American folklore

Local erects tombstone to protest removal of pavement stones in front of his shop in Turkey's north

A local who was angered by the removal of pavement stones in front of his shop has erected a tombstone to protest the municipality in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The municipality did not repave the stones it removed on July 19 to fix a burst water pipe on Fevzipaşa Street, in front of 38-year-old Korhan Kayhan's shop.

10 unsolved crimes & mysteries from the American Old West

The American West has long been a place for cowboys, gunslingers, and hidden treasure. However, there’s been questions about the true fate of certain outlaws along with other mysteries that have fascinated people for around a hundred years and that have never been solved or explained by modern historians.

Butch Cassidy’s Death

Two people killed, five injured in Istanbul gunfight

Two people died and five others were injured in a gunfight between two rival groups in Istanbul's Ka??thane district late April 13.

A group of men began shooting at the Ay????? (Moonlight) Association late April 13, in the Gültepe neighborhood of Ka??thane, when people from inside the association responded. The gunfight left two people dead and five injured. 

Missouri suburb braces for more racial unrest amid appeals for calm as second man killed

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, braced for another night of racially charged unrest on Aug. 19 as the governor and U.S. attorney general appealed for calm in the St. Louis suburb 10 days after the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.