April is autism awareness month. Four separate walks statewide attracted 500 people to help educate the community on this disorder. Spanning from Presque Isle, to Bangor, to Farmington and Biddeford; locals gathered to share their stories. The 12th annual statewide walk is hosted by the Autism Society of Maine. The walks help raise money for events throughout the year, like …

Babies might not be able to walk very well, but luckily Houstonians are walking for them. More than 40,000 people attended the 43rd annual Houston March for Babies at the University of Houston Saturday morning The four-mile walk benefits the March of Dimes, which aims at helping all moms have healthy, full-term pregnancies.

Most of us use lip balm to keep our lips smooth when the weather is dry. But it seems some teens may be using one brand for something else: getting high. They are taking Burt’s Bees, which is made with beeswax and peppermint oil, and rubbing it on their eyelids to add to the experience of getting drunk or high. …

There was a serious crash involving a Vancouver Police wagon this morning. Police say the wagon was traveling north on Gore Street when it was struck in the intersection by a car traveling west on Hastings Street.

French media report four police officers are in custody in connection with the alleged rape of a Canadian woman at the Paris police headquarters. Published reports say the 34-year-old Toronto woman is the daughter of a Canadian police officer and may herself be a police officer too. The reports allege the woman met with the officers at a pub Tuesday …

Toronto police have charged two men and two youths in connection with alleged multiple sexual assaults on a four-year-old girl over the span of several years.

Many celebrities are invited to proms every spring. Some accept. Few end up actually going. ESPN’s Michelle Beadle deserves credit. The SportsNation host was invited to prom by Jack Jablonski, a former Minnesota high school hockey player who was paralyzed from the chest down after suffering a hit during a game, last month. Today, she and Jack are off to …

A tornado system ripped through the central and southern United States on Sunday, leaving at least 17 dead in a violent start to this year’s storm season, officials said. An Arkansas state agency reported that 16 deaths have been confirmed in that state. A separate tornado from the same storm system killed one person in Oklahoma.

The last letter known to have been written on board the Titanic sold at auction in Britain for £119,000 ($200,000) on Saturday. The letter was written by second class passenger Esther Hart just hours before the doomed ocean liner sank. The price tag paid by an unknown bidder breaks the previous record for a Titanic-related letter, which had stood at …

A teenager employed at an Italian restaurant upstate severed his arm while cleaning an industrial pasta maker. According to the AP, 17-year-old Brett Bouchard was cleaning the machine at Violi’s Restaurant on Thursday evening when his right arm became caught and was severed at the elbow.

Soon, the California condor will soar throughout it’s native homeland. The northern California-based Yurok Tribe was recently granted permission to release condors bred in captivity back into their native lands of the Redwood Coast, according to The Associated Press (AP). Tribal biologist Chris West said that the first releases of the birds could come in the next one to three …