The most magical place on Earth became the scariest place Saturday night. Embers from a fireworks display started a fire on a building near the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction at Florida's Walt Disney World, a Disney spokeswoman said.
On Monday, Nov. 3, the private funeral service for Former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the city's longest serving mayor, was held at the Most Precious Blood Parish in Hyde Park.
Twenty five people were arrested Monday for protesting the work of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the government agency that approvals projects for producing and moving natural gas - pipelines, natural gas facilities, compressors. The arrests are just the beginning of a week of protests planned at the agency. Often times the pipelines and compressors are going through areas not normally associated with industrialization.
One World Trade Center opens Monday in Lower Manhattan for its first tenant, publisher Conde Nast, to move in, reports CNN. The publisher is moving 3,400 staffers into 24 stories, from floors 20 through 44. The skyscraper opens 13 years after the World Trade Center Twin Towers were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.
With the Texas gubernatorial election coming to a close on Nov. 4, the candidates are reportedly relying on efforts to push registered voters to the polling booths on Election Day.
The first snowfall of the season has covered Maine in almost two feet of snow, cutting power to thousands of residents. As crews continue unearthing the state from its snowy cover and start re-establishing power, other parts of the country are also waking up to snow weeks before the beginning of winter.
Hurricane Vance is rapidly intensifying off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean and strengthened from a Category One to a Category Two storm on Sunday night.
Asian Americans courted by both sides in upcoming elections Asians are the new minority whose hearts politicians are trying to win over for the upcoming elections.
A fire sparked from a firework caused a big fire on the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Walt Disney World in Florida Saturday night, but officials said it was quickly put out
President Barack Obama will revisit Myanmar this month. Obama visited the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, two years ago, being the first American chief executive to do so.
Flawed program threatens to scrub millions of eligible minority voters in 27 states Reports of Republicans courting minority voters are countered by a flawed program that threatens to remove their voting eligibility under the guise of targeting voter fraud, Al-Jazeera reports.
The Massachusetts state police bomb squad responded to reports that a man in Salem had set off several homemade explosives in his home Saturday morning.
The civil rights activist and MSNBC host, the Rev. Al Sharpton has called for a federal prosecution into the police shooting death of Ferguson black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer. Sharpton say the grand jury is tainted.
The Albuquerque Police Department reached a settlement with the city and the Department of Justice in a case made public Friday. As a result, APD will overhaul its use of force policies, recruitment, training, internal affairs procedures and field supervision of officers.
The New York doctor has been upgraded from serious to a stable condition. A woman in Oregon with a sustained temperate of 102 degrees is isolated and being tested for Ebola and other possible diseases.
Cancer-killing stem cells engineered at Harvard Stem cell research offers yet another breakthrough with the latest success of an engineered cancer-killing cell, according to the BBC.
