Soldier is a service dog for a student at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth. This year he is included in the students’ yearbook, and he posed like a pro.

A 7-month-old mixed pit bull pup named Rudolph, who survived an overcrowded shelter that tried to euthanize him, has found his forever home, an animal shelter official said Tuesday. In a Jan. 16 Facebook post, the Kings Harvest No Kill Pet Rescue Shelter in Davenport, Iowa, described the experience of “this adorable young man” at another shelter. That post has...

A trio of police officers paid for an accused shoplifter’s groceries rather than arresting her at a Manhattan Whole Foods.

Here comes the… controversy. Australian Kmart — which has no relation to U.S. Kmart — yanked a child bride Halloween costume after more than 500 people signed an online petition claiming that it normalizes sex trafficking. “A child bride costume currently exists on Kmart shelves in children’s sizes. Tell Kmart this is beyond inappropriate and offensive and that they have...

A 58-year-old registered nurse accused of helping a heartbroken man end his life pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge.

“The Casagrandes,” Nickelodeon’s new original animated series that centers around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long-awaited spin-off from the network’s popular animation series, “The Loud House,” premiered Monday and comes as more networks are taking chances on Latino-themed shows....

Nurses working at Monmounth Medical Center gave Benadryl to patients to “lighten the workload,” a lawsuit alleges

Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84.

A 12-year-old girl born with a degenerative brain malformation was given a traditional bat mitzvah.

A former nurse suspected in the killing of dozens of children will stand trial in January.

Zack the dog is a “Welcome Wagger” and every Thursday morning he and his handler make a big entrance and impression.

Hartford Public School students are back to class, and for many of them that also means back into the dental chair.

Several employees of a Florida nursing home have surrendered to face charges in connection with a power outage that led to the deaths of 12 patients after Hurricane Irma.

Former Whiting Forensic employee Michael Presnick will not face any prison time if he stays out of trouble the next two years.

A Hartford nurse spun into action on her way home from work when she saw an injured motorcyclist on the highway minutes after a crash that could have killed him.

Five months after a jury convicted him of multiple counts of patient cruelty, a former forensic nurse at our state’s maximum security psychiatric hospital has gone to prison.

It was a parent’s worst nightmare. In 1997, newborn Stewart Rembert was abducted from the hospital by a woman impersonating a nurse. The police and FBI were called in and a massive search began. But the story had a happy ending. Rembert was found 19 hours later in a box next to a restaurant dumpster in Tacoma, Washington, by a...

Three American adults drowned and two children were rescued from the water while vacationing in Turks and Caicos, island police said, NBC News reported. All three of the victims, whose bodies were recovered from the waters of Bambarra Beach in Middle Caicos, were from the Houston area, according to NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston. They were identified by family and...

Nine people were killed, including the gunman’s own sister, and at least 27 were injured after a gunman wearing body armor and armed with a rifle and high-capacity magazines opened fire on a line of people waiting to get inside Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton, Ohio’s Oregon District early Sunday morning. The suspected gunman was identified as 24-year-old Connor Betts,...