OMAHA, Neb. – An Omaha zoo worker was bitten by a Komodo dragon on Sunday and treated at a local hospital. The female worker was taken from the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to a hospital after the 12:30 p.m. incident. Later in the afternoon, the zoo said in a …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico is preparing to overhaul its heavily indebted public power company as the U.S. territory’s government faces a July deadline to approve a new budget and make a roughly $400 million payment to the utility’s investors amid growing concerns that public agencies could go …

CHICAGO – Better known as the home of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigleyville is also one of the most popular neighborhoods in the city for young singles and couples to live and play in the Windy City. • Click here for photos. During baseball season, locals will tell you that living …

Astronomers have long talked about a “habitable zone” around a star as being a confined and predictable region where temperatures were not too cold, not too hot, so that a planet could retain liquid water and therefore support life as we know it. The zone may not be so fixed, …

LOS ANGELES – Colin Farrell “Freaked” About Playing Heath Ledger’s Role Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp & Jude Law hit headlines earlier this year when they stepped in to help finish Heath Ledger’s final film “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” — but the decision to climb on board and bring to …

Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up every eight minutes or so to connect our planet with its host star. Once the portals open, loads of high-energy particles can travel the 93 million miles (150 million km) through the conduit during its brief opening, …

It’s less than six degrees of separation from one unsolved mystery to another, or from the JonBenet Ramsey murder case to the current reported scandal involving former presidential candidate John Edwards. The saga took a strange turn last month when the ex-senator was reportedly found cowering in a bathroom at …

Mosab Hassan Yousef is an extraordinary young man with an extraordinary story. He was born the son of one of the most influential leaders of the militant Hamas organization in the West Bank and grew up in a strict Islamic family. Now, at 30 years old, he attends an evangelical …

The launch pad delivery of a container filled with new equipment bound for the Hubble Space Telescope next month has been delayed by at least a day due to loose insulation, space agency officials said Wednesday. NASA workers were set to move Hubble’s delicate replacement parts to Launch Pad 39A …

The Los Angeles Times says the Iraqis are turning into “i-fatties” and it’s our fault. It seems that sectarian violence — a result of the war — caused citizens to hide in their homes where they sit around and eat all day, glued to their PlayStations — just like us …