The family of a police officer killed in a 'brutal' 1988 beating at the hands of a group of young men expressed outrage last month when they learned that one of the assailants, who served 11 years for the murder, was the head coach in a children's baseball league, The Chicago Tribune reported.

    Cardinals acquire Lackey from dealing Red Sox

    Nothing like a romantic lunch date to break up the workday! Jill Duggar took to Instagram yesterday to share a cute pic of her and husband Derick Dillard lunching at his job...

    Here's further proof that Kim Kardashian always looks flawless—with or without makeup. The 33-year-old beauty stepped out sporting a fresh face on Wednesday in Los Angeles,...

    On last Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian starts to drive others crazy with her constant desire to take selfies, making her sisters and mom wonder if she even...

    Apparently, pregnancy has given Scarlett Johansson a sweet tooth. The expectant actress, along with fiancĂ© Romain Dauriac attended a birthday bash on Sunday at The Beatrice Inn in...

    It's official. Kelly Rowland is expecting a baby boy! During an interview with FOX411, the pregnant singer accidentally spilled the beans on the sex of her...

    Why do you hate animals and parents so much, Disney?! WARNING: spoilers (duh) and very, very sad GIFs ahead. 1. Bambi's mother is killed by a hunter, Bambi Disney...

    On last Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian starts to drive others crazy with her constant desire to take selfies, making her sisters and mom wonder if she even...

    We don't like to throw around the phrase "perfect human" too often, because everyone is special and no one is perfect, but Morgan Stewart is literally a perfect human. She is...

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker John Boehner suffered a political setback on Thursday when he had to cancel a planned vote on legislation that would provide $659 million to help address an immigration crisis on the southwestern border with Mexico.

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - French telecoms company Iliad has made a surprise offer for T-Mobile US Inc , setting up a potential bidding war with rival suitor Sprint Corp , the U.S. mobile firm now controlled by Japan's Softbank .

    KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's resignation on Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army offensive against a separatist rebellion in the east and avert a national default on its debts.

    With RadioShack burning through cash, investors and credit rating agencies believe its days are numbered.

    Europe cranked up the pressure on Russia on Thursday by including the country's top two banks on a list of sanctions.

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is overhauling poultry plant inspections for the first time in more than 50 years, a move it says could result in 5,000 fewer foodborne illnesses each year....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid all the debates on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are also wondering whether driving cars after smoking marijuana is dangerous....

    NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. health officials are warning Americans not to travel to the three African countries hit by an outbreak of Ebola....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The final House-Senate compromise veterans' bill aims to alleviate delays many patients have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital administration and other senior VA executives. Congressional budget analysts put the cost of the bill at $16.3 billion over three years and estimate it will add $10 billion to...

    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history now has killed more than 700 people across West Africa....

    A report by the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy showed that the state's largest increase in raw numbers of overdose fatalities occurred in Fayette County last year.Click to Continue »

    CMA is partnering with iTunes to promote "CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock," the three-hour TV special that will air Aug. 5 on ABC.Starting this week, songs by CMA Fest performers will be featured on a specially created iTunes Radio station dedicated to CMA Fest. In addition, CMA Fest content and tune-in messaging will be featured throughout the iTunes store and on iTunes' social media accounts this week, leading up to the concert special, according to a news release.During Tuesday's…

    When Medhost President Craig Herrod was a little boy growing up in Houston, he wanted to be an astronaut — as almost all little boys growing up in Houston during the age of the space race did."The space center was on TV every day," Herrod said during a recent conversation with the Nashville Business Journ al. "Houston was the center of that, so it was really cool to want to be an astronaut."While the Texan never made it to space, he's now leading a Franklin-based company exploring a growing…

    A new state report shows more people continue to die from heroin overdoses in Kentucky.Click to Continue »

    Sixty-six percent of Missourians expect their home values to rise in the next year, and 47 percent say the values have risen during the last year.Other findings in a report from BMO Harris Bank:29 percent of Missourians said the value of their house had gone down in the last year. Only 6 percent believe the value of their home will decrease in the next year. 23 percent have delayed or ended homebuying plans because of market activity. 6 percent said they have sped up home buying because of recent…

    A hidden hazard lurks beneath many of the roughly 156,000 gas stations across the United States.The hazard is corrosion in parts of underground gas storage tanks -- corrosion that could result in failures, leaks and contamination of groundwater, a source of drinking water. In recent years, field inspectors in nine states have reported many rapidly corroding gas storage tank components such as sump pumps.

    A massive births and deaths database reveals that cultural figures have migrated to cities in the same way for centuries.

    There is epidemiological evidence that links type B coxsackie virus infection with heart disease, and research published on July 31 in PLOS Pathogens now suggests a mechanism by which early infection impairs the heart's ability to tolerate stress at later stages of life.

    Dr. Maximilian Schich, associate professor of arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, has brought together a team of network and complexity scientists to create and quantify a big picture of European and North American cultural history.

    A new study involving scientists from the University of Southampton has revealed how massive, meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs evolved into agile flying birds: they just kept shrinking and shrinking, for over 50 million years.

    Manu Ginobili will not play for Argentina at the FIBA World Cup because of a stress fracture in his right leg that has bothered the San Antonio Spurs guard since the playoffs.

    (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association is adding its @NBA social media identifier to its official game ball starting with the 2014-15 season in October. The Twitter handle will appear under the "Official Game Ball" wording, just to the left of the league's logo, the NBA said in a statement. The move makes the NBA the first professional sports league to put its social media handle on the official game ball of that respective sport, according to the league.

    Price interest rises as Rays more likely to deal

    Baltimore Ravens Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice, who has been suspended by the National Football League without pay for the first two games of the 2014 season for hitting his wife, apologized to her on Thursday and vowed to speak out against domestic violence. The NFL ordered the suspension last week, determining that Rice had violated the league's conduct policy when he was arrested in February following a fight with his then-fiancee Janay Palmer. "I am going to go out there and be ambassador against domestic violence to make sure that someone doesn't have to go through what I went through and what me and my wife went through," Rice said in his first public remarks since the NFL decided to suspend him.Rice said he had failed to apologize to his wife during his last emotional public appearance, which he called awkward.

    Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentina NBA star guard Manu Ginobili has been refused permission to play at the world championships by the San Antonio Spurs, the Argentine basketball federation (CABB) claimed Thursday.

    SAP is struggling to convince some customers that a pricier support service it introduced several years ago provides additional value compared to the standard support option.“SAP still has a great deal of persuading to do—even though the figures have improved,” said DSAG (German-speaking SAP User Group), in a news release this week. The group, which counts more than 50,000 members in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, surveyed 389 members in April and May.Some 42 percent of respondents “don’t believe [Enterprise Support] adds very much value, if any,” DSAG said. Another 40 percent declined to answer the question at all.However, the numbers are an improvement over a similar survey DSAG conducted last year, when almost three-fourths of respondents said Enterprise Support provided little or no added value.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    The number of government requests worldwide seeking Twitter users’ data, or the removal of content, increased during the first half of 2014.There were 2,058 total requests to Twitter for user account information, typically connected to criminal investigations, during the first six months of 2014, a 46 percent increase from the second half of 2013, according to the company’s biannual transparency report, released Thursday.The majority of the account information requests—1,257—came from the U.S. government.There were 432 requests to remove content, up 14 percent, which are generally made due to content that’s illegal or defamatory in different countries.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter says government requests for user data grew sharply in the past six months as more countries asked for a greater amount of information about users....

    NASA announced today that its next Mars rover will have advanced cameras, more sophisticated lasers, and the ability to see underground as it explores the Red Planet starting in 2020.

    Microsoft updated its three Office for iPad apps—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—with new features including PDF exporting, presentation views, and even a new flick gesture.The three apps have been officially upgraded to version 1.1 inside the Apple App Store. Microsoft announced Office for iPad in March, where the elegant port of Microsoft's office suite has so far received (mostly) glowing reviews. "Millions" of users have downloaded the apps, according a blog post by Microsoft's Office team on Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The fees that banks charge debit-card users who overdraw their accounts usually cost more than the items being bought.

    Action on a cigarette sales tax in Philadelphia, to provide money so schools have enough money to open in September, has stalled.

    Police are asking for the public's help in their search for the person who opened fire on a SUV in North Philadelphia on Wednesday.

    Decades after a woman challenged Donald Trump in court and won the right to keep her home, an Atlantic City woman decided to put it up for auction.

    By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The unions representing the orchestra and chorus of New York's Metropolitan Opera agreed to have a federal mediator join negotiations with management on Thursday in the final hours before a deadline for a threatened lockout. The Met said in a statement that management planned to negotiate into the night with its three largest unions on Thursday, the last day of the current contract.

    ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) -- Two weeks after a missile brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, an international team of investigators Thursday reached a wreckage site in eastern Ukraine that remains bitterly contested between government forces and pro-Russia separatist rebels....

    Israel has stepped up its campaign in Gaza to eliminate Hamas’s ability to launch rockets.

    Two senior U.S. officials are wrapping up a dayslong visit to India to pitch a fresh start in a strained partnership with the new government in New Delhi.

    Authorities in northern Mali say a former jihadist leader in the town of Gao has been arrested by French military forces.

    Norway's intelligence service says the Scandinavian country no longer faces an imminent terror threat from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.