A visitor to Chicago’s Cook County Jail was trapped inside for about 30 hours over the July Fourth weekend. Local reports say he was visiting his son when he went into a room that wasn’t being used and the door closed and locked behind him.

The 5-year-old girl who was left inside of a truck parked in 90-degree heat for more than an hour on Tuesday told police she was being punished. Albuquerque officers arrested her parents, Angelica Lerma Montoya and Dulces Monge Perez, after witnesses reported a child locked inside a truck at the Home Depot near Eubank and Central.

Many pop stars’ vocals are altered and edited by sound engineers before they hit the airwaves, so it’s very rare to hear a raw recording from a singer — unless, of course, you’re a producer. It is unclear who leaked the track, but YouTube user “seekcover” posted Britney Spears’ song, “Alien,” without auto-tune last week. The leaked song from the …

A 911 dispatcher fields a call, only to realize it was coming from her own home. The dispatcher was able to keep calm and helped save her son’s life. Maverick was in the bedroom playing as his father moved furniture into the living room.

A Georgia prostitute at the center of the investigation into a Google executive’s death may also be tied to another violent act against a man she dated in the metro Atlanta area. At a California court, 26-year-old Alix Tichelman appeared in a red jumpsuit Wednesday facing drug and manslaughter charges. Police, who call Tichelman a “high-end call girl,” said she …

A whale that stranded on the southern Gold Coast on Tuesday night has been successfully ‘relaunched’ by Sea World staff this morning. The marine rescuer workers first tried to rescue the juvenile humpback yesterday, after it beached at Palm Beach late on Tuesday. But authorities struggled to move it offshore during yesterday’s high tide, and were forced to suspend the …

The clothing company J. Crew said its new size “000” was sparked by customer demand, specifically in Asia. The New York Daily News reported that the retailer denied that “XXXS” clothes are vanity sizes.

Amanda Bynes has reportedly started looking for a place to call her own, specifically, a dope apartment in DTLA! After last year’s mental breakdown and psychiatric treatment, the Hairspray actress has been living in her parents’ Los Angeles home — under monitored supervision.

An 11-year-old North Carolina boy retaliated against his grandfather, fatally shooting the 84-year-old after the grandfather shot the boy’s father, The Daily Dispatch reports.

There are billions of stars and planets in the universe. A star is glowing sphere of gas, while planets like Earth are made up of solids. The planets are formed in dust clouds that swirled around a newly formed star. Dust grains are composed of elements like carbon, silicon, oxygen, iron, and magnesium. But where does the cosmic dust come …

A new study has shown the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water into protons, electrons and oxygen, the process that maintains Earth’s oxygen atmosphere. Petra Fromme, lead author of the research said that this study is the first step towards their ultimate goal of unraveling the secrets of water splitting and obtaining molecular movies of biomolecules.