Photo from Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office A skull found on a California beach in 1993 has been identified as that of a woman who was reported missing in 1987, deputies said. Using DNA testing ...

A Blue Mounds woman accused of stabbing her mother to death last month reportedly told police just after the incident that she believed she was in a simulation or the film “The Matrix,” but later ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A $1 million cash bond was set for a woman accused of killing her mother in Blue Mounds, online court records show. Sierra Schoonover was charged with first-degree intentional ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A growing number of little mounds are appearing across the region of Yakutia in the Russian Far East. Known as "bylars" in the Yakut language, the tiny hillocks are no more than a metre high and ...

An investigation is underway following a seven-vehicle pileup north of the Twin Cities that killed one and injured multiple others Tuesday. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, troopers ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases. A growing ...

BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. (WKOW) — Prosecutors filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a woman accused in her mother's death. Sierra Schoonover, 31, of Blue Mounds, was charged with first-degree ...

An unidentified skull uncovered at a Hungarian basilica decades ago may belong to the legendary 15th century king Matthias Corvinus, a new study found. While further DNA tests are needed to confirm ...