PBT: That's how Dwight Howard described the Lakers' season, which started with title hopes and mercifully ended after months of frustration Sunday night.

Not getting enough sleep may harm men’s sperm, a new study from Denmark says.

PBT: The Heat made quick work of the Bucks, cruising to a Game 4 victory to sweep Milwaukee.

The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space.

When the gleaming South Ferry subway terminal in Lower Manhattan opened in 2009, it came with a vast concourse filled with public art installations of wrought iron and smoked glass, polished white walls—and a hefty $500 million price tag.

Dealing with misinformation on the Internet is never easy. In fact, if you're not careful, you can end up spreading it yourself.

For most of his life, Jonny Hickey was quiet and withdrawn — but not anymore. Here is the story of how a mistreated dog and a misunderstood boy found, and rescued, each other.

Authorities in the Northern California town of Valley Springs are searching for an intruder who killed a 9-year-old girl at her house.

Get a rare glimpse of artifacts from Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried under ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, on display in a blockbuster exhibit at London’s British Museum. NBC News’ Carol Marquis and Richard O'Kelly report. (NBC News)

When Tower Records, a hallowed music store chain with a 46-year history, shuttered its doors at the end of 2006, The Nation called it "the day the music died." Some cried murder, blaming iTunes and the digital music revolution it fueled.

More than one month since his election, Pope Francis is winning new fans and drawing big crowds to the Vatican.

Police say they are not ruling out the possibility that a 5-foot-long chunk of airplane debris found near the World Trade Center site could have been placed there deliberately.

A webcam perched atop the nest of two American bald eagles and their baby eaglets, in Humboldt Bay, Calif., delights nearly 300,000 online fans with nonstop, live streaming video. (Nightly News)

A gym teacher at a Catholic school in Ohio claims she was fired after 19 years on the job because her mother’s obituary, published in a local newspaper, revealed that she has a lesbian partner. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports. (Nightly News)

A mother, two of her daughters and two other children died early Saturday in a house fire outside Atlanta, authorities said. The only survivor was an 11-year-old girl who escaped after the mother woke her up and told her to run.

Four American service members died Saturday when their plane crashed in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. military official said.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had surgery on his right shoulder Saturday to repair a fracture he suffered in a fall from his bicycle a day earlier in Washington, the court said.

The Federal Aviation Administration will suspend all employee furloughs and return air traffic facilities to their regular staffing levels by Sunday evening, according to a statement released on Saturday.

The mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was placed in a U.S. terror database in the fall of 2011, a counterterrorism official confirmed to NBC News.

A wartime edict to entice immigrants to join the military in exchange for rapid naturalization has created 83,000 new American citizens. But some critics see outsourcing of U.S. combat jobs.

A Tupelo, Miss. man has been arrested in connection with the ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and a U.S. senator, police said Saturday. Everett Dutschke was arrested in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning by federal agents, NBC News affiliate WTVA reported.

Rotoworld: Matt Barkley was the first pick off the board, going to Philadelphia in the fourth round, as teams conclude the NFL draft with Rounds 4-7.

PBT: Once again, Miami faced a fired-up foe — this time Orlando — only to follow LeBron James on a big run and pull away in the second half to win handily.