Gordon Van Leuven wasn't a fan of blind dates, but in 1945 a night at a local roller rink changed his mind. The Mead High School senior didn't have much time for fun.

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, Mark Anthony Taylor, 54, of Jefferson, was traveling north on Frank Dillard Road when he traveled off the road to the left, went over an embankment and into a creek.

A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service said. A gunman shot by a U.S. Secret Service officer outside the White House remained in critical condition in a Washington hospital Saturday, one day after the shooting, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a deal to sign the two-time Cy Young Award wi... A high-flying drone that will be used to test precision agriculture methods made its inaugural flight Friday in North Dakota amid handshakes and smiles from aircraft operators and farm officials. The death of a young black woman in a stolen car proved to be the last in a series of shootings and racially tinged scandals that finally led to the resignation of San Francisco's police Chief Greg Suhr.

A high-flying drone that will be used to test precision agriculture methods made its inaugural flight Friday in North Dakota amid handshakes and smiles from aircraft operators and farm officials. A high-flying drone that will be used to test precision agriculture methods made its inaugural flight Friday in North Dakota amid handshakes and smiles from aircraft operators and farm officials.

"Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God," her obituary said. One of her sons wrote that opening line as a joke and a way for her children to carry on her sense of humor, according to the Associated Press.

"This is a powerful strike against the cheats," IOC President Thomas Bach said. "They show once again that dopers have no place to hide."

The daughter of key Black Lives Matter figure Eric Garner died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack. "She was a warrior to the end.