Ten years ago this week, Mount St. Helens started shooting steam and ash in the air. The eruption wasn’t as big as the 1980 blast, but over three years it built a second lava dome in the crater that rose to more than 1,000 feet.

A Kyrgyzstan teen who went to a hospital complaining she couldn’t eat or drink for a few days discovered a huge hairball blocking her digestive system.

New research, published in Nature, theorizes that just one single gene is responsible for some Monarch butterfly populations becoming migratory, while others choose to stay put. It is also thought that the species did not originate in Central or South America, but in North America, specifically the American Southwest or Northern Mexico areas, around 2 million years ago.

A new study suggests older adults who lose their sense of smell, could be at an increased risk of early death.

Snoop Dogg has been an active member of the reddit community, partaking in the popular “Ask Me Anything” Q+A sessions on the site, and as a moderator for the site’s forum dedicated to stoners. Now, Snoop is taking his involvement to the next level as it was announced yesterday that he is now a co-owner of the growing website. In …

Lin Jun’s Chinese lover left Montreal for the summer on May 13, 2012, just days before the Concordia University student was killed and dismembered by Luka Magnotta. The last text Feng Lin received from his boyfriend was at about noon on May 25 in China, or around midnight the previous day in Montreal. He replied, but never received an answer, …

Abbotsford Police and search and rescue are out looking for a young girl. Constable Ian MacDonald with Abbotsford Police says she was seen lying by the side of the road near McCallum Road and Enterprise Avenue Tuesday night, then carried by a man into a treed area.

He isn’t the kind of date you hope to meet online. Winnipeg police have arrested a man who allegedly defrauded two women of $27,000. During two brief relationships orchestrated through a dating website between September 2-12, the man is said to have gained the victims’ trust and then accessed their banking information.

A dog that had fallen into a pool of hot tar in India was almost unrecognizable when rescuers got to him.

A Texas girl who has been missing for 12 years is back in the United States today after authorities located her in Mexico, authorities said.

Sandy Hook Elementary School in Monroe, Connecticut, was evacuated Wednesday morning because of a bomb threat, according to several media reports.