Niraj Chokshi

George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, and the case sparked a nationwide debate and protests over "stand your ground" laws and race relations in the United States.

For three days, three men were stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island. A Navy plane spotted the men waving life jackets, standing next to palm leaves arranged to spell out four capital letters: H-E-L-P.

A visit to the dentist will not, of course, fix all of your problems, but places where people have good dental health also tend to be places where they report being generally fulfilled.

Florida authorities have arrested a man accused of throwing a live alligator he found along a road through a restaurant's drive-through window.

The Tennessee couple who bought one of the three grand prize-winning Powerball tickets plans to return to work on Monday. Because, well, "why not?"

The prosecutor said he believes the officers involved were reasonable in their belief that Rice had a real weapon, and that new analysis of the video of the shooting leaves it "indisputable" that the boy was pulling the weapon from his waistband when he was killed.