The 132-year-old Eugene S. Pike House might end up happily ever after, as the first phase of stabilization and repairs — initial steps toward turning the building into an arts center — is likely to ...

A Northern California landmark that has stood in a Weed, Calif. parking lot since 1962 was toppled in a crash Tuesday. The 32 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the ...

The Network showed how Russia restored light in Murmansk. After the large-scale blackout in Murmansk Region, which left the region's capital and the Northern Fleet base without light and heat, the ...

Victory, N.Y. - A 49-year-old man died Tuesday when his snowmobile collided with a town plow on a road in Cayuga County. After the collision on Ira Station Road in Victory, the snowmobile hit a wood ...

An Escondido police officer shot and critically wounded a man allegedly armed with a knife and wooden pole early Tuesday after a confrontation in an alley — two hours after police initially had spoken ...

In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.

More than 100 children on Saturday morning boarded a flight from Bush Intercontinental Airport to a top secret location: the North Pole. United Airlines partnered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to ...

ROSS. THAT’S RIGHT. INVESTIGATORS SAY WHEN THE MAN TRIED TO SCALE THAT POLE, IT BROKE. SEND HIM SENDING HIM TUMBLING TO THE GROUND. THOSE LIVE WIRES ON TOP OF HIM. AUTHORITIES SAY A MAN MADE A FATAL ...