5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (351+ words) Flaky, golden crust. Apple juices bubbling through its vents. The scent of cinnamon. Apple pie is my comfort food, and the only thing my family always cooks together: rolling the dough, fluting the crust's edges, peeling and chopping the apples....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (754+ words) BUNIA, Congo -- Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo's Ituri province, the epicenter of history's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they dig…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1240+ words) NEW YORK -- When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1756+ words) When Simon's wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he'd died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Almost immediately he met Emily. But over the next…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (683+ words) Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Upper Pottsgrove Police Cpl. Sean Farrell, 58, is charged in the Aug. 23 death of Glenwood Earl Pysher IV. The prosecutor said the officer had less-than-lethal options and did not need to resort to shooting Pysher…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (272+ words) KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses, as Ukraine reels from attacks with jet-powered…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (400+ words) QUITO, Ecuador -- Franklin Ochoa says that since losing his eyesight 16 years ago, he has started to take on new adventures that he hadn't thought of when he could see, and it's all thanks to a bicycle club. Every Sunday, a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- With screams and giggles, whipping ponytails and white-knuckle grips, Minnesota fairgoers are taking delight in the magic of the Tilt-A-Whirl ride as it turns 100 years old. Valerie Nelson, a Minnesota native who returned to her home state…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (480+ words) Bunol, Spain -- Thousands of revelers -- including many lured by a Bollywood film -- descended on a small Spanish town on Wednesday for the annual La Tomatina food fight, where they painted Bunol red with tons of overripe tomatoes. Loaded trucks plodded…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (930+ words) YORK, Maine -- As a morning fog lifted over Maine's York River, Mike Masi and his two interns stood on a dock sorting through a mound of one of the region's most despised crabs and hoped to find a few that…...