The father of a 4-year-old is being hailed as a hero for getting his child away from a cougar attack on a popular trail in ...

Finchdale Priory volunteers suggest the model sword may have been put there by a Harry Potter fan.

A sword found stuck in a tree trunk near a 13th Century priory could have been put there by a Harry Potter fan, volunteers have theorised. A walker heading for Finchale Priory in Durham from the ...

Here’s a stunning house somewhere in South Carolina. Identify it and tell us why it’s special. If you have a good mystery stumper to share with fellow readers, send to: feedback ...

Gardening Ask the Gardener: Cracking the mystery of falling trees Extreme heat and stress can lead to structural damage. What you can do to prevent it. A large tree split in half and landed on a ...

Dollar Tree is raising prices to $1.50 on some items that used to cost $1.25. Employees are putting red stickers over items to note the change.

OLYMPIC HOCKEY SCHEDULES: Women | Men All of the Group A teams — the world’s five highest-ranked teams — automatically qualify for the quarterfinals and will be seeded based on their group results. In ...

A New Hampshire ecologist has discovered male satiny willows growing along the Connecticut River in the North Country. The sighting is a clue in a yet unsolved mystery.

But his feat also set in motion a decades-old mystery, about a unique gift Owens and other Olympic champions received from Hitler. In 1936, the German Olympic Committee gave athletes an oak ...

A: It sounds to me like you’ve stumbled upon a black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia). This tree is a relative of the tree that you are most familiar with — a purple robe locust — which is ...

The chain-saw attack on trees in and around downtown Los Angeles came with multiple mysteries. One: Who did it? Two: Just how many trees were lost in this rampage? Three: What was the motive for ...