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Heidi Jones is hardly the first TV weatherman (or weatherwoman) to run afoul of the law.

Ron Paul has at least one celebrity firmly in his camp: singer Barry Manilow.

Reports that former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin and former NBA basketball star Glen Rice had a one-time fling continued to dominate the headlines and social media Web sites on Friday.

A team of Florida scientists have discovered fossil of a giant crocodile from a Colombian coal mine.

Two bioethics professors have said that they are willing to pay $11,000 for medical records that could prove that the story Michele Bachmann told about the toxicity of HPV vaccine, after Monday night's GOP presidential debate, is true.

With a $10 million pot on the table, Justin Rose went all in on Thursday, flashing a hot hand with an eight-under-par 63 to grab the first round lead at the BMW Championship.

A former art dealer was arrested in Florida on Thursday on accusations he sold a Los Angeles collector forged paintings he claimed were by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko and others, federal prosecutors said.

Casey Anthony has been ordered to pay a sum of more than $97,000 to law enforcement agencies on Thursday, as compensation for their efforts to find the missing child. She was acquitted of the murder charges of her two-year-old daughter.

It will be No. 1 vs. No. 5 on Saturday

Casey Anthony, who is now broke and unemployed, is in deep trouble as she was ordered Thursday to pay almost $100,000 to reimburse the authority who searched massively for Casey's daughter Caylee during five months in 2008.

The former Florida star is waiting for his turn.

Florida scientists discover ancient, giant crocodile.

Florida has the worst reptile problem in the world. From 1863 through 2010, 137 non-native amphibian and reptile species were introduced to the state.

Glen Rice thought Sarah Palin was a sweetheart and respectful, according to a new book that alleges the former basketball player and the former Alaskan governor had a one-time fling.

The college football world has been dominated by conference realignment talk over the past month, including the most recent talks of No. 1 Oklahoma and Oklahoma State heading to the Pac-12. Let's avoid some of the realignment talk and take a look at this weekend's college football action.

It's OK we are just on a flight simulator, yelled a man as he attempted to open the emergency door of a Thomson Airlines flight at 36,000ft in the air.

The Milwaukee Brewers, leaders of the NL Central, have to address a number of distractions, particularly that their slugger Prince Fielder believes this year is his last with the team.

The unemployment rate for college graduates (that is, those holding at least a Bachelor’s degree) is only 4.3 percent.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

The father of Casey Anthony said in a TV interview that aired on Wednesday he believes his daughter or someone with her drugged his 2-year-old granddaughter and caused the girl's death.

Mixed emotions and contradicting views and statements on Caylee's death came by as Casey Anthony's parents were interviewed by Phil McGraw at the Dr. Phil show.