Brad Matthews

Female elephant dies at the St. Louis Zoo after another elephant is startled by a small dog

A loose dog at the St. Louis Zoo startled a herd of elephants, distressing one female member so much that she collapsed and died.

October 19, 2023

Futuristic prototype Domino’s delivery car from the 1980s up at auction

A three-wheeled prototype Domino's delivery car from the 1980s, looking more like the space shuttle than a typical car, is going to auction in Las Vegas next month.

October 18, 2023

Magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattles Sacramento, San Francisco areas

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck around three miles southwest of Isleton, California, just before 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday.

October 18, 2023

Maryland highway agency cited over March car crash that killed six workers in a construction zone

The Maryland State Highway Administration was cited for not putting up signs around a construction zone on Interstate 695 where six workers died in a crash on March 22.

October 18, 2023

Exotic African wild cat on the loose in Decatur, Illinois

Animal control authorities in Decatur, Illinois, are on the prowl and looking for a serval, a species of exotic African wild cat, that escaped his owner's apartment.

October 18, 2023

Florida law enforcement says 1986 cold-case killing now solved

A nearly 37-year-old homicide in Florida has been solved and blamed on a now-deceased neighbor, the Polk County Sheriff's Office announced this week.

October 17, 2023

South Carolina man killed in freak tractor accident

A 76-year-old Blacksburg, South Carolina, man died after being caught between his tractor and an attachment.

October 17, 2023

Feds remove 21 now-extinct species from endangered list

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the federal Endangered Species Act due to their extinction.

October 17, 2023

‘Pepper X’ dethrones Carolina Reaper, breaks record to become world’s hottest pepper

"Pepper X," a new variety of pepper that will cause more pain than bear spray, has toppled the Carolina Reaper to become the world's hottest pepper, according to Guinness World Records.

October 17, 2023

Ferrari to begin accepting cryptocurrency as payment for its luxury sports cars

Italian carmaker Ferrari has begun accepting cryptocurrencies as payment for its luxury sports cars in America and plans to start accepting them in Europe as well.

October 14, 2023

Minnesota fisherman breaks 53-year-old state record for heaviest coho salmon

A Minnesota fisherman recently broke a record for heaviest coho salmon caught that had been standing since 1970.

October 14, 2023

Pair of Massachusetts drivers killed in early morning wrong way crash on Interstate 95

A pair of drivers in Massachusetts died at the scene of a crash Saturday morning after one of them drove southbound in the northbound lanes of U.S. Interstate 95.

October 14, 2023

Virginia fugitive Naseem Roulack escaped because guards were asleep, investigation finds

A Virginia Department of Corrections investigation found that escaped prisoner and fugitive, Naseem Roulack got away because his guards were asleep.

October 14, 2023

Brawl at an Illinois high school leads to 26 students being criminally charged, two as adults

A brawl at Alton High School in Madison County, Illinois, has led to 26 students being criminally charged, the Madison County State Attorney's Office announced on Facebook Friday.

October 14, 2023

Scientists say coin flips are not an exact 50/50 proposition

Coin flips, long thought to have exact 50/50 odds, are in fact weighted slightly toward one outcome, according to a new study by European researchers released this week.

October 13, 2023

Say goodbye to DVD and Blu-ray movies at Best Buy

Best Buy is getting out of the DVD and Blu-ray business in 2024, axing sales of the discs at both physical stores and online.

October 13, 2023

Body parts from an early 20th-century family mausoleum in Colorado stolen by grave robbers

Graver robbers have stolen body parts from a corpse in a crypt of a private family mausoleum in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

October 13, 2023

Brain-eating amoebas present in hot springs, Lake Mead National Recreation Area warns

Visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada are being warned against submerging themselves in the hot springs below the Hoover Dam due to the risk of infection by deadly brain-eating amoebas.

October 13, 2023

Grand Canyon National Park warns: ‘Love locks’ on fences hurt endangered condor

Grand Canyon National Park officials warned visitors to stop leaving padlocks, or "love locks," attached to fences because the discarded keys tossed in the canyon pose a risk to the critically endangered California condors that like to ingest them.

October 13, 2023

Metrobus to run overnight on some routes starting Dec. 17

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is slated to begin offering overnight bus service on some of its routes starting Dec. 17, the agency announced Thursday.

October 12, 2023