Deen Castronovo has confirmed that he was fired from the band in the wake of his arrest. Deen Castronovo was arrested in June for an assault against his then fiance at his Salem, OR home. Originally charged with assault, coercion and menacing, he had rape, sexual abuse and unlawful use of a weapon added after police completed their investigation. He …

Pakistani rescuers have pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of a collapsed factory and are searching for dozens of others believed still trapped in a disaster that has killed at least 20. The reasons for the collapse are unclear but reports suggest the factory’s owner, who was adding an extra floor, may had ignored advice to stop construction …

When psychiatrist Connie Guille, M.D., was in the first year of her residency, she saw the toll that a medical internship could take with its long hours, high expectations and emotional ups and downs. “Sadly, one of my co-interns attempted suicide during our internship year,” Guille said. She decided to try to find a way to reduce interns’ risk of …

Bali airport will remain closed until Friday due to ash erupting from a nearby volcano, Indonesian officials said, grounding hundreds of flights for a second consecutive day. Mount Rinjani blasted ash and debris almost 11,500 feet into the air on Wednesday, according to a spokesman from the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The eruption shut down flights at the Ngurah Rai …

Council’s transportation committee on Wednesday settled on a new policy that restricts the time roadside memorials can stay up. The committee agreed to a six-month window for memorials, such as ghost bikes and crosses, to remain on public property. The timeframe was extended past the staff-recommended three months. Tina Belanger’s voice shook as she remembered her friend Meg Dussault at …

Hawaii’s first rocket launch turned into a disaster Tuesday night when the U.S. Air Force’s experimental Super Strypi rocket failed shortly after liftoff. “The ORS-4 mission on an experimental Super Strypi launch vehicle failed in mid-flight shortly after liftoff at 5:45 p.m.,” the Air Force said, in a statement Tuesday night The 55-foot “Super Strypi” rocket was launched as part …

Climate change severely threatens food security, which could then subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by the year 2080. “Increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather, rising temperatures and sea levels, as well as floods and droughts have a significant impact on the right to food,” said Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, …

Chris Brown has slammed reports that he is hooked on sizzurp. In a string of tweets posted yesterday evening, Chris Brown claimed that because the popular gossip and breaking news site wasn’t “getting any traffic,” they would be running a “bogus story” on him today. Surely enough, this morning, TMZ ran an article about Chris very early this morning, claiming …

You may see people wearing red ribbons as we head toward the holiday season. MADD Canada is handing out millions of them as part of Project Red Ribbon. The campaign runs from November 1 to January 4, and is a symbol of the wearer’s commitment to sober driving. Its also a tribute to the thousands of Canadians who are killed …

The company behind Polaroid’s Cube camera is suing GoPro for making a cube camera. GoPro is definitely the first name in action cameras at the moment but that doesn’t mean they’ve got every part of the market sewn up, with the company releasing a number of new models in 2015. One of those was the Session camera, and that’s causing …

B.C. couple Mahalia and Mike Meeuwsen are the proud parents of three identical triplet girls, which doctors say only happens once in every 50 million births. The three babies, Hannah Marie, Rileigh Faith and Isabelle Grace , were delivered on Tuesday by caesarean section at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.