A truck and a bus transporting retirees on a day trip collided and caught fire Friday in wine country in southwest France, killing 42 people and badly injuring four others, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest road accident in more than 30 years. An image released by BFM television… Read More
One Philadelphia voter will win THIS incredible prize
Philadelphia voters now have extra incentive to go to the polls: They could win $10,000. The editor of The Philadelphia Citizen on Thursday announced an election lottery. Larry Platt says one random voter will win the money November 3, when residents vote for mayor. The prize aims to reverse abysmal… Read More
One dead, three wounded over college dice game?!
One man was killed and three women were wounded in an on-campus shooting stemming from a fight over a dice game on the campus of Tennessee State University, police said Friday. The 19-year-old who died in the Thursday night shooting was not enrolled at the school, police spokesman Don Aaron… Read More
[Must See] Wild beavers parachuting into Idaho!
Furs away! More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers… Read More
Organ recipients meet donors who saved their lives
For the surgeons, it was just a donation chain linking three patients from three Michigan hospitals to three strangers willing to give them working kidneys. For the people involved, though, it meant a second chance for three lives. Thursday, they got a chance to meet their life-saving donor swap partners…. Read More
Thrusters fired! The next step in deep space exploration
The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons was programmed to fire its thrusters Thursday afternoon, putting it on track to fly past a recently discovered, less than 30-mile-wide object out on the solar system… Read More
Sold! Compound from armed standoff hits auction block
Two New Hampshire properties — including a 100-acre compound at the center of a 2007 armed standoff with federal agents that featured underground escape routes — were finally sold at auction Thursday. The auction punctuated a two-year effort to sell the properties belonging to tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown,… Read More
Another one bites the dust! Democratic candidate drops out
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced Friday he would end his quixotic Democratic presidential campaign after failing to gain traction against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. “After much thought I have decided to end my campaign for president today,” Chafee said in prepared remarks at a women’s forum held… Read More
Beauty queen arrives to help class “study”
There she is, Miss America… in class! Former Miss America Kate Shindle has become the subject of an Ivy League classroom. A Brown University class being offered for the first time this fall is giving students the opportunity to examine how and why pageantry and femininity have become linked in… Read More
[Horn Exclusive] The secret reason Biden CAN’T run
Vice President Joe Biden’s long awaited announcement yesterday that he won’t seek the presidency wasn’t as big of a surprise to many Democratic bosses as they’d like you to think. While the media will busy themselves analyzing what happened, there’s a secret behind Biden’s decision that ought to have voters fuming. Biden… Read More