Posted 9:22 PM 5/16/2012 by Melissa Gray (CNN)
(CNN) -- Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western United States for Sunday's annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.
The eclipse will be visible on a path from northwestern Texas through New Mexico (More)
Posted 9:13 PM 5/15/2012 by Julie Peterson (CNN)
(CNN) -- Slammed into lockers, isolated in darkened schoolrooms, vulgar language by a teacher -- it was just another day at school for special needs student Alex Williams.
Recently released court documents say Alex, who has cerebral palsy, was routinely abused by teacher Melanie Pickens at (More)
Posted 2:30 PM 5/14/2012 by Noah Wilson-Rich, Ph.D.(for CNN)
(CNN) -- To all of the readers who don't think that honey bees are one of the most important concerns of our modern times, let me admit that I know where you're coming from. I wasn't the sort of kid who played in the dirt. I was terrified of insects (ew! bugs!), and never forgot my first (More)
Posted 9:00 PM 5/12/2012 by CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- A recent Oral Roberts University graduate was the only one of five people en route to a Christian youth conference to survive a plane crash in southeastern Kansas, officials said Saturday.
The twin-engine Cessna 401 went down Friday afternoon about 9 miles west of Chanute, the (More)
Posted 9:59 PM 5/11/2012 by Mariano Castillo and Greg Botelho (CNN)
(CNN) -- Dirty, dehydrated and starving, itching all over with poison ivy and bug bites, 12-year-old Alexandra Bain and her 8-year-old sister Kyliyah Bain lay face-down in a swath of northern Mississippi woods -- their kidnapper by their side.
Thirteen days earlier, authorities say the (More)
Posted 8:37 PM 5/10/2012 by CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- Adam Mayes -- accused of murder and kidnapping in a case involving a Tennessee mother and her three daughters -- has died, FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said late Thursday. The two sisters he allegedly kidnapped were found alive, law enforcement sources said.
There had been (More)