Los Angeles police released the audio from a 911 call made from the home of actress Demi Moore. A friend who made the call said Moore had smoked something and was convulsing.
AP - Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday.
AP - Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall.
AP - President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation's colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they "jack up tuition" every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
AP - Senegal's highest court ruled Friday that the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition which has vowed to take to the streets if the aging leader does not step aside.
AP - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the top ranks of the largest public companies in the world, on par with the likes of McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.
AP - The voyage of a cargo boat that carries space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force has stalled in a western Kentucky river after it slammed into an aging traffic bridge.
AP - Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catching trim.
AP - On serve and when whipping his forehand, Novak Djokovic's grunt is that of a bullfrog, "WooooAH-UH." Rafael Nadal goes for a throatier, "AAArrgggHH." Occasionally, Andy Murray offers up a more hushed, constricted, "Eeeeeehhh." From Roger Federer, of course, we tend to get the sound of silence.
Testing on chimps has saved lives in the past, but whether a chimp gets to retire is entirely up to the labs and the government. Jane Goodall has been trying for decades to get this kind of animal testing banned.
Home prices have fallen by a third since the 2006, creating tremendous bargains for home buyers. Mortgage rates are at rock-bottom lows, making houses more affordable than they have been in decades.
A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced the "Barefoot Bandit" to 6 1/2 years in prison for his two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts.
The man who killed a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 Cheshire, Conn., home invasion was sentenced to death on Friday and addressed the court before the sentence was handed down.
In another blow to San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a judge has refused to lift an order that prevents him from contact with his wife and son.
Federal park authorities in the nation's capital gave notice to Occupy protesters -- a move seen by the activists as a "slow creep" aimed at whittling down their demonstration.
Patrick Witt, the 22-year-old Yale quarterback who made headlines in November when he chose to lead Yale against arch rival Harvard University over an interview for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship may not have been faced with that tough choice after all.
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul bankrolling Newt Gingrich’s super PAC isn’t trying to “buy” a presidency, his top political consultant tells NBC News.
A Southwest Airlines employee at Washington Dulles International Airport died on Friday after being injured in a collision with a luggage cart and another piece of equipment.
U.S. health regulators said on Friday that they had detained three shipments of Brazilian orange juice, and six from Canada, that tested positive for the fungicide carbendazim.
In what prosecutors called the longest sentence for stalking in memory, a Seattle-area man received a 26 1/2-year prison term for waging a 17-year campaign of harassment against a former classmate that began after she offered him help with his homework in 1994.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched her own investigation into the mysterious illness causing facial tics and verbal outbursts among 15 teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y.
Almost two weeks after the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy, leaving at least 16 people dead and 19 missing, Costa Cruises is offering uninjured passengers $14,460, or euro11,000 each to compensate for mental trauma and lost baggage.
Dylan Dougherty, who along with his siblings is accused of a fugitive crime spree this past summer, had plans to escape from a Denver jail and had slipped a note to his sister, Lee Grace Dougherty, informing her of his plan, authorities say.
We all may be guilty of overindulging in our favorite food every now and then. But it seems like one British teen has taken her single food addiction to a whole new level. Stacey Irvine, 17, of Castle Vale, Birmingham, loves eating McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets....
As the deadline to claim a $16 million Hot Lotto jackpot passed without a winner today, the Iowa attorney general's office launched a criminal investigation into the only person who tried to claim the prize.
A Lakeville, Minn., dad was convicted of child neglect after abandoning his 11-year old son in a foreclosed home with a note to go to his neighbor. Steven Cross, 60, was in tears after a six-person jury convicted him of gross misdemeanor child neglect on...
Despite a benign reputation for reducing users to peals of laughter, nitrous oxide can deprive the heart and brain of oxygen and cause damage. Nitrous oxide use is what reportedly landed actress Demi Moore in the hospital this week, according to the website TMZ.com, which posted statements from a friend who was at the 49-year-old actress's home when she lapsed into semi-consciousness.
A cargo ship plowed through a Kentucky bridge, leaving a 300-foot gap in the middle of the structure and carrying off a load of asphalt and metal on the ship’s bow. The 312-foot-long ship, the Delta Mariner, struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge in Benton, Ky., about...
Nancy Tyler's ex-husband, Richard Shenkman -- a successful advertising executive whose company produced "The Gayle King Show" -- kidnapped Tyler and burned their home to the ground.
