It was a close call Thursday night for passengers and crew on a US Airways flight bound for Florida. They were forced to evacuate after a major malfunction during takeoff around 6:30 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport. Investigators are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong. But airport officials say the pilot reported a blown tire and aborted the …

Three young women have been arrested and charged for punching a bus driver, pulling out chunks of her hair and smashing her glasses in Vancouver on Tuesday afternoon. The “vicious, unprovoked” attack occurred on a westbound bus near Broadway and Fraser, according to Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan. The women, along with three men, boarded the bus without paying, sat …

Archaeologists have rediscovered nine Dead Sea Scrolls in an Israeli storeroom, that had been left unopened and forgotten for 60 years. The find includes tiny fragments of text that were found inside phylacteries, miniature leather cases that contain verses from the Torah and are bound to the head of observant Jews during weekday morning prayers

Amy and Matt Roloff, stars of the TLC series, Little People, Big World, announced on Wednesday that they were separating, but it may not necessarily be over for good. Amy Roloff tweeted that she’s hopeful that they’ll be able to work through their problems.

A Louisiana man has found a 2.89 carat white diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Park Interpreter Margi Jenks released the following statement:

After wide public outcry over the social networking sites the small ailing boy has been made available the required drug by the company. Chimerix will be experimenting the drug to the 7-year-old Virginia boy and undertaking a huge operational burden. However, the small and unprofitable biotechnology company said the experiment will only be on one patient, the young boy, and …

True Detective went out in style on Sunday night as the first season of the critically acclaimed show came to thrilling and emotional end. The season finale was also a ratings winner for HBO, bringing in a season high 3.5 million viewers for the network, and an average of 11 million tuned in each week when taking into account HBO …

While Better Call Saul has already snared Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and anyone who can’t shake the itch for one more hit of Breaking Bad, even in less pure form, Dean Norris, for one, is trying to go clean. The erstwhile Hank Schrader told the Associated Press he doesn’t want to return to the role that made him famous, as …

Irish heartthrob Liam Neeson reveals that he and late wife Natasha Richardson had a pact to “pull the plug” if either fell into a vegetative state. Neeson made the admission in an exclusive interview with Anderson Cooper to be aired Sunday on 60 Minutes. The star of Taken and the new thriller Non-Stop has spoken little of the ski accident …

So-called death stars in the Orion Nebula wreak havoc on developing planets. These highly luminous O-type stars, “which are really monsters compared to our Sun, emit tremendous amounts of ultraviolet radiation and this can play havoc during the development of young planetary systems,” said Rita Mann in a statement. Mann, an astronomer with Canada’s National Research Council, was the lead …

Traditional sports are plagued by all kinds of controversies – doping, personal player scandals and match fixing cause outrage, but are expected. It appears that eSports is reaching that point, too, as a match fixing scandal was revealed at the highest levels of play. Unfortunately, it also led a player to try to take his own life.