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It was supposed to be the couple’s happiest day: Kelly Ecker, a nurse, and Dr. George Scott Samson married Saturday afternoon in Terre Haute, Indiana. By their wedding night, both were dead. Samson, an anesthesiologist at Union Hospital is Terre Haute, shot his bride and then himself in their home just hours after they exchanged vows, authorities said.

U.S. broadcasters are so concerned by the possibility Canada will switch to a pick-and-pay system for cable TV channels that several of them have threatened to pull themselves off Canadian airwaves altogether.

A landscaper has died and another is critically ill after the men were attacked by thousands of swarming bees in southern Arizona.

Google Inc has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp, arguing that the high court must act to protect innovation in high tech. Google’s request, filed on Monday, seeks to overturn an appeals court ruling that found Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language, which Google used to design its Android smartphone …

Health authorities in Spain have put to death the dog of a nurse infected with the Ebola virus in Madrid, sparking protests from animal rights groups. Activists scuffled with police outside her home as the dog was taken away.

After a highly publicized case that drew national attention, a Battle Creek native learned her sentence Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to attempting to kill both herself and her daughter. After a sentencing hearing that went on over the course of three days, Kelli Stapleton was sentenced Wednesday to between 10 and 22 years in prison.

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.

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.