A pair of brothers killed their parents, sister, and grandmother, leaving behind a chilling suicide note that said the murders were planned. Farhan Towhid, 19, and Tanvir Towhid, 21, murdered four members of their family before taking their own lives in Allen, Texas. Allen Police Department ...

Kelly Alder was at the lowest, loneliest point in her life when she joined a polygamous cult aged 27. She had enjoyed a story-book childhood in Surrey, her father with his own successful wholesale grocery business and her mother stayed at home with Kelly and her sister. Her parents seemed happy ...

A new study suggests that when hunters and gatherers crossed the ancient Bering Land Bridge that connected Asia to North America during the last Ice Age, they carried pieces of ancestral Australian DNA in their ancestral code. Over the generations, they moved south, eventually making their way ...

A North Carolina paramedic accused of using eye drops to kill his wife has now also been accused of setting a medical helicopter on fire during a flight. Joshua Hunsucker was charged with felony burning personal property for the in-flight incident that took place on Novemebr 26, 2019, ...

In the summer of 2019, an immense swarm of tens of millions of grasshoppers descended on Las Vegas’s tourist strip. It was so intense some people said it was a plague of near-biblical proportions. During the swarm’s peak on July 27, approximately 45.8 million insects — which weigh 30.2 metric ...

A former film and television production designer turned hoarder has been found mummified under a massive pile of garbage in her Queens home, according to police. The sister of 66-year-old Evelyn Sakash told police she had not heard from her since October 2020. She also described her sister a ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded while attempting to land during a test flight. Elon Musk’s space exploration company was attempting to launch and land one of its Starship rockets, just four weeks after another test ended up in an explosion. All three previous Starship flights had ...

According to a new study, humans may have the potential to become venomous. Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Australian National University have found a connection between salivary glands in mammals and venom glands in snakes. ...

A former police officer shot and killed two ISIS militants after escaping a massacre in Mozambique. His daughter said he had to hide in the bushes until he was rescued. Last week, Islamist militants stormed Palma, a town in northern Mozambique. They targeted everything from military barracks to ...

Every year, on beaches around the world, colonies of sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) end up stranded on beaches by the thousands. They then dry up and die, becoming a “crunchy carpet” of dehydrated corpses covering the sand, Julia Parrish, a University of Washington professor and ...