Seventeen miners stuck 900 feet underground at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere were rescued Thursday morning, ending a frantic ordeal that officials said began about 10 hours earlier when an elevator got stuck on its way to the mine’s floor. Mark Klein, a spokesman for Cargill… Read More
Baby giraffe dies after freak zoo accident
Officials at Zoo Miami say a young giraffe has been euthanized after suffering an apparent spinal injury. Zoo spokesman Ron Magill told The Miami Herald that the 9-month-old giraffe, Wesley, poked his head between two posts Tuesday to look into an area where another giraffe was being examined by keepers. Officials… Read More
Bill Cosby escapes charges in California
Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside his home near… Read More
Shower curtain call! NYC play to be set in hotel room
A play that imagines what it might have been like had Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Sen. Joe McCarthy met in a hotel room in 1953 will make its New York debut next month — in a hotel room. The innovative theater company Defibrillator, based in Britain, will… Read More
Holy burrito! Chipotle facing criminal charges after outbreak
Chipotle said it has been subpoenaed as part of a federal criminal investigation and that sales plummeted 30 percent in December after a series of food scares at its restaurants. The company said in a regulatory filing it was asked to produce a broad range of documents tied to a… Read More
Out-of-control coach suspended for head-butting referee
A Langhorne, Pennsylvania high school basketball coach who apparently head-butted a referee during a game has been put on leave. Videos posted online show Neshaminy High School boys basketball coach Jerry Devine confronting a referee Tuesday night after he disagreed with a foul call. The team was trailing Pennsbury High… Read More
School bus makes unplanned stop… in a sinkhole!
Baltimore County police say a school bus carrying high school students got stuck in a sinkhole that opened up after a water main break, but the students got off safely. Police said in social media posts that the bus carrying Dulaney High School students got stuck Wednesday morning in Cockeysville,… Read More
Travesty of justice! Sheriff orders prized whiskey destroyed
Prized bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon that were spirited away by a whiskey-theft ring in Kentucky might end up being destroyed rather than auctioned off, a sheriff said Wednesday. Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton backed off his suggestion that 28 bottles of the prestigious Pappy Van Winkle brand be… Read More
Rivals attack as Chris Christie rises in New Hampshire
Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate on the move in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the New Jersey governor’s rivals. Marco Rubio’s backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according to filings with federal election regulators. That follows a Christie-themed mailing earlier this week… Read More
Real-life Lassie saves the day in Massachusetts
It was a scene straight out of an episode of “Lassie.” Police in Orange, Massachusetts say a dog approached an officer on Tuesday barking frantically and then led the officer across a field and down an icy, 30-foot embankment, where the dog’s canine companion had become entangled in the undergrowth…. Read More