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Portland police got a very strange call Sunday: A family was cowering in a bedroom after their 22-pound Himalayan cat went on the rampage, the Oregonian reports.

When John Harrison received a telephone call telling him his partner Anne Saville had died he headed to the hospital to say a heartbreaking goodbye.

Martha Baird, a 61-year-old psychiatric nurse from Leawood, works in Kansas City's Sudanese refugee community to heal mental health issues among the women.

Boeing has made no public comment about Saturday's disappearance of a Malaysia Air 777, but aviation analysts tell KOMO News the model's safety record is unimpeachable.

An Oklahoma man says he wound up stuck in a storm drain for two days because he was chasing after a $20 bill.

The small town of Hampton, Fla., has caught the attention of state lawmakers - who want to see it dissolved.

The small town of Hampton, Fla., has caught the attention of state lawmakers - who want to see it dissolved.

A 51-year-old woman was hospitalized after being stung about 1,000 times during a bee attack in a Southern California neighborhood.

An Oklahoma man says he wound up stuck in a storm drain for two days because he was chasing after a $20 bill.

That's right: a new study by researchers from Purdue University showed that rather than being courteous, you are actually doing harm to a man's self-esteem and self-confidence by holding the door open for him.

Kyle Trevor Flack, 28, is charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, attempted rape and criminal possession of a firearm in the deaths of four people, including a young Olathe mother and her 18-month-old daughter, last spring at a farm outside of Ottawa, Kan.

A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air control and went missing more than a hour after it took off in the early hours of Saturday, March 8, 2014.

The shark was officially jumped when billionaire Mark Cuban - yeah, he of Shark Tank fame - compared Bitcoin to buying and selling baseball cards.

Don't call them hot dogs and don't ask for ketchup. Those are the cardinal rules at Olneyville New York System, arguably the best-known Rhode Island spot for one of the state's signature dishes: hot wieners.

When Samira Mbotizafy Frasch arrived in Tallahassee four years ago from France, she told her new friends about a glamorous past where she modeled for a top agency in Paris and attended the prestigious University of Paris-Sud, known for its math studies.

's president was overthrown, the cradle of the uprising is a surreal place as children play alongside diehard protesters still dressed in combat gear.

After becoming international sensations two weeks ago when the judges ran out of words, Kush and Sophia Hoffman met again Saturday for a chance to go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The investigation into the death of a woman at her house in an upscale enclave of Tallahassee has dragged on for two weeks with no answers.

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Shortly after having a steak purchased at a local Walmart, 24-year-old Ronnie Morales felt ill, according to multiple reports.