A 79-year old former bull rider in League City, Texas, proved that age was only a number when he knocked out a home intruder who was apparently high on bath salts. League City Police Department Sgt. Tamara Spencer told ABC News that Ervin Brittnacher "was just about as cool as he could be" after an agitated man came to his front door with a gun and tried to break into his home at 5:45 a.m. Monday morning.
The sport is now chasing a new group of fans who flock to the likes of NASCAR races.
A judge in Utah has ordered a couple to return their adopted toddler to her biological father after it was revealed that the little girl's birth mother gave up the child without the father's knowledge or permission. The couple does not want to give up the girl and plans to appeal.
Kipinga Muanza Kalala, 37, was crossing three lanes of traffic with her daughter, Angela, and her four year old twin sons, Jack and Vic, when she was hit and subsequently trapped beneath a Kia Rio with her daughter, according to the Aurora Police Department.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is MIA. Sort of. The governor, who is best known for championing the state’s controversial immigration law, is currently taking a week-long work trip out-of-state, but her office has refused to disclose where she is going. The mysterious trip, which was...
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It seems that the future king or queen of England has dibs on the coolest aunt and uncle in town.
With the palace's announcement of Kate's pregnancy, Kate's sister, Pippa Middleton, and Prince Harry are poised to be an aunt and uncle, respectively, for the first time.
Radio waves in Earth's radiation belts mimic chirps of 'alien birds,' spacecraft capture sound
Anne Hathaway grins on the latest issue of Glamour, beaming in a pair of hot pants and a tank top. But in an interview with the magazine, the “Les Mis” star revealed that her obsession with being thin is a source of “shame” and said...
With officials at the Centers for Disease Control saying it’s gearing up to be a bad flu season, several North Carolina hospitals are taking no chances and requiring that all employees either get a flu shot or be fired. This past summer, officials at First...
This weekend the U.S. Border
Patrol located the father of the 11-year-old girl who was removed by her mother from Phoenix Children's Hospital with a catheter still in her heart. But he has denied playing any role in taking the cancer-stricken girl from her sickbed.Read more: Dad of Girl Missing From Cancer Ward Located, Denies Role
Criticism of Dutch fictional holiday figure "Black Pete" grows amid immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas appeared the Senate floor in a wheelchair today, just six days after he was released from the hospital, to make a last minute appeal for senators to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons With...
Police say the Kansas City Chiefs had been providing counseling to linebacker Jovan Belcher before he killed his girlfriend and then shot himself to death in front of his coaches at the team's practice facility. 
When it comes to giving birth, Kate Middleton will likely follow the example of Princess Diana, who bucked the royal tradition of home births in favor of welcoming her sons into the world at a hospital.
Read more: Like Diana, Kate Middleton Expected to Skip Palace Birth
Enquiring employee minds want to know: How will holiday parties this year compare to last? Will it be oyster shooters, a 15-piece band and complimentary fur coats for the ladies---or pretzels, stale beer, Jujubes, and a pat on the back? For that matter, will there even be a party? A November survey of 105 companies by executive search firm Battalia Winston found the number of companies planning to throw a party this year is up 74 percent from last. 91 percent of respondents said they intended...
David Petraeus running for president, with Fox News chief Roger Ailes as his campaign manager and News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch “bankrolling” the whole operation. That, as first reported in today’s Washington Post story by Bob Woodward, was the broad strokes of an offer delivered by...Read more: Petraeus Turned Down Fox News Presidential Run 'Deal'
The doctor who rushed to the aid of a man thrown in front of a New York City subway train tried to console his family today by saying he was a "brave man" trying to protect other riders and that strangers tried to help the man in his last moments.
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