St John - Hurricane Maria slammed into the US Virgin Islands Tuesday, lashing the archipelago with rain as Puerto Rico braced for the Category Five storm's expected landfall on Wednesday.

A study from the scientific research company Abraxis and Boston University turned up information about the honey you put on your toast that isn't very sweet. Fifty-nine percent of the honey products they tested contained the herbicide glyphosate.

A dog-walker from Langley, B.C., near Vancouver, has been jailed for six months for killing six dogs in her care. Emma Paulsen left them in her truck with the windows closed on a very hot day last May.

In yet another indicator Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will fight in 2015, the L.A. Times reports a boxing official involved in negotiations between the two camps told them a deal is "making progress." The fight, it seems will go in May or June.

The father of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Floyd Mayweather Sr., once a pro boxer himself, said that he's spoken with his son since the murder-suicide of Earl Hayes and Stephanie Moseley. He said his son is dealing with it as best he can.

If you're planning on stealing valuable items from someone's home, anything, jewelry, paintings, oh say, guns, here's a tip: don't post photos of the stolen items on your Facebook page. No particular reason not to, except that the owner might see them.

A study out of Denmark seems to have found something good can come out of a high-fat diet. The study was conducted while looking at the effects of a high-fat diet on Cockayne syndrome, a premature aging disease.

Richard Branson, billionaire founder of the Virgin Galactic space program, has vowed to push on after a crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another. He added they would not "push on blindly" but first find out what went wrong.

St. Petersburg - More than a dozen species of corals are the newest addition to the Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Announced on Tuesday. The listing of 20 species is the largest Endangered Species Act ruling ever.

Jennifer O'Neill is a former assistant to pop star Lady Gaga who appears to be on her way to being a rich former assistant to pop star Lady Gaga. Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, say they will publish a book by O'Neill about Gaga.

Yes once again the World Naked Bike Ride is hitting the streets of our planet. The WNBR is a political event about the dangers of vehicle emissions and it seeks to raise awareness of sustainable energy issues; it's also a quest for positive body image.

Officer Stephen Stem shot and killed an armed 93-year-old woman in Hearne, Texas last Tuesday, and days later the city's council voted to fire him. Now Mr. Stem's lawyer has weighed in, noting the circumstances of the shooting weren't taken into account.

Forget .com or .net or any of the generic web addresses, they're now passe for businesses and other organizations in New York City. As of today New Yorkers can apply to have an '.nyc' web address.

You will have to look at it yourself, but a man called Mr. Lamont uploaded a video to YouTube that he says he believes to be of a Sasquatch, of Bigfoot. The mythical creature hasn't been proven to exist and this video likely won't change that.

It may not be much to hope for but officials leading the efforts to rescue missing ferry passengers, most of them high-school students, are hoping "air pockets" in the sunken ship are keeping some alive. As many as 268 are still missing.

The state of New York's governor has taken aim at ads on New York City's subways that seek to drum up boob job business. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had Howard Glaser, his director of state operations, write the Metro Transit Authority about ceasing the ads.

Media reports say the FBI agent who killed a man while interrogating him on the Boston bombings has been cleared of any wrongdoing. The New York Times said that sources say he was cleared "by a prosecutor in Florida and by an F.B.I. internal review."

A new online poll of heart attack and stroke victims conducted by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation has found that over half of the respondents are not making the changes needed to ensure their health. The reason? Poor motivation.

After Canadian singer Justin Bieber's recent shenanigans, arguably his most serious, a petition to deport him appeared on the 'We the People' page of the White House's website. If successful, such a petition can force the government into a response.

Justin Bieber and his entourage, for this trip including his mentor, Usher and manager Scooter Braun, have decamped to Panama. While the Grammys were on — he was not nominated this year — Bieber and co. were on a Panamanian beach.