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Nothing will erase her memory of the boyfriend she lost in the devastating Oakland warehouse fire.

An Alabama death row inmate coughed and heaved for about 13 minutes during his execution by lethal injection on Thursday night, AL.com reported.

CNN's Alexandra Field looks at the most common forms of execution used in the U.S. and how they can go wrong.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has been released from a hospital in New Zealand and is on a flight back to the United States, according to a tweet from his manager, Christina Korp.

The number of deaths from overdoses of illicit opioids rose sharply again in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.

Some people microchip their pets to ensure they're easily found when lost, but now a city in Japan wants to apply a similar approach to their elderly -- and they're turning to QR code stickers instead of microchips.

A difficult execution in Alabama this week is raising well-tread questions about the humanity and appropriateness of lethal injections.

Nearly half the kids at H.W. Good Elementary are from financially struggling families and who qualify for free and reduced school lunches.

Miami and the South Beach area have been declared free of locally transmitted Zika virus, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said during a press conference Friday.

When Alex Jinkinson was born in Lima, Peru, doctors marked "male" on her birth certificate. But she wasn't a boy.

Though the holiday season is a favorite for many people, crowded stores full of shoppers running for the last toy on the shelf can be stressful.

As the prospect began to sink in of losing access to free contraceptives if the health law is repealed or replaced, women have reportedly been racing to get IUDs or stockpile birth control pills before President Barack Obama leaves office.

Regular cannabis use delays the processing of visual information at its very beginning, in the retina, the results of a study published Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology suggest.

If you bought Publix Premium pancake and waffle mixes lately, you're going to want to check the box. Publix Super Markets is issuing a recall for some of those products after the supplier said a milk powder used in the mix may contain salmonella.

John Glenn, a former US senator and the first American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday, according to Ohio State University. He was 95.

These toys can record children's conversations and upload the recordings, all without parents' consent, consumer groups say.

For the first time since 1993, life expectancy in the United States has dropped significantly for the entire population, not just certain groups.

The nation's top doctor is sounding the alarm on e-cigarettes, especially when used by teens and young adults.