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The detective who swapped real life drama for role as a TV cop

A 44-year-old Illinois firefighter was killed this week after a family dog that she had recently adopted suddenly attacked her at her home. Dawn Brown, a full-time firefighter for the Bristol-Kendall Fire Department and ...

Researchers at a Rice University lab are researching technology that that could potentially stop a 9-millimeter bullet and seal the entryway behind it — an advance that may have huge implications for ballistic pro...

5-Hour Energy Founder Manoj Bhargava poses with his Products Today, it's 5-Hour Energy drinks which are under investigation for links to  deaths - 13 of them - and severe reactions. Last month, I reported on the FDA's...

Nicole Westbrook is like Rebecca Black without the talent, and "It's Thanksgiving" is like "Friday" without the chart-topping. Westbrook performed live on Access Hollywood and, oof, it was a thing that happened. Warning:...

VideoPublic transport view on Nokia Here Maps As soon as Here Maps is available for iOS, hopefully in a couple weeks, I'm switching! There's really hardly any competition anyway. Google Maps on the iPhone is gone. Yes, t...

Frederick W Humphries II unmasked as investigator who was banned from case because of relationship with Jill Kelley The FBI agent who set in motion the investigation that brought down David Petraeus as CIA director, but ...

Ahmed al-Jabari's assassination in missile strike marks 'start of broader operation' that may involve ground troops, says Israel Israel launched a military operation to eliminate militants and weapon sites in the Gaza St...

LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC agreed to pay 185,000 pounds ($295,000) on Thursday to a former treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party wrongly accused of child sex abuse as a result of one of its reports.

Two weeks before his resignation as CIA Director, David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, both attended an event honoring one of Petreaus' predecessors, sources tell NBC News.

The Walking Dead is AMC’s engaging, bloody horror show that sends chills up the spines of the living. But before it was must-watch TV, it was a critically acclaimed comic book. And one person has acclaimed it more...

VideoTime to answer another question from the mailbox. This one relates to Android and iOS apps, and how to tell if they are safe to install or not. I keep reading about malware in the Android app store, and iOS apps tha...

First there was a feint. In the hours before waves of warplanes and drones began firing into the Gaza Strip, Israel's civilian and military leaders had pretended great interest in a border 200 miles to the north.

Skeletons, skulls and artists obsessed with death

Curiosity found shiny objects embedded in Maritan soil leading them to believe these objects are native to the planet.

Polling stations report as few as 5% coming to cast their votes as lack of publicity and November weather have their effect Turnout in the elections for police and crime commissioners was heading for a record low for a n...

At Ross -- photo by Kai Petainen If you could listen to a stock pitch from a grad student, what would they say?  In particular, what will they say about Ford, Panera, Moody's, Micron Technology, Western Union and the ...

Occupy Wall Street alumni have hatched a new plan: Raise money and then bail people out of debt. The campaign, called Rolling Jubilee, kicks off Thursday night with a live-streaming telethon broadcast on the Jubilee's we...

Man detained in connection with unrest outside the US embassy in Tunis dies after a 57-day hunger strike.

Fox News is distorting Sen. John Kerry's record in an attempt to discredit his possible nomination as Defense secretary. But Fox's criticism is based on the misleading and false claims of a disgraced 2004 Swift Boat camp...

A Black Friday shopper checks out the store flyer as she waits in a long line of shoppers to get into Toys-R-Us for Black Friday to take advantage of deeply discounted prices at the Toys-R-Us store at the Fair Lakes Shop...

Parents in Beaverton, Ore. are asking the school board to tax them more. One year after Beaverton voters rejected a local option levy that would have raised $14 million for schools, 344 school positions have been axed am...