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George Clayton Johnson, who wrote the script for the first Star Trek episode to air and co-wrote Logan’s Run, died Tuesday (Dec 22) in the Los Angeles area following a battle with cancer. He was 86. Johnson’s son Paul posted this on Facebook: My Father, George Clayton Johnson, passed away this Christmas day at 12:46 p.s.t. He was more than …

The NHS Choir has beaten Canadian pop star Justin Bieber to secure the UK’s official Christmas number one for 2015. The Lewisham and Greenwich choir’s charity single, A Bridge Over You, has claimed the top spot in the closest chart battle since 2009 when Rage Against The Machine beat X Factor star Joe McElderry.

Carson Daly married his longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter on Wednesday. The Voice US presenter and Siri have been together for 10 years and finally tied the knot. According to People, the ceremony was an intimate affair held in front of close family.

Turkish President Erdogan used his celebrated rhetorical skills to save a life on Friday, preventing a man from jumping off Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge. Extraordinary television footage obtained Anadolu Agency shows Mr Erdogan’s motorcade stopping on Istanbul’s Bosporus Bridge after spotting a man standing over the side of the railing. He was reportedly planning to jump, according to Turkish officials.

California health officials warned people Wednesday to take care when handling food after a marked increase in cases of norovirus, which they also subtly referred to as “winter vomiting disease.” The CDPH has confirmed 32 outbreaks of norovirus in California since Oct. 1, which the department suspects has likely resulted in hundreds of reported sicknesses in the state. These outbreaks …

Michael Korchak was admittedly a little nervous flying home to Toronto from Halifax for the holidays last week. He’d hit a snag on his trip home to Burlington last Thursday for Christmas and a group of Air Canada employees was gathering around him at its busy departure gate at the Halifax airport. The 25-year-old Canadian Armed Forces member, who’s in …

An armed man was shot and killed by an off-duty officer at Northlake Mall on Christmas Eve, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The incident happened about 2 p.m. Thursday. The shooting was not a random act but rather the result of a feud among people who knew each other, Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. There was no …

Dalene Bowden, An Idaho cafeteria worker is fighting to get her job back after she was fired just days before Christmas for giving a hungry 12-year-old girl a free meal. Dalene Bowden has now received a registered letter from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District informing her that she has been fired. The brief, one-page letter was signed by District 25 Director …

CDC – The rate of twin births in the United States reached a record high in 2014, according to an annual report released Wednesday, December 23, 2015, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. For every 1,000 births in 2014, 33.9 twins were born, the report shows. For white, black and Hispanic women, the …

Chicago rapper King Louie was shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, his management team confirmed. King Louie was shot in the head while in a car in the Ashburn neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side, according to police, reported the Chicago Sun-Times. Officials said King Louie was taken to Advocate Christ Medical …

Where is Santa right now? The North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) is tracking Santa’s flight and whereabouts as he makes his annual journey around the world delivering gifts to the world’s children.