Baited mousetraps are landing in mailboxes around the country in the form of postcards and letters promising two round-trip airline tickets plus hotel room or a free cruise if you call a toll-free number right away.These award notices often include the names of major airlines and well-known hotels. But the real companies have nothing to do with the notices.These are invitations to a high-pressu...

Listen to the voice of God: Morgan Freeman was not actually sleeping during an early-morning interview on Wednesday. The 75-year-old actor was sitting next to Michael Caine during a chat with Seattle's FOX affiliate Q13, when he appeared to doze off as Caine spoke. The two were promoting their new film, "Now You See Me."But seeing is not believing, Morgan wrote on his Facebook page late on Thursda...

Burger King is serving up barbecue... at least for the summer.The fast food chain has created a collection of 13 items that celebrate the flavors of regional American barbecue that will only be available for the summer months.There are some parts new and some parts traditional, said Flavia Faugeres, Burger Kings global chief marketing officer. We went for all the American classics that you kno...

When Fox canceled "Arrested Development," fans were left with many unanswered questions regarding the fate of Michael Bluth and his crazy family. While the cast and crew have been reluctant to dish on details of the new episodes, the man behind Michael, Jason Bateman, recently told USA Today that the new season will not pick up where it left off."It's been what, seven years, and time has not been ...

Seven months after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on shoreline communities up and down the East Coast, a swath of sand near the tip of Long Island is proving its possible to bounce back from disaster.On Thursday, Stephen Leatherman, aka, "Dr. Beach," released his annual "Top 10 Beach List," giving Main Beach in East Hampton, N.Y., top honors, in large part because of how fast it rebounded from la...

Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested in her New York apartment Thursday night on charges of reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence and criminal possession of marijuana, NBC New York reported.The doorman of the building called police to report that Bynes was smoking marijuana in the lobby, sources told the station. Before officers arrived, Bynes, 27, had gone back to her 36th floor apartment, ...

In her first time back at the school since late Monday, Plaza Towers Elementary principal Amy Simpson recalled the moment the deadly tornado took aim at the school.I got on the intercom and said, It's here, Simpson told NBC's Kate Snow. At first, it's just a rattling, but then all of a sudden, bigger things. (I) could hear the air duct crash down and a pipe, and I could hear the other four l...

A Pakistan Airways passenger jet bound for the Manchester, England has been intercepted by fighter jets from Britains Royal Air Force after it sent an emergency radar signal to air traffic controllers,the U.K. Ministry of Defence said.Defence officials said fighter jets had been scrambled but the reason for the emergency signal was not immediately known."Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were ...

Seven months after being devastated by the worst storm in New Jersey history, most of the beaches and boardwalks of the Jersey Shore are back and open for business in time for Memorial Day weekend.Take that, Sandy. On TODAY Friday, Gov. Chris Christie strolled the rebuilt boardwalk with Matt Lauer in Seaside Heights, the famed ground zero for MTVs Jersey Shore and a town hit hard by the storm....

A driver said he thought he was about to die when an Interstate 5 bridge span collapsed in Washington state, plunging his pickup and another car into the Skagit River below.Dan Sligh, his wife and another motorist found themselves waist-deep in water when the freeway crumbled moments after the bridge was clipped by an oversized truck, he told NBC affiliate KING5 of Seattle.State officials said the...