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A local California government destroyed a geological marvel, without even knowing it. For years, geologists, science classes, and "geopilgrims" ventured to a split in a sidewalk curb in Hayward, California. Two sections of sidewalk have been slowing drifting askew for several decades, creating a striking visual portrayal of something geologists call creep. The curb sits on the Hayward fault, one of seven significant faults in the San Francisco Bay area. It runs nearly parallel to the more famous San Andreas fault, and is considered part of that "fault system." The system forms the boundary of the North American and Pacific plates. Creep is the slow steady movement of earth along the fault, in

The appetite for U.S. real estate continues to flourish, but international buyers are shifting their sights from luxury to less-pricey properties. "Weaker economic growth throughout the world, devalued foreign currencies and financial market turbulence combined to present significant challenges for foreign buyers over the past year," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The number of properties purchased, however, rose 2.8 percent to 214,885.

Karnig Ohannessian, a deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, pulled the gun on partygoers in Fairfax, Virginia, last month, claiming the young men were drunk and causing a ruckus in front of his house. “I can shoot the f*** out of you guys right now,” he’s heard saying in the video. Ohannessian is a high-ranking official at the Pentagon, and has received two prestigious civilian service awards.

There was a good reason Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson retired at age 30, not that we couldn’t have figured it out months ago. Johnson detailed some of his injury history to ESPN’s “E:60,” and discussed the things he had to do to stay on the field during his nine NFL seasons. The most startling revelation was that he believes he and other NFL players suffer a concussion as frequently as “every third play.” What makes that so scary is Johnson was never officially diagnosed with a concussion in his career.

Commodity investors generally agree that the oil market is coming into balance , but huge stockpiles of fuel and teeming strategic Chinese crude inventories could send prices on one last, ugly slide lower, analysts tell CNBC. On Wednesday, oil futures were down more than 1 percent, following a nearly 5 percent slide Tuesday, on worries that Britain's vote to leave the European Union would slow economic growth and dent crude oil demand. Oil markets at least briefly appeared to be oversupplied by about 350,000 barrels of crude per day last week, based on an average of major investment bank estimates, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at oil price information firm OPIS.