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A man has been freed after spending 30 years on death row in Angola prison, Louisiana. Glenn Ford, 64, was sentenced to death in 1983, accused of killing 56-year-old jeweller Isadore Rozeman. Ford has always claimed he is innocent.

It was a close call Thursday night for passengers and crew on a US Airways flight bound for Florida. They were forced to evacuate after a major malfunction during takeoff around 6:30 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport. Investigators are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong. But airport officials say the pilot reported a blown tire and aborted the …

Amy and Matt Roloff, stars of the TLC series, Little People, Big World, announced on Wednesday that they were separating, but it may not necessarily be over for good. Amy Roloff tweeted that she’s hopeful that they’ll be able to work through their problems.

A Louisiana man has found a 2.89 carat white diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Park Interpreter Margi Jenks released the following statement:

After wide public outcry over the social networking sites the small ailing boy has been made available the required drug by the company. Chimerix will be experimenting the drug to the 7-year-old Virginia boy and undertaking a huge operational burden. However, the small and unprofitable biotechnology company said the experiment will only be on one patient, the young boy, and …

Irish heartthrob Liam Neeson reveals that he and late wife Natasha Richardson had a pact to “pull the plug” if either fell into a vegetative state. Neeson made the admission in an exclusive interview with Anderson Cooper to be aired Sunday on 60 Minutes. The star of Taken and the new thriller Non-Stop has spoken little of the ski accident …

Traditional sports are plagued by all kinds of controversies – doping, personal player scandals and match fixing cause outrage, but are expected. It appears that eSports is reaching that point, too, as a match fixing scandal was revealed at the highest levels of play. Unfortunately, it also led a player to try to take his own life.

There’s even more controversy surrounding Whitney Houston’s death thanks to a Beverly Hills police officer’s alleged actions during the investigation. Officer Brian Weir is suing the city of Beverly Hills for retaliating against him when he reported Lieutenant Terry Nutall for misconduct during immediate investigation after Houston’s death.

At least seven people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday in a “major explosion” in New York City that razed two buildings to the ground and caused a five-alarm fire, officials said… The death toll climbed to six early Thursday morning as rescue workers pulled another lifeless body from the mountain of debris at 1644 Park Avenue. At least …

A central Indiana woman who promised to donate one of her kidneys to a man she barely knew has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery. Chelsea Clair and Kyle Froelich met at a 2009 car show when he was 19 and she was 22. Clair learned that day that Froelich had a serious kidney disease — and …

A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts. Stephen Power from Cardiff is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.