Johnny Fratto has died after a battle with lung cancer, TMZ reports. He was 61. Johnny Fratto passed away peacefully at 12:06 a.m. surrounded by family. His wife Ivanka first confirmed his passing today. “Howard Stern Show” regular was the son of famous mob boss Louis Fratto, a major shot caller in Chicago, Illinois and Iowa in the ’30s, ’40s, …

Scientists have discovered a strong relationship between global and local climate change and a mountain’s internal tectonic plate shifts and topographic changes. Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range – located along the Pacific coastal region of North America – the way a mountain range moves and behaves topographically can …

Toronto police have released security camera images of a woman who allegedly posed as a nurse and stole cash from a retirement home resident Monday, Nov. 2. On Monday November 2, just before 2:00 p.m., a woman dressed in scrubs walked into a retirement residence in the Avenue Road and Eglinton Avenue West area.

Advanced genomic tools being developed at the University of British Columbia will enable beekeepers to breed a made-for-Canada honeybee better able to resist pests and disease, according to molecular biologist Leonard Foster. Foster and co-leader Amro Zayed of York University will analyze the genetics of 1,000 bee colonies from across the country looking for a dozen traits that help western …

Micah Speir, GarbageMan Hailed as ‘Hero’ After Returning $12K in Lost Checks to School. KOMO-TV in Seattle reports that Waste Management employee Micah Speir was picking up scattered trash next to some bins when he found a number of checks made out to Lawson Elementary School.

Eddie Murphy is preparing to become a father for the ninth time at the age of 54. The Oscar-nominated actor has five children – Bria, Myles, Shayne, Zola and Bella – ranging in age from 26 to 13, with his ex-wife Nicole Murphy, whom he divorced in 2006 after 22 years of marriage.

One of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies will slash its workforce. Vancouver-based Telus will cut 1,500 positions to save an estimated $125 million per year. “While TELUS is one of the largest and most important infrastructure investors in Canada and has established a track record for leveraging these capital decisions, the generational investments we make also come with parallel investments in …

Mars’ atmosphere is slowly leaking out into the cosmos, according to new data gathered from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. The cause of this great escape is our Sun; solar winds from the star constantly slam into Mars and strip away the atmosphere’s outer layers. Measurements from Nasa’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission show that the atmosphere was ripped away …

Dallas-Based Auction House Sells Signed Abraham Lincoln Document For $2.2M. Lincoln wrote and signed the text for Linton Usher, son of his interior secretary John Usher, in March 1865 in a book that includes dozens of autographs from famous 19th century figures. It sold to an anonymous collector for $2,213,000 — more than double its pre-sale estimate of $1 million, …

A Georgia state trooper has gone out of his way to help four children whose parents died in a car crash, WSB-TV reports. Trooper Nathan Bradley was sent to retrieve Justin, Amaya, Damien and Travion, ages six to 13, from their home and tell them their parents, Donald and Crystal Howard, had died in a car crash. The Howards had …

Kathleen Kane has released hundreds of sexually explicit or crude emails that had been sent or received by current or former public officials. Pennsylvania Attorney General was thrown into the middle of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal on Thursday, testifying in a closed-door hearing on her knowledge of potential grand jury leaks.