Orange, Calif. – Children’s Hospital of Orange County says a child received surgery on the wrong body part this week but no permanent harm was done. The mistake is the third of its kind in four years and state regulators are investigating. A hospital statement says one of its surgeons …

WASHINGTON – Some economists think the nation will break a 23-month streak of job cuts and add to employment when the government issues the December labor report Friday. A majority of economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters still think the economy shed jobs in December — a modest loss of 8,000. …

JOLIET, Ill. – The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would kill her, even telling a neighbor days before her disappearance in 2007 that “I’m already dead,” according to testimony at a hearing on Monday. The neighbor sobbed uncontrollably at times as she …

MANILA, Philippines – An American man wanted in the Philippines for allegedly killing a government official’s son in a road-rage shooting was critically wounded Monday when he opened fire at police officers trying to arrest him, officials said. Two police agents also were wounded when authorities swooped down on Jason …

Less than a month after British researchers said a woman’s G-spot may not exist, French doctors are saying the erogenous zone is not a myth after all, London’s Daily Telegraph reported. A study from King’s College London, which was published earlier this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, included …

A United Airlines flight diverted back to Newark Liberty International Airport during a Rome, Italy bound flight because of a cabin pressurization issue, and dropped over 28,000 feet in 10 minutes. United Airlines Flight 510 took off from Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday at 8:37 p.m. heading to Rome, …

A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Riverview, Florida, on Saturday after he allegedly shot and killed his mother and left his mother’s boyfriend with multiple gunshot wounds, according to officials. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received numerous 911 calls just after 4 p.m. on Saturday regarding an incident in the …

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joked Monday that she would “wear a bikini” on the floor of the Senate following Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., directive that the body would no longer enforce a dress code for its members. Her comments were first reported by an NBC News reporter, but were …

New York Giants second-year linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux dismissed those he termed “social media GMs” who have criticized him to start the 2023 season. Thibodeaux has four tackles and a QB hit in the first two games and took some heat for sitting alone on the bench, far from his teammates, …

ORLANDO, Fla. – EXCLUSIVE — A high-profile defense attorney for disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh believes jurors were deaf to “very, very strong” evidence in favor of his innocence after sitting through weeks of damning testimony on unrelated fraud, theft and grift. “That jury had heard almost three weeks …