An adult femaleFernandina Giant Tortoise was found on the Galápagos Island of Fernandina after more than 100 years without a confirmed sighting.
Author: Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Texas dad faces felony for slapping stepdaughter’s 12-year-old bully, police say
James Peace, 37, allegedly slapped the boy “with such severity” that it knocked his headphones out of his ear, police in Deer Park, Texas, say.
At least five dead in Aurora, Illinois, workplace shooting: Here’s what we know now
Five peopleare dead including a gunman after a shooting at an industrial plant inAurora, Illinois, authorities said.Here’s what we know now.
From discovering water to snapping selfies: The lasting memories of Mars rover Opportunity
NASA announced Wednesday the Mars rover was deemed dead after it hadn’t communicated in over eight months. Here are some of its greatest discoveries
Substitute teacher resigns after telling class Martin Luther King Jr. killed himself
Lisa Luten, the communications director for Wake County public schools in North Carolina, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that the teacher resigned.
Cold case: After 30 years, mother arrested in killing of missing 3-year-old son
Francillon Pierre, 3, first went missing in 1986 after his mother Amy Elizabeth Fleming, 60, reported he disappeared at a Las Vegas swap meet.
Two endangered tigers were supposed to mate. But it turned deadly instead, zoo says
Sumatran tigers Asim andMelati were being introduced with hopes they would mate in the future when, instead, Asim killedMelati, the London Zoo said.
Woman smashed Bronx restaurant windows with bat over out-of-stock beef patties, police say
The incident last month began when the unknown suspect entered a Jamaican and American eatery, and ordered a beef patty with cheese, police say.
Facebook status: Divorced. Why millennials ‘killed’ how you decouple in the digital age
While younger people are bringing down the divorce rate, millennials who get divorced face new challenges that come with splitting in the digital era.
Denmark is building a ‘wall’ on its German border. To stop pigs
Crews began working in Padborg, and the roughly 5-foot-tall fence is scheduled to be completed in the fall this year, the Danish government said.