THEY met on the local hot rod scene. They saw one another at tattoo conventions around the area, comparing bikes. They looked like heavies, a band of Hells Angels, with nicknames equally tough: Mike Tattoo, Big Ant, Johnny O, Batso, Sal, Angel, Des.

The spirit of the Olympics is supposed to be one of peace and international cooperation. As host of this year's games, China should embody that spirit. Instead, China used its position as a convenient excuse to jail, deport, and murder.

I would call up Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube and watch it with my children, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price: that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did this

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This 30 second video is powerful, but NOT graphic at all, letting your imagination fill in the blanks. Please respond to their cry and help Animals Asia Foundation help them. The dog in this photo awaits her fate at a market in Guangzhou.

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This is very sad. Even there own people suffer. It's not only the furbabies. When will all this death and horror end for mankind?

An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Nine caskets lined the front of a coliseum Friday as thousands of firefighters from across the nation, their hats in their hands, honored nine colleagues killed in a furniture store blaze. With an orchestra playing, uniforme

A man involved in opening a premier shooting range has been arrested in connection with the death of his brother, a Denton peace activist who was found slumped over the front seat of his truck with a gunshot wound to the head, Flower Mound police said.