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With a breakaway layup at the overtime buzzer, Stephen F. Austin pulled off a shocker for the ages and did what no team outside the ACC had done in almost 20 years — topple mighty Duke at home.

A stranger hacked a Seattle couple’s baby monitor and used it to peer around their home remotely and tell the pair’s 3-year-old, “I love you,” the child’s mother said and NBC News reported. The parents’ concerns were aired Friday by NBC News affiliate KING TV, which identified the shaken mother and father by their first names only, Jo and John....

Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.

It was 50 years ago today, that The Beatles caused a traffic delay. And hundreds of fans of the Fab Four gathered Thursday at a crosswalk in London’s St. John’s Wood neighborhood immortalized on the “Abbey Road” album to recreate the cover photo half a century after it was taken. At 11:35 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1969, Iain Macmillan photographed...

Television pioneer Lew Klein died on Wednesday at 91 years old. Klein was behind popular shows such as “American Bandstand” and influenced many careers in television. He taught at Temple University for over six decades. 

Lew Klein, a Philadelphia television news executive who also taught countless future journalists for decades at Temple University, has died, the university announced Thursday. He was 91.

Dr. John, the New Orleans singer and piano player who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said. He was 77. In a statement released through his publicist, the family said Dr. John, who was born Mac Rebennack, died “toward the break of day” of a heart attack.

Russian gay rights activists and cultural figures are criticizing the local distributor of a new movie about Elton John for cutting scenes in it depicting homosexual activity and drug use. The deletions became known last week after a Moscow screening of the film “Rocketman.” The Moscow movie theater Pioner, noted for its adventurous programming, said it would ask for an...

A powerful Philadelphia labor leader says the government overreached in charging him with bribing a city councilman.

Nearly every incumbent in Philadelphia’s elected public offices faces a challenge to his or her seat in the May 21 municipal primary elections, which includes one of the most crowded fields in memory for the seven at-large City Council seats.

The deadline passed for candidates to turn in their petitions to enter the race for Philadelphia Mayor. As of right now, Mayor Jim Kenney will have competition in the primary.

The indicted union leader, John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty told reporters Friday following his first appearance in federal court that he will fight the charges while at the same time maintaining his position as influential leader of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98.

A day after being charged in a sweeping federal indictment as the political pawn of Philadelphia’s most powerful union leader, Philadelphia Councilman Bobby Henon introduced, via proxy, legislation that would “explore economic crimes and other unfair practices within the city’s construction industry.”

City Councilman Bobby Henon walked out of federal court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to corruption charges.

Philadelphia Union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, along with seven other people were indicted on corruption charges. Dougherty is accused of using his union’s money for personal expenses.

A man suspected of trying to steal a Magna Carta from its display case at Salisbury Cathedral has been arrested after he was wrestled to the ground by cathedral employees, British authorities said Friday. Wiltshire Police said cathedral alarms sounded Thursday afternoon in the southwestern English city when a person armed with a hammer tried to smash the glass box...

The last time the midsection of the East Coast stared down a hurricane like this, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds. Hurricane Florence could inflict the hardest hurricane punch North Carolina has seen in more than 60 years, with rain and wind of more than 130 mph (209 kph). North Carolina...

While Jennifer Garner was receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, with her parents and three children in attendance to support her, on the other side of town her soon-to-be ex-husband Ben Affleck was in need of help.

A former reality television show star is facing charges of fraud and identity theft after allegedly stealing and using a debit card from a man she allegedly visited for a prostitution date, authorities say.

More than 200 families across the country have gotten a heart-breaking call in the last few months since the FBI began using new fingerprint technology to resolve identity cases dating back to the 1970s....
Since launching the new effort in February, the FBI and local medical examiner offices have identified 204 bodies found between 1975 and the late 1990s. The cases...