It might not reflect well on us that a spider as aptly named as the brown recluse is so misunderstood. While many people know the truth about the brown recluse — that it is not aggressive, but a “shy, ...

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An invasive grass that spreads quickly in disturbed areas has been found in three state game areas, and officials are asking the public to help locate stands of the plant before it becomes thoroughly ...

At the age of 13, Brent Chapman lost his vision after having a serious reaction to ibuprofen. He went into a coma for 27 days. He lost his left eye, and most of the vision in his right eye. That was ...

Two days after four teenage girls were found murdered in a burning Austin yogurt shop in 1991, a man with a pistol in a stolen car was arrested at a border checkpoint west of El Paso. Nearly 34 years ...

The Jefferson County Board of Education is considering hiring an accounting firm to clarify the school district's financial state. The firm, Dean Dorton, would be tasked with helping to identify $132 ...

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

In March 1942, a flock of seven house finches was discovered on Long Island. This was highly unusual, since at the time, house finches were typically found only west of the Mississippi River, ...

JAQUE, Panama (AP) — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense ...

Reverse: 1999 is celebrating its second anniversary, and it sounds like an excellent time to hop into the gacha role-playing game. The game has just come off its Assassin’s Creed collaboration, and is ...

Paging more doctors to the Inland Empire. Answering the call to help fix the region’s shortage are students such as 25-year-old Markus Saavedra. Inspired by his veterinarian grandfather, the ...