A former nurse for Stephen Hawking was banned from practicing after regulators found she did not provide adequate care the late theoretical physicist.
Author: Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
YouTube to ban comments on most videos with minors amid concerns of child exploitation
YouTube, owned by Google parent company Alphabet,began disabling comments last week on “tens of millions of videos” with possible predatory behavior.
Edda the pug, sold on eBay, is caught in middle of legal battle between family, buyer and German town
A German town was already facing backlash for seizing a family’s prize pug Edda and selling it on eBay. Now, the pooch’s buyer is threatening to sue.
Twitter rips PETA for criticizing Steve Irwin’s Google doodle on the late conservationist’s birthday
Steve Irwin would have turned 57 on Friday, and to honor “The Crocodile Hunter” host, Google changed the logoits search page, which PETA criticized.
Not seen for 100 years, a rare Galápagos tortoise was considered all but extinct – until now
An adult femaleFernandina Giant Tortoise was found on the Galápagos Island of Fernandina after more than 100 years without a confirmed sighting.
Texas dad faces felony for slapping stepdaughter’s 12-year-old bully, police say
James Peace, 37, allegedly slapped the boy “with such severity” that it knocked his headphones out of his ear, police in Deer Park, Texas, say.
From discovering water to snapping selfies: The lasting memories of Mars rover Opportunity
NASA announced Wednesday the Mars rover was deemed dead after it hadn’t communicated in over eight months. Here are some of its greatest discoveries
Substitute teacher resigns after telling class Martin Luther King Jr. killed himself
Lisa Luten, the communications director for Wake County public schools in North Carolina, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that the teacher resigned.
Cold case: After 30 years, mother arrested in killing of missing 3-year-old son
Francillon Pierre, 3, first went missing in 1986 after his mother Amy Elizabeth Fleming, 60, reported he disappeared at a Las Vegas swap meet.
Two endangered tigers were supposed to mate. But it turned deadly instead, zoo says
Sumatran tigers Asim andMelati were being introduced with hopes they would mate in the future when, instead, Asim killedMelati, the London Zoo said.