Brad Matthews

Millennia-old Egyptian skull shows signs of surgical treatment for cancer

A team of European researchers found cut marks near lesions on the skull of an Egyptian man dating back thousands of years. The marks suggest a form of cancer treatment.

June 4, 2024

60-year-old Mississippi seafood restaurant pleads guilty to selling frozen, foreign fish as local

Mary Mahoney's Old French House Restaurant, a Biloxi, Mississippi, seafood and steak place open since 1964, pleaded guilty this week to charges of conspiracy to misbrand seafood and wire fraud.

June 1, 2024

South Carolina woman dies amid fire from microwaved foil-wrapped food

A Sumter County, South Carolina, woman died recently after a fire started in her house when someone put a foil-wrapped sandwich into a microwave oven.

June 1, 2024

California octogenarian accused of slingshot vandalism dies a day after leaving jail on bail

An 81-year-old California man accused of using a slingshot to vandalize car and house windows in his neighborhood over the course of a decade died this week, one day after bonding out of jail.

June 1, 2024

Malaysian climber rescued from 19,600 feet up Alaska’s Denali

A Malaysian man was saved Friday from a snow cave 19,600 feet up Alaska's Denali, the highest mountain in North America. A fellow climber died before he could be rescued.

June 1, 2024

Japanese space agency loses contact with Venus orbiter Akatsuki

The Japanese space exploration agency JAXA has lost contact with its Akatsuki space probe, which was launched in 2010 and has been in Venus' orbit since 2015.

May 31, 2024

Loch NASA? Nessie hunters seek U.S. space agency’s aid in plumbing depths of Scotland’s Loch Ness

The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is asking for the aid of NASA and its equipment to find Nessie, the long-necked freshwater creature that some believe lives in Loch Ness.

May 31, 2024

Three arrested after machete attack in Times Square

A trio of people were taken into police custody in New York's Times Square after they reportedly used a machete to stab a man in both legs.

May 31, 2024

Volcano erupts in Iceland, forcing evacuations

The Sundhnukur row of craters on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted this week, forcing road closures and evacuations, including of the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

May 31, 2024

U.S. Postal Service ranks worst cities, states for dog attacks on its workers

The U.S. Postal Service released the list of the states and cities where its workers suffered the most dog bites in 2023, ahead of an awareness week beginning Sunday.

May 30, 2024

House collapses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, sixth in four years

An unoccupied house collapsed in the Outer Banks in North Carolina this week, the sixth dwelling lost in the past four years, according to officials for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

May 30, 2024

Houston police find an alligator with a dead woman in its jaws

A search for a missing woman in a bayou in Clear Lake, Texas, ended in horror when a Houston Police sergeant came upon an alligator chewing on the woman's remains.

May 30, 2024

American Airlines plane narrowly avoids collision at Reagan National

American Airlines Flight 2134 to Boston barely missed hitting another plane on the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday, the second such incident in six weeks.

May 30, 2024

Panda-mania 2.0: D.C.’s National Zoo to get two new pandas from China

Great news, D.C. panda fans -- the lovable, bamboo-eating Chinese black-and-white bears are returning to the Smithsonian National Zoo. A new pair of pandas are set to arrive by the end of the year.

May 29, 2024

Backpack tied to a pole outside D.C. Superior Court spurs road closures, police investigation

Police closed roads around D.C. Superior Court just blocks from the Capitol Wednesday morning after an unattended backpack was found tied to a pole outside the building.

May 29, 2024

Ohio real estate billionaire to go down to Titanic wreckage in a submersible

Close to a year after the implosion of the OceanGate Titan submersible killed all five people aboard, an Ohio real estate billionaire is planning to go down to the wrecked Titanic in his own craft.

May 28, 2024

Scammers impersonated Best Buy the most in 2023, says FTC

Scammers looking to obtain payment methods through impersonation imitated Best Buy or its Geek Squad tech support service the most compared with other companies in 2023, per the Federal Trade Commission.

May 28, 2024

19-year-old man survives 400-foot fall into canyon in Washington state

A 19-year-old man has escaped with minimal injuries after falling 400 feet into a canyon beneath the High Steel Bridge near Shelton, Washington.

May 28, 2024

Chinese military shows off rifle-mounted robot dogs at joint exercise with Cambodia

China's army has a new weapon in its arsenal: four-legged robot dogs with rifles mounted on their back, exhibited during its Golden Dragon training with Cambodia.

May 28, 2024

Octogenarian arrested, accused of vandalizing windows with a slingshot for a decade

An 81-year-old man was arrested in Azusa, California, for using his slingshot to shoot out windows and windshields in his neighborhood for 10 years.

May 25, 2024