What price do you put on a long life? The reason I ask is that I’m just back from vacationing in Hawaii, and the issue came up during a visit to Pearl Harbor (search). As I was touring the Arizona Memorial (search), underneath which lie some 1,100 entombed in the …

DENVER – Family and friends of a recently deceased gay woman are upset after a Denver-area church that was about to host her memorial service refused to show a video that included images of the woman kissing her fiancee. Gary Rolando, a chaplain contacted by the woman’s family, said Saturday’s …

A teenager who dressed up as a doctor and roamed the halls of a Florida hospital will not be charged, according to a spokesman with St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, police were called to St. Mary’s after a patient alerted staff at …

GUSTINE, Texas – Officials say two North Texas school administrators are on leave after elementary students were forced to pull down their pants in class in efforts to find out who left feces in the gym. Parents said the administrators separated the fourth and fifth grade boys from girls Monday …

LAKEWOOD, Calif. – An abandoned newborn has been found not far from a Southern California mall, and authorities believe a woman who said she witnessed the birth is the mother of the child. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officials said a passer-by who was looking for recycling items in Lakewood discovered …

PITTSBURGH – A pair of bald eagles being monitored on a live video feed has laid its first egg of the new breeding season. Camera operator PixController says the egg appeared around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the nest in Pittsburgh’s Hays neighborhood. A round-the-clock stream featuring the city’s beloved bald …

FRESNO, Calif. – Floyd and Violet Hartwig died holding hands at the end of a marriage lasting 67 years. Their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday that once the family sensed the couple was close to death, they pushed their two hospice beds together, gently joining their hands. Floyd went first, …

HONOLULU – The federal government will be paying a retired soldier $50,000 to settle his lawsuit over swallowing needles in a sandwich purchased at a Burger King on a Hawaii Army base. Clark Bartholomew, of Loudoun County, Virginia, filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming one needle pierced his tongue when …

FARMINGTON, Maine – A dumping case has police on the lookout for the person who has tossed more than 24 buckets of dirty diapers into the streams of Maine. The Maine Warden Service says more than two-dozen five-gallon buckets containing soiled diapers have been thrown into streams in Wilton and …

MONROVIA, Ind. – A central Indiana man wanted on a probation violation has been rescued by firefighters after he became wedged inside a wall of his home while trying to hide from police. Officials say Steven Shuler was trying to avoid arrest Monday when he squeezed down a narrow hole …