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10 Things to Know for Tuesday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday: 1. FOUND ALIVE, A DECADE AFTER DISAPPEARANCE Three women who went missing are found in a Cleveland home, and three brothers were arrested. "I'm free," one of the women told a 911 dispatcher. ...
East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas
Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a ...
Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes
Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up announced Tuesday won't be released to consumers and businesses until later this year. The changes, part of a software ...
Child abuse ad has hidden message aimed at children
The ad shows adults a message about child abuse, but kids see a hotline to call if anyone hurts them.
The Onion apparently hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
The parody news site appears to have been the target of a Twitter hack by the same group that hacked the Associated Press last month.
Get up to speed on the Jodi Arias trial before verdict
A verdict in the murder trial against Jodi Arias is expected this week. Arias could face the death penalty for the murder of her boyfriend in 2008.
Dog's water bowl catches house on fire
So you think your day was crazy? Well at least your dog’s water bowl didn’t catch your house on fire. That’s right: An impressive case of wrong place at the wrong time. A North California Couple put their dog’s bowl in just the right spot to refract the sun’s light ...
FDA wants cancer warnings on tanning beds
Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has regulated tanning beds and sun lamps for over 30 years, but for the first time ...
Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library
While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life. A private U.S. ...
Jason Collins denies he is seeking book deal
Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is disputing reports from publishing insiders who say he is shopping a book deal. Officials at three publishing houses told The Associated Press on Monday that they had been contacted about a planned memoir by Collins, the first ...
APNewsBreak: Harry to visit storm-wrecked NJ town
The mayor of a storm-wrecked New Jersey shore town says England's Prince Harry will visit next week before heading to a news conference elsewhere in the state. Mantoloking (mahn-toh-LOH'-king) Mayor George Nebel (NEE'-buhl) says one of the heirs to the British throne will take a short walk along the town's ...
YouTube said set to soon launch pay channels
YouTube is set to announce within a few weeks a series of channels that will require payment, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The content on the new pay channels will be in addition to the millions of videos viewers watch for free on YouTube. It's not clear ...
Where notorious criminals have been buried
Whether it's a genocidal dictator or a gunman behind a mass shooting, debate often flares over where the notorious should be laid to rest. Concerns about gravesite vandalism, possible backlash from the public and some sites becoming shrines often lead to burials cloaked in secrecy. In Massachusetts, controversy is surrounding ...
School with no tests? Here's how the kids turned out
A Canadian photographer found members of the inaugural class of a school with no tests or homework to see the effect that education had.
Police: Woman arrested for DUI was celebrating end of earlier DUI
Erin James of Illinois is under arrest for driving under the influence for the second time in two years. In fact, Riverside Police say she was out celebrating the return of her driver's license when she was pulled over for speeding and handed the second DUI. That's not irony, that's ...
Meet the NBA writer who didn't vote Lebron for MVP
Lebron James won the NBA MVP award, but was one vote shy of being the first unanimous winner.
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