A teenager and a Norfolk Police officer have died, and another officer was wounded, after several shootings Friday night, according to WAVY. The suspect in the shootings has also died.

The Washington D.C. metropolitan area has reclaimed the top spot in an annual ranking of health and community fitness, bumping Minneapolis-St. Paul, last year’s three-peat winner, to second place. Portland, Denver and San Francisco round out the Top 5 on the 2014 American Fitness Index report, released today.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu labelled the oilsands “filth,” arguing production is motivated by “negligence and greed,” and that climate change will be the 21st century’s moral struggle.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s eldest is growing up fast. This week, the actress revealed that 12-year-old Maddox has got a girlfriend. “He’s dating, he’s got a girlfriend,” the star confirmed to Entertainment Tonight at the Hollywood premiere of Maleficent, adding that both she and Brad approve of the young lady.

If going to bed to the chirping of crickets is what you fantasize about during your vacation, then heading to the Hawaiian islands Kauai and Oahu may not be a good idea. Male crickets in these two islands have lost their ability to chirp. They have developed flatwings as a result of separate, but simultaneous, evolutionary adaptation that started as …

The rocks about four-billion-year-old showed crust-forming processes that are very similar to those occurring in present-day Iceland. “This provides the first physical evidence that a setting similar to modern Iceland was present on the early earth,” said Jesse Reimink from University of Alberta in Canada, who collected and studied rock samples from the Acasta Gneiss Complex in Canada.

Police say three people were killed and six injured at a road rally in Edinburgh, Scotland, after two cars collided with spectators in separate accidents. Organizers said the Jim Clark Rally in the Scottish Borders was canceled, and that they were cooperating with the police investigation to determine the cause of the crashes.

Barack Obama may be president of the United States, but he is still a father, so he had to be feeling some kind of way when his eldest daughter took part in that teenage rite of passage and went to her first prom. Malia Obama, 15, is a 10th grader now, so she does what other adolescents do and that …

A sheriff’s SWAT team raided a home in rural Habersham County, Ga., looking for drugs and threw a stun grenade into a toddler’s playpen, critically injuring the child, who is given a 50-percent chance at survival, authorities have reported.

Prostitution and the import, manufacture and consumption of illegal drugs like crack cocaine and heroin will be included in the official estimates of the country’s economy, the national statistics agency said Friday. Until recently the CSO has steered clear of measuring the seediest of illegal activities, only making estimates for things like fuel smuggling and drug importing.

A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have created a new sprinting robot inspired by a velociraptor. The robot, dubbed the Raptor, runs on two legs, and is capable of running 46 kilometers per hour (kph), or 28 miles per hour (mph), on a treadmill, according to CNET. Raptor can run faster than …