A 14-year-old boy from Ohio says he is lucky to have a second life after he was swallowed up by a sewer drain pipe and carried 1,500 feet by rising waters. Jeff LaPorta suffered scrapes and bruises on his legs and received six stitches in his arm, but that only tells a part of his […]
The NFL Players Association is investigating the relationship between agent Drew Rosenhaus and a former financial adviser who persuaded a number of players to invest in a failed Alabama bingo casino, a source with knowledge of the inquiry told Yahoo! Sports. According to multiple sources who talked to Y! Sports on the record and for […]
A 33-year-old hiker is in stable condition at a Salt Lake City hospital after he was trapped in a drainage tunnel in the foothills east of the city for four days and three nights. Daniel Samuelsen said he fell into the tunnel, near the mouth of Parleys Canyon, and broke his leg during a hike […]
Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. “My family is split up,” said Angela Serpas, from severely […]
Tapping into an outpouring of public interest, the White House on Saturday made its beer recipes public – giving hope to any Americans interested in having a hair of the first dog after joining the coalition of the swilling. Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for the Healthy Food Initiative, […]
An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck off the Philippine archipelago on Friday destroying roads and bridges and sending people fleeing to higher ground in fear of a tsunami. The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles (146 km) off the town of Guiuan in Samar Province at a depth of about 20 miles (32 […]
Isaac made landfall Tuesday night on the southeastern Louisiana coast as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 mph. Arriving on the eve of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Isaac is the first hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast since Ike in 2008. Now, Isaac’s core is expected to pass west of New Orleans […]
Mitt Romney is still preparing his speech at an elementary school near his vacation home in Wolfeboro, N.H., but he’s already giving hints about what he will say Thursday night when he accepts the GOP nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. In an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page, Romney says his wife, […]
Based on the New York Times report on Saturday, US prosecutors are looking into whether British bank HSBC was involved in laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and moving cash for Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorists. Furthermore, the investigators were also probing whether HSBC circumvented US law by transferring money through its American […]
Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut, died Saturday at 82. Armstrong’s moonwalk is one of those events that brought the world together; most people who are old enough to have seen it can tell you exactly where they were when it happened. “His one small step will inspire generations to come,” said space shuttle astronaut […]
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