Today in history: New Year's Eve

Throwback Thursday: A look back at events in history on New Year's Eve

• Dec 31, 2015
• 19 photos

Parents find unique way to inspire cancer survivor daughter

Give 2 year old warm and fuzzy gift sure to warm hearts -- one facing same challenge as tot

• Dec 31, 2015

4 teens killed in crash near Indianapolis

Five other people injured; police point to striking contrast between those who lived and those who died

• Dec 31, 2015

​Rescue crews race against rising floodwaters in Midwest

At least 21 deaths in Missouri and Illinois are being blamed on flooding, mostly involving vehicles that drove onto swamped roadways

• Dec 31, 2015

What's next for "Affluenza" teen and mom after capture

It could be weeks before 18-year-old who used "affluenza" defense after fatal drunk driving crash is returned to U.S.

• Dec 31, 2015

Friend of San Bernardino shooter indicted on gun, terror charges

Enrique Marquez charged with conspiring in previous plots and making false statements when he bought the guns used in deadly shootings

• Dec 30, 2015

"Potty watch" policy ended in one Los Angeles County Jail

Inmates were chained to walls until they expelled contraband from their bodies, sometimes for up to 11 hours

• Dec 30, 2015

Sisters raise $10 million in 10 years for military families

The girls were not yet in their teens when they concocted their idea to thank veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

• Dec 30, 2015

St. Louis area under siege as workers battle inexorable flooding

Flood waters are rising more than one inch per hour in neighborhoods in the St. Louis metro area, and 19 levees might be at risk

• Dec 30, 2015

Chicago mayor calls for Tasers, training after police shootings

One critic said the problem is racism, ignorance, no respect for human beings: "...Tasers will kill, the guns will kill, ignorance will kill"

• Dec 30, 2015

Study: Nearly 1 billion trees threatened by Calif. drought

After four years of drought, a staggering number of California's trees are dying

• Dec 30, 2015

Bill Cosby: "America's Dad" falls from grace

Thirty years ago, the idea of Bill Cosby being charged with a sex crime would have been unfathomable

• Dec 30, 2015

Bill Cosby's accusers

Dozens of women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, and some of drugging them, with the incidents dating back decades

• Dec 30, 2015
• 27 photos

Inside the Cosby-Constand criminal report

Criminal complaint released Wed. details 2004 incident that resulted in first criminal charges against the once- beloved actor and comedian

• Dec 30, 2015

Brothers charged in 1983 beating death of Ill. man

The victim, whose naked, gagged and battered body was found tied up in rural Illinois decades ago, reportedly died of blunt force trauma to the head

• Dec 30, 2015

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