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Police say an East Tennessee father forced his son to drink alcohol Saturday night until he passed out as a punishment after he caught the 15-year-old drinking.

Police in Philadelphia say a man used a banana he swiped from a convenience store counter to simulate a gun while he robbed the place.

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario is now confirming four cases of enterovirus D68 (EV D68). These cases mark the first ones confirmed in Ottawa.

A skunk with a beer can stuck on its head had to be rescued near a fraternity house in southwestern Ohio.

A simple blood test could help doctors to treat prostate cancer by identifying when treatment shifts from being helpful to harmful. Scientists found that some treatments for prostate cancer were initially effective but in time began to actually drive tumour growth.

“Healthy” might be a misnomer. According to a new study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, healthy humans can unknowingly house viruses in their bodies.

New York Times writer Maureen Dowd has literally become the poster woman for responsible pot consumption, after a public awareness campaign turned her bad edibles trip into a cautionary tale.

former Washington County sheriff’s deputy is in jail, charged in the 1981 Ohio cold case killing of a fellow deputy. Mitchell Ruble, 63, of Lowell, Ohio, was arrested Tuesday and is in the Washington County Jail on a charge of aggravated murder in the death of Deputy Lt. Ray “Joe” Clark.

The survival of the United Kingdom was hanging by a thread last night after the final Times poll in the referendum campaign put the nationalists only two points from victory. The large YouGov poll put the No campaign to keep the Union on 52 per cent with Yes on 48 per cent. Four per cent remained undecided, enough to swing …

The findings of a study published on September 17 in Nature suggest that consumption of non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) could raise the risk of diabetes.

Middle-aged people who suffer migraines, particularly those accompanied by flashing lights, are more than twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, a study has found.