Bhubaneswar: A 5-foot-long rat snake was rescued after locals spotted the reptile with its head stuck inside an abandoned beer can in Patia area of Bhubaneswar. Some local youths spotted the snake ...

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Scientists have some good news for rats and some bad news for city dwellers. Rat populations are rising in cities including Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, reports a study released Friday ...

Missouri basketball was on the road in front of a sold-out, notoriously raucous crowd. On that road trip, Mizzou was facing a top-15 team. And a top-15 team, no less, that the Tigers hadn’t ...

Missouri has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

Monday’s rankings mark a new high for the Dennis Gates era. For the first time since Gates took the Missouri basketball job, and for the first time in almost exactly four years, Missouri ...

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Compiled by Jeremy Engle Is there a goal you’d like to pursue by doing ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

Rats are usually unwelcome visitors in our gardens – they are generally considered vermin and can spread potentially serious diseases, including Leptospirosis, which can lead to Weil’s disease. They ...