Four inmates, including the leader of a violent gang that abducted and killed the son of a former Honduran president, escaped from prison on Tuesday.

According to Rafael Castro, the inmates all used makeshift saws to cut the bars to their cells and used the sound of the rain to disguise the noise of the escape. However, he also stated that some of the guards may have helped in the escape.

Daphne, AL (AHN)-Concerned about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their safe return as a strong thunderstorm ripped through Baldwin County, Alabama.

After saying 'Amen,' the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire, and the 65-year-old Brown says she is blessed to be alive.

A Kenyan woman suffering from starvation placed a curse on God and then died in her sleep.

Local newspapers said Thursday that the women invoked a potent tribal curse from the Kamba community, which is located in the drought-stricken Kangundo district, reports Reuters.

Groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, whose stand-up routines about race, sex and life made him a modern day icon, is dead. He was 65.

Pryor died after being rushed to a hospital from his home shortly after 8 a.m. Pryor had suffered from multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system.

A German man was saved from the jaws of a garbage crusher because the driver stopped to urinate.

The 47-year-old had been drinking heavily when he fell asleep in a garbage container, police said Wednesday. It was then tipped into the hydraulic press of a garbage truck, reports Reuters