Hundreds of people gathered to say goodbye to the young dad who, with the help of his wife, penned a touching and humorous obituary for himself, identifying himself as Spider-Man earlier this week.

Parts of California are getting inundated with rain and flooding, the likes of which some residents say they haven't seen since the 1980s. But the state is still struggling with persistent drought that's left reservoirs well below normal.

Rumain Brisbon's mother was sobbing when she said she didn't want her son's death to be centered on race. She called for Phoenix police to have better training on the usage of deadly force.

Rapper Flavor Flav marched with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri and shared a message of peace and cooperation with the crowd.

NASA had cameras placed all around the launch site of the Orion spacecraft. Watch the liftoff from several different perspectives.

When four Denver police officers were hit by a runaway car during a march against the Ferguson grand jury decision, the local police union says some protestors cheered and chanted "hit him again."

The smoke has cleared in Ferguson, but the answer to one burning question remains hazy: Where was the National Guard on the night of the riots?

On the second attempt day, NASA successfully launched Orion from Cape Canaveral Friday morning. A future phase of the mission is to take astronauts first to an asteroid and eventually to Mars, possibly in the 2030s.

The family of Luke Somers, an American photojournalist taken hostage by al-Qaida in Yemen, posted a YouTube video pleading for his captors to spare him.