Bary Alyssa Johnson
A new drug called “flakka” has users in south Florida and elsewhere in the United States flocking to street corners for a taste, according to drug abuse officials. The lethal synthetic compound is causing a big stir among users, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1990s.
An auction house in Boston is auctioning off nearly 300 items related to the life and times of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, including a gold wedding ring belonging to Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald.
As of the most recent update from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), issued at 8:00 a.m. PST, Hurricane Raymond, a category three hurricane, is currently stationary just south of Mexico.
A six-foot-long alligator made a spectacle at a Florida WalMart on Sunday night.
A massive asteroid made an unsettlingly close approach toward Earth this month and although it sailed by and left our planet unscathed, there's a small chance of a collision the next time it approaches, approximately 19 years from now.
This weekend, stargazers will be treated to a number of celestial events, including the Hunter’s Moon, a lunar eclipse and the Orionid Peaks meteor shower.
With the New York City mayoral election looming closer, both candidates are campaigning hard. This week Republican Joe Lhota took a harsh shot at his opponent Bill de Blasio with his newest television ad.
Students in New York City will likely be getting two extra days off during the school year to honor two major Muslim holidays, if the city's next new mayor has his say.
Brazil’s largest and most notorious criminal gang has reportedly threatened terrorist attacks at the upcoming World Cup, scheduled to take place in summer of 2014. The event has since been dubbed the “World Cup of Terror.”
As of Wednesday Washington became the second state in the country to legalize sales of marijuana for recreational use, following Colorado.
Felix Baumgartner, the Australian daredevil broke three world records in a free-fall jump from space one year ago. To celebrate the first anniversary of the death-defying feat, his sponsor Red Bull has released a new Point of View (POV) video showing the dizzying descent.
A flesh-eating drug called “krokodil” (pronounced crocodile) has grabbed media attention in the United States recently as more and more suspected cases are being reported throughout the country.
A law student at the University of California, Berkeley, who pleaded guilty to decapitating an exotic bird at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip was ordered to a six-month stint at a Nevada prison boot camp on Wednesday.
A New York woman who posed as a family member of one of the students killed during the Sandy Hook school shooting massacre in a scheme to scam money through the Internet was sentenced to eight months in prison on Tuesday.
South Korean officials have come up with a clever way to both respond to a recent boom in tourism and to make tourists feel safe and welcome in the country’s capital city, Seoul.
