Jeff Stone

King was recently named the second-most-inspiring person of the 20th century, a title that's all the more incredible because of his little-known quirks.

While no one lost their life in the accident, many of those who were injured had to be extracted from the mangled wreckage via an overhead crane.

Feelings of loneliness not only weigh on the mind, but also can cause enough harm to the body to take years off someone’s life, according to new research.

It’s easy to picture the writers at “Saturday Night Live” being overwhelmed with the number of pop-culture fiascos to skewer this week.

A new documentary promises to tell the story of The Eagles’ formation, chart-topping hits such as “Hotel California,” and what’s happened since the group's members reunited in 1994.

In an effort to alleviate the physical and mental strain on troops, the U.S. Marine Corps is now including meditation in its training regimen.

Russian police are searching for a masked attacker who threw acid into the face of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.

Chew, a central character in HBO's "The Wire," died in his sleep on Thursday in his home in Northwest Baltimore. He was 52.

Notre dame star linebacker Manti Te’o confessed he misled his family and the press about the details of his relationship with Lennay Kekua but denied any involvement in creating the story during an interview on Friday.

The wide receiver is expected to play on Sunday.

Actor Christopher Walken has remained almost completely silent since news broke that police were reopening their investigation into the drowning of actress Natalie Wood.

After the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, met defeat by congressional inaction last year, its failure stood as proof of Netizens' power to rally against and thereby halt legislation that is portrayed as censorship. With Friday the first anniversary of SOPA’s defeat, activists have dubbed Jan. 18 Internet Freedom Day, an unofficial holiday that celebrates transparency online.

Lance Armstrong is probably hoping the second part of his two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey goes a little better than the first one did. The former Tour de France champion admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs in each of his seven title-winning races, but did little to woo the public he was trying to win back.

Coffeehouses and cafes with public Internet access will not be affected by the coming Six-Strikes anti-piracy scheme, but not all businesses will be subject to the same clemency.

Teammates on the USC Trojans are denying reports that the team’s ugly loss in the Sun Bowl to Georgia Tech followed them into the locker room and overflowed into an all-out brawl.

Democrats, Republicans and anyone with a sense of humor will be thrilled to learn that The Onion, the beloved satirical newspaper, will be publishing their own versions of Vice President Joe Biden’s autobiography.

Stewart opened “The Daily Show” Wednesday night with a scathing and hysterical rebuke of the NRA’s reaction to Obama’s gun control proposal.

Dick Wagner is back onstage after a heart attack and stroke in 2007 put his entire career, one that’s seen the guitarist perform with Kiss, Alice Cooper and Frank Sinatra, in jeopardy. Wagner was working through his rehabilitation when new symptoms began to appear, eventually pointing his doctors to a form of “curable dementia.”

After issuing a press release declaring their intention to protest the funeral of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, members of the Westboro Baptist Church were nowhere to be found outside the ceremony on Tuesday.

Now that Lance Armstrong has come clean about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, the former cycling champion could face a lawsuit, potentially costing him millions.

Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher was legally drunk when he shot his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins nine times before turning the gun on himself in front of team staff at Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 1, according to his autopsy report released Monday.

Prosecutors have posthumously dismissed all charges against Internet activist and Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz three days after he was found dead. The online consensus, though, seems to be that the government’s decision is too little, too late, at least in part because of the general perception that overzealous attorneys were to blame for much of Swartz’s inner turmoil.

L. Rafael Reif, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sent out a campuswide email Sunday announcing a probe into the school’s legal battle with Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-owner and Internet activist who killed himself Friday.

The government of Saudi Arabia defended its decision to execute a former housemaid who had controversially been convicted of murdering the child in her care.

With the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination quickly approaching Dallas construction crews spent Monday bulldozing the former home of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Swartz was facing serious charges, and people close to him believe a possible 35-year term, along with his depression, led to his death.

Oracle Corp. announced it was preparing an update to provide a fix for the Java security flaw that had the Department of Homeland Security encouraging computer users to disable Java in their web browsers to avoid being compromised by hackers.

A contest is underway to help rid the Everglades of a deadly invader, the Burmese python. More than 700 people from 32 states and Canada congregated on Fort Lauderdale, Florida Saturday to kick off the state-sponsored 2013 Python Challenge.

Aaron Swartz's family is accusing the U.S. attorney and MIT of driving him to suicide for allegedly hacking JSTOR.