would never play on the same team as a gay man.

Two people have been rescued after a single-engine plane crashed into the Hudson River on Sunday night.

Big winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards show Sunday included the casts of “Argo,” "Downton Abbey," and "Modern Family."

British rock star Morrissey was reported hospitalized in Michigan on Friday night, but it now appears nobody is quite sure of the whereabouts of the former frontman of The Smiths.

Though President Obama is a noted fan of football, he stated in a recent interview that if he had a son, he would be extremely cautious before letting the hypothetical child play football due to the extreme physical toll it can take on a body.

U.S. fiscal sequestration is likely, according to Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee.

A fire broke out at a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil early Sunday morning, leading to the deaths of 232 people, according to Reuters. The event is the deadliest nightclub fire in over a decade.

Actor Randy Quaid has been denied a request for permanent residential status in Canada.

Washington Redskins offensive tackle Trent Williams will be unable to play in the NFL's Pro Bowl Sunday because of injuries sustained during a bar fight at a Honolulu nightclub early Friday.

Sixty-seven dead cats and 99 live cats were found in the home of an upstate New York woman suspected of having severe hoarding issues.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, spacecraft has produced an amazing series of photographs showing seasonal changes on Mars that include dry ice “smoke” carving grooves into the Red Planet’s sand dunes.

PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop using brominated vegetable oil in its Gatorade products, but what exactly makes the chemical unsafe?

Burt Reynolds has been hospitalized and placed in an intensive-care unit at a Florida hospital because of dehydration and flulike symptoms, according to one of his representatives.

Recipients of food stamps and other forms of public assistance -- as well as people who have filed for bankruptcy protection -- in North Carolina may be banned from purchasing lottery tickets.

Political junkies and/or fashonistas may have noticed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was wearing glasses during her Wednesday testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. So what’s the story behind Clinton’s new accessory?

“American Pie” singer Don McLean was fined $400 for speeding in a school zone on Thursday.

An Oregon lawmaker has proposed a bill that would essentially ban the sale and use of cigarettes by requiring that all nicotine products receive a doctor’s prescription.

If you’re deathly afraid of crocodiles, it might be a good idea to stay away from South Africa’s Limpopo River for a while, because roughly 15,000 crocodiles have escaped into the area surrounding the river.

Peugeot Citroen has unveiled a hybrid car that runs partly on the most environmentally friendly resource of all: air.

Dethroned cyclist Lance Armstrong may have been mounting the first steps of a career comeback with his much publicized interview on Oprah’s OWN Network, but that hasn’t stopped him from being hit with a lawsuit over lies pertaining to his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

If you’ve had a hard time finding a fix for TV featuring gratutitous zombie-violence over the past few months, you’re in luck. AMC has just released a trailer for the second half of “The Walking Dead” season 3. And as always, things just keep looking worse and worse for Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors.

Five people, including three children, were fatally shot -- allegedly by a 15-year-old boy -- in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday night.

Five people were reported injured at three Gun Appreciation Day shows in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio.

A Bulgarian politician was nearly assassinated on live television while giving a speech on Saturday as an assailant held a gun to his head.

Lady Gaga may be the featured performer at one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural balls Tuesday night.

The iron-hulled USS Hatteras was the only U.S. Navy ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico as a consequence of Civil War hostilities, but, 150 years after it slipped beneath the waves, it can finally be seen again -- and in high-resolution 3-D sonar images to boot.

Lance Armstrong may have just attracted millions of television viewers to his confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey on her eponymous Oprah Winfrey Network, but can he get audiences into theaters to watch his life story?

A new poll shows U.S. President Barack Obama heading into his second-term inauguration with an approval rating of 51 percent.