A missing Southern Illinois University-Carbondale student has been found dead. Police found the body of Pravin Varughese in the 1400 block of East Main Street in Carbondale Tuesday around 9:45 a.m. Varughese was reported missing six days ago, and family and friends had offered a $15,000 reward to help bring him home.

Missouri is still intent on the execution of death row inmate Michael Taylor according to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. This after documents filed Monday show that inmate Michael Taylor has reached an agreement with The Apothecary Shoppe, whom Taylor had sued, to not make the drug for his upcoming execution. Taylor’s lawsuit alleges that several recent executions in which compounded …

Eddie Albert, a two-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the long-running television series Green Acres, died of pneumonia at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades on May 26. Albert was 99. (Photo: Green Acres Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor.) Albert was featured in more than 70 movies from the late ’30s to the late ’80s. …

A Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her pregnant friend and cutting the baby from her womb was convicted on Wednesday. Julie Corey had suffered a miscarriage three months prior to the murder and she was found guilty of beating and strangling her friend before cutting the baby from her body and attempting to pass the child off as …

Most of the time, turbulence is just an uncomfortable, if not almost inevitable part of flying. But then there are the times when turbulence is downright terrifying and a real danger. Three flight attendants and five passengers on a United Airlines flight yesterday from Denver to Billings, Mont. were injured when the plane hit turbulence so severe, people were tossed …

Two former members of a militant black power group convicted of killing two New York City police officers in 1971 are again seeking parole. But this time, Anthony Bottom and Herman Bell will appear before the state Parole Board after admitting to the slayings.

Gus Kenworthy and the five dogs he saved from their battle to survive on the streets of Sochi is now stuck in Russia waiting for paperwork to go through so he can bring the pups to their new homes in the U.S.

Malin Akerman is starting over with some brand new ink! The newly separated star just altered a tattoo of her ex-husband Robert Zincone’s name to her son Sebastian’s. The “Trophy Wife” actress showed off her body art via Instangram over the weekend. She posted, “@josecordova thx for the beautiful tattoo 😉 #miamiink,” with the snap of her wrist.

In a tragic story today, a central California father helplessly watched his family, which included his wife and their four young children, perish in a fiery car crash after trying to unsuccessfully rescue his family from the burning vehicle, authorities said Sunday. The man was driving behind his family Saturday night when the driver of a minivan ran a stop …

A giant asteroid will be passing Earth tonight and its progress will be filmed and streamed live online. The asteroid, 2000 EM26, is the size of three football fields and while it poses no threat to Earth, it will come within around 8.8 lunar distances from our planet – around 3,380,000km.

A week-and-a-bit ago, the internet’s favourite science guy, Bill Nye, took to the stage at the Creation Museum, in Kentucky, USA, and had a formal debate with pro-creationist, Ken Ham. 500 000 people tuned in on YouTube to watch the debate live, and the video’s had nearly 2-million views since then.