Posted: 12:38 PM Since the landing of NASA's newest Mars rover, flight director David Oh's family has taken the unusual step of tagging along as he leaves Earth time behind and syncs his body clock with the red planet.

Posted: 5:24 PM A federal judge in Nashville has sentenced an Internal Revenue Service employee to two years in prison, calling his actions an egregious abuse of public trust.

Posted: 3:16 PM Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.

Updated: 3:05 PM More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast piece of the New World — modern-day Texas.

Posted: 1:03 PM Seaside Park can't burn the toxic plant or use chemicals because the patch overlooks Barnegat Bay. The town is considering an alternative.

Posted: 1:00 PM A dime made in 1873 has cost someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction. The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nev., during a one-day run of dimes.

Posted: 12:56 PM The survivors of a plane crash in central Idaho can prove just how close they came to death, with a seven-minute video documenting their harrowing experience, including the bloody aftermath.

Posted: 11:52 AM When MaryAnn Sahoury agreed to appear with her month-old daughter in a breast-feeding instructional video, she saw an opportunity to help women who had trouble getting their babies to nurse.

Updated: 5:53 PM On Friday, Liesa Hill obtained an order of protection against her physician husband, saying she saw him slip something into her coffee.

Posted: 5:21 PM Estine Boyce told police after the July 25 funeral that pieces 25-year-old Jerrika Boyce was wearing matched jewelry stolen from her home a month earlier.

Posted: 3:46 PM Like many spectators at the London Olympics, Stewart was watching with perplexed pleasure Monday as Australia beat Greece in the men's preliminary play. She had never been to a water polo game before.

Posted: 2:23 PM Police Officer Seneca Shield said he told Allen Troy Brooks if he cooperated, he would receive just a citation. But Brooks denied making the calls and claimed he didn't have a telephone.

Posted: 11:50 AM The cute, speckled creature scampered into the woods after it was released Thursday by its beaming, burly rescuers.

Posted: 11:48 AM A camera lost in a creek in New York's Adirondacks for three years is being returned thanks to clever detective work by a Vermont man who studied pictures on its memory card.

Posted: 11:46 AM Officials have been trying to find the person who has a key to shut of a fire alarm that has blared for over 12 hours at a Pittsburgh-area public housing complex.

Posted: 1:40 AM Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

Posted: 3:34 PM About 120 felines populate the sidewalks and grass, lounge in the trees and shelter behind the grates of at the Church of the Miraculous Virgin, where they are fed by devoted volunteers.

Posted: 8:08 AM Summer vacation has been anything but routine for a New York City social studies teacher who lives in northern New Jersey.

Posted: 5:17 AM A seal that would normally live in waters around the Aleutian Islands and California has shown up thousands of miles away on a beach in Hawaii, officials said Wednesday.

Updated: 5:07 AM The French town of Chamonix, deep in the shadow of Mont Blanc, has always embraced danger.

Updated: 12:49 PM An Anderson County deputy, who knew Haney's driving license had been suspended, saw him on a John Deere riding mower on the shoulder of a road in Oak Ridge in August 2010.

Posted: 5:42 AM It was December 1979 when Emery Lucier learned the concert he was eagerly awaiting in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who had been canceled over safety concerns.

Posted: 5:28 AM Mysterious crop circles have appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field but area farmers preparing for the summer's harvest find the distraction more amusing than alarming.

Posted: 5:26 AM They got hitched while still in their teens, divorced 20 years and four children later, and are getting remarried after nearly a half-century apart.

Posted: 5:24 AM The real estate listing reads like a Wild West exhibit: An old gold mine, a geyser, and a supposed hideout of famed outlaws.