Investigators believe a Clemmons woman was posting to Facebook seconds before she crossed the centerline and hit a truck head-on Thursday morning. Courtney Ann Sanford, 32, died in the wreck. The driver of the truck was not injured.

Federal wildlife officials are granting Endangered Species Act protections to three species of Sierra Nevada amphibians. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that two types of yellow-legged frog are endangered species, and that the Yosemite toad is threatened.

New research has found a direct link between sun holidays and the massive rise in skin cancer cases in Ireland in recent years. The figures from the National Cancer Registry of Ireland have been published in the British Journal of Dermatology.

Being well-endowed may have many upsides, however researchers have found it has one major drawback – that your wife is more likely to cheat. A study published in the journal PLOS One has found that men with larger penises are more likely to be cuckolded by their wives. Led by researchers from the US and Kenya, the researchers looked at …

The pit bull that bit a baby girl’s face in west Ottawa yesterday is in bylaw department custody and on a list to be euthanized, police say. The attack took place in Draffin Court in the Centrepointe neighbourhood of Ottawa at about 9:10 a.m. ET and the baby girl is described as having “multiple severe lacerations” to her face. She’s …

A suicidal mother stabbed her child to death at a park near Livermore, Saturday afternoon. Livermore police the 23-year-old woman on suspicion of murder. She is being held without bail. Authorities said the woman killed the child after first trying to kill herself.

Everywhere you look, spring is in full swing. The grass is green, trees and flowering plants are blooming, and, over the last few days at least, there’s been a thin yellow film on almost every outdoor surface. For allergy sufferers, it’s among the worst times of the year. “This is our busy time of the year,” said Dr. Karthik Krishnan, …

A new research programme aims to understand 3D vision in the praying mantis, the only invertebrate known to have this ability, and compare it with vision in humans. Analysing how mantises see in three dimensions could give us clues about how 3D vision evolved and lead to novel approaches in implementing 3D recognition and depth perception in computer vision and …

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed earlier this week that it paid a private company to conduct surveillance flights for nine days in 2012 over the Compton area of southeast Los Angeles, the Los Angeles NBC News affiliate reports. As has become the custom of law enforcement officials forced to justify their violation of the Fourth Amendment, a spokesman …

Columbus Day is a thing of the past for one American city. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to change the name of the long-recognized October holiday. Many in the American Indian community consider Columbus Day controversial. From now on the day will be called Indigenous Peoples Day. American Indian leaders Clyde Bellecourt and Bill Means say the move is …

Officials have announced the large sand dune that trapped a 6-year-old boy under 11 feet of sand last summer will remain closed this summer and perhaps into the fall while scientists investigate the its safety, our news partner WNDU reported. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s superintendent, Garry Traynham, said the decision was made after more holes were found in the Mount …