Woe continues on for Penn State Football coach Jerry Sandusky. Only hours after he underwent the sex abuse trial, the coach’s adopted son, Matt Sandusky, revealed that he had been “a victim of Jerry Sandusky’s abuse” too and offered to testify against his adoptive father. It is not clear whether prosecutors were going to put […]
A mother of a 6-year-old boy named Aiden Neely says her son was slapped by each of his classmates twice on the orders of their teacher as a form of discipline. The boy was accused of being a naughty bully at his school, Salinas Elementary School, near San Antonio, Texas. His kindergarten teacher came up […]
Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down the sentence during a […]
Two U.S. students stranded in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm hiked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meager supplies of food and warming themselves in hot springs. Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to the city of Christchurch on Monday after meeting up with members […]
The founder and leader of a Georgia megachurch — who was arrested last week on charges of choking his teenage daughter, slamming her into the ground and hitting her with a shoe — told churchgoers on Sunday that he did not beat her. “The truth is, she was not choked, she was not punched,” Creflo […]
Eduardo Saverin, Facebook co-founder, drew public attention and ire last month following the revelation that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move widely seen to dodge taxes. Yet thousands of wealthy foreigners are lining up to replace him, making investments here and putting themselves on a path to citizenship in the process. The State […]
When the tsunami hit Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents. One floated up on a nearby island. Two have not been seen again. But one made […]
Sometimes animals have more “heart” than humans. A farm dog in Ghana was declared a hero after spending a night protecting an abandoned newborn human. Authorities say the dog was found under a bridge in Winkongo, which is near Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional Capital of Ghana, with the tiny baby snuggled against him. A […]
In the final tragic moments before Air France Flight 447crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, it took the captain of the plane, who was on a scheduled break, more than a minute to return to the cockpit, despite his two co-pilots’ frantic calls for help, black box recordings revealed. Although it was never revealed […]
Scientist Neil Hammerschlag was out cruising the reefs near the Florida Keys, hunting for sharks for research aimed at keeping them out of display cases and in the water. In many places, these iconic predators are becoming extinct. Hammerschlag, a research assistant professor at the University of Miami, and the director of its R. J. […]
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