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With a breakaway layup at the overtime buzzer, Stephen F. Austin pulled off a shocker for the ages and did what no team outside the ACC had done in almost 20 years — topple mighty Duke at home.

A stranger hacked a Seattle couple’s baby monitor and used it to peer around their home remotely and tell the pair’s 3-year-old, “I love you,” the child’s mother said and NBC News reported. The parents’ concerns were aired Friday by NBC News affiliate KING TV, which identified the shaken mother and father by their first names only, Jo and John....

Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.

It was 50 years ago today, that The Beatles caused a traffic delay. And hundreds of fans of the Fab Four gathered Thursday at a crosswalk in London’s St. John’s Wood neighborhood immortalized on the “Abbey Road” album to recreate the cover photo half a century after it was taken. At 11:35 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1969, Iain Macmillan photographed...

Dr. John, the New Orleans singer and piano player who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said. He was 77. In a statement released through his publicist, the family said Dr. John, who was born Mac Rebennack, died “toward the break of day” of a heart attack.

Russian gay rights activists and cultural figures are criticizing the local distributor of a new movie about Elton John for cutting scenes in it depicting homosexual activity and drug use. The deletions became known last week after a Moscow screening of the film “Rocketman.” The Moscow movie theater Pioner, noted for its adventurous programming, said it would ask for an...

Russian gay rights activists and cultural figures are criticizing the local distributor of a new movie about Elton John for cutting scenes in it depicting homosexual activity and drug use. The deletions became known last week after a Moscow screening of the film “Rocketman.” The Moscow movie theater Pioner, noted for its adventurous programming, said it would ask for an...

When you think of adoptive parents, a single man is not the first thing to come to mind. But as the idea of what makes a family is constantly being reimagined, more men are building families on their own. They are single dads by choice and their choice is making a difference for many children.

A South Florida mother who has become a crusader against drunk and drugged driving since her daughter was killed by an impaired driver has a message for everyone this holiday season as drunk driving fatalities have spiked over the last few years.

There’s a growing number of backyard beekeepers across Florida. People are tending to beehives in an effort to bring back a dying breed.

A man suspected of trying to steal a Magna Carta from its display case at Salisbury Cathedral has been arrested after he was wrestled to the ground by cathedral employees, British authorities said Friday. Wiltshire Police said cathedral alarms sounded Thursday afternoon in the southwestern English city when a person armed with a hammer tried to smash the glass box...

The rooms inside the Forensic Biology Section at the Miami-Dade Police Department are some of the most sterile, most protected areas inside the police headquarter building.

The last time the midsection of the East Coast stared down a hurricane like this, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds. Hurricane Florence could inflict the hardest hurricane punch North Carolina has seen in more than 60 years, with rain and wind of more than 130 mph (209 kph). North Carolina...

Here’s where you can celebrate National Cheese Pizza Day with deals.

While Jennifer Garner was receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, with her parents and three children in attendance to support her, on the other side of town her soon-to-be ex-husband Ben Affleck was in need of help.

A former reality television show star is facing charges of fraud and identity theft after allegedly stealing and using a debit card from a man she allegedly visited for a prostitution date, authorities say.

More than 200 families across the country have gotten a heart-breaking call in the last few months since the FBI began using new fingerprint technology to resolve identity cases dating back to the 1970s....
Since launching the new effort in February, the FBI and local medical examiner offices have identified 204 bodies found between 1975 and the late 1990s. The cases...

Papa John’s added gluten-free pizza to the menu, but those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance shouldn’t order it, CNBC reported. The pizza chain on Monday said the new crust contains sorghum, teff, amaranth and quinoa and is made in a separate facility before being shipped to stores nationwide. But Papa John’s doesn’t recommend that diners with celiac disease or...

Jason Matthews is a retired CIA officer who now writes spy novels, focused on Russia. He was working on a book last year that ordinarily would seem a little far-fetched, but which proved too close to current events. “The plot line was an American presidential candidate who has a secret that’s so bad it would ensure his or her impeachment,...