The latest viral spider news is horrifying at face value: Residents of North Memphis, Tennessee, were treated to an unexpectedly white Thanksgiving when a spider web at least half a mile long appeared on the grass.Local news outlets report that “millions” of spiders are on the scene, with residents desperate for the town to take action.”I’ve seen about 20 on my porch just in the last day,” a resident […]

A Payne County judge has lifted part of a gag order involving charges filed after the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash.

Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth…

Authorities have identified three people found shot to death in an apparent double-homicide and suicide at a central Missouri home.

Springfield police are asking for the public’s help as investigators try to find out who killed a man last month.

Last Friday night, the Union of White NYU Students, a “community” on Facebook, posted its first status update.Linking to a student-run blog addressing diversity issues at New York University, the union’s Facebook admin mused, “What does ‘diversity’ mean other than ‘not white’? I’m not sure there is an answer to this. Is the word ‘diversity’ itself a discriminatory term against whites?”Subsequent posts […]

Simmering racial tensions have boiled over yet again after several men shot five people who had been protesting the recent police killing of an African-American man in Minneapolis.The shooting occurred late Monday night about a block from the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct, where protesters have held daily demonstrations since the fatal Nov. 15 police shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark. […]

A 32-year-old Wichita man faces about 2 ½ years in prison for a fatal shooting in June.

Police and highway patrol agencies in eight states spanning the country plan stepped-up patrols along Interstate 40 over the Thanksgiving travel period to reduce collisions and prevent fatalities.

The Leavenworth County Historical Society has launched a $1 million campaign to retrieve glass-plate photo negatives taken more than century ago during Leavenworth’s pioneer days.