A man is accused of stealing meat worth $2,700 from three Safeway stores in Portland.

Trisha Yearwood has signed with Sony Music Nashville and RCA Records for a new album. The Grammy-winning vocalist announced the project in front of an audience of industry and media colleagues in Nashville Tuesday night (Aug. 19). The new album, which has no firm release date yet, is titled ‘Prize Fighter.’

James Foley, a freelance war correspondent from New Hampshire, was killed at the hands of the Islamic State militant group, which distributed a video that said the apparent beheading was retaliation for recent US airstrikes in Iraq, US officials said late Tuesday.

Albuquerque police arrested a 43-year-old man Saturday following a three-day investigation into the armed robbery of a 94-year-old man August 13.

A 505-million-year-old fossil worm called Hallucigenia sparsa has been identified as the progenitor of modern-day velvet worms, described by the Christian Science Monitor as “strange, sluglike creatures with centipede-style legss.”

There may be a city that’s even more sleep deprived than “the city that never sleeps.” The findings are from a vast new dataset released to The Wall Street Journal by Jawbone, the makers of the UP, a digitized wristband that tracks how its users move and sleep.

Winnipeg police have released the identity of a girl found dead in the Red River Sunday afternoon. Tina Fontaine, 15, was reported missing on Aug. 9. Her body was found in the Red River near the Alexander Docks at about 1:30 p.m., more than a week after she was reported missing.

Researchers and scientists from San Diego State University (SDSU) and other higher learning institutions from around the world have succeeded in becoming the first to sequence DNA at sea.

AstraZeneca and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma said on Wednesday they said signed a three-year research collaboration into diabetic nephropathy, or kidney failure due to diabetes.

A woman accidentally shot her 7-year-old grandson early Tuesday morning after she thought there was an intruder in her home, police said.

A United States truckie is being hailed as a hero after pulling a grandmother and a 1-year-old from a flaming car wreck. The pair were travelling in a Lincoln Town Car in Mississippi on August 11 when their car struck the fuel tank of a truck and burst into flames.