Danny Trejo's roles in movies like "Heat" and "Con Air" have nothing on his early years of drug dealing in Los Angeles and boxing in San Quentin prison.

Over the last 20 years, the American bumblebee has seen a staggering decline in population due to habitat loss, disease, and pesticides.

French nobleman Gilles de Rais is remembered both as a war hero and as a serial killer who was executed for killing more than 100 children in the early 1400s.

While the suspect was already being arrested on child rape charges, he is now facing additional counts of racial discrimination and illegal possession of firearms.

When seven-year-old Brittany Renee Williams vanished in 2000, she was presumed dead. But now a woman says she has the scars and DNA tests to prove she is Williams.

From the Five Families of New York to the organized crime syndicates of Boston, these notorious hitmen made killing a lucrative trade.

On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly boarded a plane with Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson near Clear Lake, Iowa. Just minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed.

The boy is probably the first to touch the tooth in thousands of years, according to a local paleontology museum collection manager.

Starting on November 23, 1966, New York City was plagued by three days of suffocating smog in what remains one of the worst air pollution episodes and environmental disasters in American history.

Perhaps no pagan deity was as reviled as Moloch, a god whose cult reportedly sacrificed children in a furnace set inside the belly of a bronze bull.

The Vinland Map, formerly dated to the 15th century, was believed to be the oldest European depiction of the Americas.