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We hope House Bill 3006, authored by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will succeed. In Texas, air conditioning is not a luxury ...

After over half a century in prison, Robert Maudsley, known as 'Hannibal the Cannibal' and described as the UK's longest-serving and one-time most dangerous inmate, has found romance from behind bars.

The great white shark is among the most powerful and potentially dangerous predatory fish in the world, known for fatal attacks on swimmers, surfers, divers, kayakers, and small boats.

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) calls out some of these unsafe working conditions in their annual compliation of the most dangerous employers, the Dirty Dozen.

Park officials in Yosemite are warning visitors about what they say is “one of the most dangerous animals” in the park — and the unlikely culprit has neither fangs nor claws. Mule deer ...

SICK love letters from the UK's most ... most dangerous prisoner. But he has now been moved to HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire. He is on F wing in a unit specifically designed for inmates ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

The UK's longest serving prisoner once named as the most dangerous inmate in the country has been sending 'disturbing' love letters to his new girlfriend. The quadruple killer, known as "Hannibal ...

Snakes and spiders are the most dangerous wild animals in the Fayetteville area. Black widow and brown recluse spiders are dangerous, but rarely deadly. Copperheads are the most common venomous ...