5-year-old girl vanishes from Utah home, uncle considered main suspect

Click:custom dog wedding cake topper A 5-year-old girl vanished from her Utah home over the weekend, and her uncle — whom cops consider the main suspect in the case — was arrested on a warrant for a probation violation, local police said. Elizabeth Jessica Shelley was last seen at her home by her mom aroundRead moreRead more

The fallen I remember

As the “Big Wars” fade into history, Memorial Day has progressively become less about memorializing and more about weenie roasts. One reason is the relatively low casualty rate from Iraq and Afghanistan. As a vet, I’m thankful for that — but no less determined to remember the fallen. And as a combat journalist, I’ve metRead moreRead more

What makes happy marriages, left and right

Leo Tolstoy famously wrote in “Anna Karenina” that “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A new report titled “The Ties That Bind: Is Faith a Global Force for Good or Ill in the Family?” from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution challenges Tolstoy’s wisdom.Read moreRead more

Tourist who died in gruesome shark attack was recently retired

The tourist killed in a shark attack in Hawaii over the weekend was a recently retired optometrist, family man and avid adventurer from California, friends said. Dr. Thomas Smiley, 65, of Granite Bay, was swimming about 60 yards from the shore near the Kaanapali Shores resort in Maui early Saturday when the shark set uponRead moreRead more

California congressman admits he\u2019s taken photo with dead enemy

SAN DIEGO — US Rep. Duncan Hunter of California acknowledged taking a photo with a dead combatant during his time as a Marine as he defended a Navy SEAL charged with multiple war crimes, including killing a teenage fighter. The Republican congressman, who was re-elected last November as he faces corruption charges, made the commentsRead moreRead more

Google is reportedly tracking your purchases through Gmail

Rack it up as one more way Google tracks your personal data. Any purchase you make that uses your Gmail account will be logged by Google, according to a discovery made recently by a Reddit user. The user uncovered that Google is keeping tabs on any purchase that uses your Gmail account. Google also tracksRead moreRead more

Amazon eyeing office space on Manhattan’s West Side

Amazon may have bid farewell to Queens, but it still “hearts” the Big Apple. After walking away from a deal to build a headquarters on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City, Amazon is back to shopping for office space on Manhattan’s West Side, sources tell The Post. The tech giant has been in talksRead moreRead more

Video of Capitals’ Evgeny Kuznetsov, white powdery substance emerges

Evgeny Kuznetsov said he has “nothing to hide” in response to a video that went viral Monday showing the Washington Capitals star sitting in a room near two lines of a powdery white substance spread onto a table. The video, posted by the Twitter account @Thesavspb with the caption, “So this is why we lostRead moreRead more

Meredith sells Sports Illustrated to Authentic Brands Group for $110M

Sports Illustrated over the decades has chronicled stellar match-ups, blow-outs, squeakers, sudden deaths and photo finishes. Now it’s getting ready to take on a whole new kind of game. Publisher Meredith Corp. has sold for $110 million the intellectual property around the venerable sports-news outlet to Authentic Brands Group, the brand-development company that manages JuicyRead moreRead more

Anaconda gives birth to two \u2018clones\u2019 without male

A female anaconda gave birth without the help of a male, according to the Massachusetts aquarium where it happened. Anna, an 8-year-old anaconda at the New England Aquarium in Boston, used the extremely rare reproductive strategy called parthenogenesis, which resulted in two living baby anacondas, a press release from the aquarium said. The 10-foot, 30-poundRead moreRead more