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James Heselden, the millionaire owner of Segway Inc., died in an accident when he drove one of the company’s two-wheeled vehicles off a cliff and into a river, West Yorkshire police said today.

Police have identified the body of a woman found hanging from a tree early Saturday morning on east Myrtle Street and are trying to locate her family and anyone else who might know her.

The Seton Hall student killed at a house party Saturday died a hero, jumping in the path of bullets to save her Bronx friend, witnesses said.

President Barack Obama appeared on “The Today Show” Monday morning, and told Matt Lauer that if Rahm Emanuel does decide to run for Mayor of Chicago, he must do so quickly.

According to the New Post, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Nation Of Islam minister, Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party, according to the New York Post. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a […]

Nobody ever said Ann Coulter was going to play nice during her time at Homocon, a summet held by the gay conservative group GOProud over the weekend, not even the organizers who insisted that she be there. Perhaps it came as little surprise to them, then, when the conservative pundit stood before the group of […]

He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and returned home to treat the city’s poor.

Meet Melissa Petro — the teacher who gives a new twist to “sex ed.”

It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public disclosure.

Sorry kids, President Obama wants to extend the school year by a month.

CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted over the weekend that he was a victim of a pedophile as a child. Lemon made the startling announcement on live TV while discussing the scandal involving Georgia Bishop Eddie Long, who is accused of sexually abusing male teenage members of his church. “I have never admitted this on television,” […]