A Facebook fight that started three weeks ago among high school girls in Birmingham, Ala., turned deadly Friday evening when the teenagers took the cyber quarrel to the park and gunfire erupted, police say. One of the girls, 14, died from gunshot wounds and two others are in the hospital, but expected to recover, authorities…

Anthony Mason, a onetime popular New York Knick who represented the city’s scrappy teams of the 1990s, died Saturday morning, according to the Washington Post. He was 48. Mason, who also played with the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat, was hospitalized this month in Atlanta for treatment of congestive heart failure and underwent several procedures,…

A 29-year-old Phoenix man is raising his quadruplets after his wife died tragically last month after delivering the three girls and a boy she reportedly had worked hard to conceive, according to People magazine. Carlos Morales told his wife, Erica, 36, that he loved her just minutes before she gave birth to quadruplets who were…

In a show of political gamesmanship, the U.S. House of Representatives late Friday approved a one-week spending measure to avert a partial shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Reuters reports. With just hours to spare before a midnight deadline, the news outlet writes, the House voted 357-60 to fund DHS, which is headed…

Ten former waiters at a New York TGI Fridays are accusing the franchise of racism and colorism, saying that when their location closed, the company hired “light-skinned workers” who were mostly Hispanic to replace them at the new location, according to the New York Daily News. The waitstaff at the closed Manhattan location was told to…

I am a sophomore at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. My older sister and I are currently taking a sociology class here at Clarion and we have a project due in March where we have to create a family tree. The only problem is that we do not know our family’s history. My father comes from…