Michael Billera

A California school district has fired science teacher Stacie Halas for performing in a pornographic film under the pseudonym Tiffany Six.

Verna McClain was charged early Wednesday for the murder of Kala Marie Golden and the abduction of her 3-day-old son Keegan Schuchardt. At a hearing McClain, a registered nurse, was denied bail and faces capital murder charges that could lead to the death penalty.

A watchdog group within the Vatican said they plan a major crackdown for nuns in the United States, accusing them of taking positions that undermine Roman Catholic traditions and teachings.

Sheree Whitfield, famed television personality from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, has elected to leave the show for good. After four seasons on the show, she is calling it quits.

On Wednesday, famed television personality and entertainer, Dick Clark, died of a massive heart attack.

Two fishermen in Mexico's Sea of Cortez caught a great white shark measuring nearly 20 feet and weighing almost 2,000. At 20 feet long, this would be considered one of the largest fish ever captured.

Once again, government authorities in Mexico were forced to raise the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano, which lies just southeast of Mexico City, due to its increasing activity and the impending possibility of an eruption. The alert level is at the fifth level out of a seven-level scale.

A woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a young mother and the kidnapping of her infant son near Houston.

Randy Cox was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, seminoma. His 6-year-old son, Drew, was desperate to save his father and decided to use his lemonade stand to raise money for the medical bills.

Scientists have recorded volcanic activity beginning on Tuesday in Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, which lies southeast of Mexico City.

A tired Air Canada pilot mistakenly believed his jet was about to crash into another airline and forced a sudden dive of the plane, injuring several people on board, but the approaching aircraft turned out to be Venus.

Instead of spending time with family during his twilight years, 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made a deserted island in Okinawa's prefecture his retirement home.

Anthony Hensley, 37, kayaked out to the middle of a pond, never to return alive. After being attacked by a vicious swan, Hensley rolled off his kayak, into the water where he drowned on Sunday.

On Sunday, thousands of people commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. In order to memorialize the fallen victims of the ship, relatives, enthusiasts and well wishers attended ceremonies across the globe.

Not one person was reported murdered in El Salvador on Saturday, which is revered as the first murder-free day in almost here years for the country that is being hijacked by violent drug gangs.

The search and rescue for four yacht crew members who were racing around the Farallon Islands off Northern California during the Full Crew Farallones Race, has been suspended indefinitely by the Coast Guard.

Paul Pauly D DelVecchio Jr. of the MTV's hit show Jersey Shore was slapped with a lawsuit from his former talent agency.

Firefighters are at the scene of a raging fire in Central Park that began around 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

A perfectly rectangular structure was discovered on Mars after amateur space enthusiasts investigated NASA pictures of the Red Planet. Based on the picture, the Mars monolith bears a resemblance to the monoliths left on Earth and the moon in the Stanley Kubrick classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Police have discovered the body of man who killed a New Hampshire police chief, Michael Maloney, who was only about two weeks away from retirement, when he was killed during a drug bust on Thursday.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Former Michigan beauty queen and winner of Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, reached a plea deal in her drunken driving case on Wednesday.

Now that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, the FBI has replaced him with a man who was allegedly possessing child pornography, Eric Justin Toth.