A 9-year-old California boy is in a medically induced coma after suffering from an electric jolt at his own birthday party over the weekend. Family members and fire officials told the Press Enterprise that Elijah Belden was near the pool in his backyard when he was shocked.

A lawsuit filed against Virginia Wesleyan College claims the school did not do enough to protect female students from sexual assaults on campus and fails to adequately help them after they are assaulted. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a student raped on her third day of freshman orientation in 2012 who since has left the college.

Kangaroo street fight goes viral, Last week, two wild kangaroos were caught on camera fighting each other in the middle of a suburban street in Australia.

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Madrid’s regional government says it’s going to kill the pet dog of a Spanish woman who became infected with Ebola. Authorities said in a statement Tuesday that available scientific knowledge indicates there’s a risk the dog could transmit the deadly virus to humans.

Nina Dobrev has become a new victim in the nude celebrity hacking scandal, but although the 25-year-old actresses privacy has been violated, it’s nowhere near as bad as it could be.

OPP say the ‘Big Four’ were contributing factors in 78 per cent of road deaths investigated by provincial officers so far this year. The Big Four refers to the four main causes of motor vehicle collision deaths: distracted driving, speeding, impaired driving, and lack of occupant restraint.

The number of high-tide floods each year in some US towns may triple in the next 15 years and in 30 years a ten-fold increase compared to historic levels may be seen, scientists have warned.

A passenger aboard a plane flying from Dallas to Midland was taken to the hospital to be checked out after crews thought she was experiencing symptoms resembling Ebola.

Sarah Goldberg, who played Sarah Glass Camden on “7th Heaven,” died in her sleep Sept. 27 in Wisconsin. Her family suspected a heart attack, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. She was 40.

NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $50 million to seven research teams nationwide to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.