A warning from travel experts – a stronger economy and lower gas prices mean Thanksgiving travelers can expect more congested highways this year. During the long holiday weekend, 46.9 million Americans are expected to go 50 miles or more from home, the highest number since 2007, according to travel agency… Read More
Kitty Genovese’s killer denied parole
The man convicted of killing New York City bartender Kitty Genovese has been denied parole more than half a century after a crime that became a symbol of urban breakdown, officials said Tuesday. Citing “the extreme violence you exhibited and callous disregard” for Genovese, a parole board turned down Winston… Read More
Incredible face transplant gives burned firefighter a second chance
A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday. The surgery took place in August at the NYU Langone Medical Center. The patient, 41-year-old Patrick Hardison, is still… Read More
Warning! Severe weather front to SLAM parts of US
A wintry blast of air is expected to bring severe cold weather to parts of the Western United States this week. The cold front has already whipped up a damaging tornado in Central California and hit the Los Angeles area with gusts topping 70 mph, forecasters said. Drivers in Southern California… Read More
MTV star dies
Vincent Margera, known to MTV viewers as “Don Vito” from the series “Viva La Bam” and “Jackass,” has died. He was 59. His sister-in-law, April Margera, says he’d been in and out of a suburban Philadelphia hospital since spring, suffering from liver and kidney failure. She says he died Sunday… Read More
Hillary’s 9/11 statement causes uproar
Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday defended her donations from Wall Street by saying she worked to help the financial sector rebuild after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and sought to address the abuses that led to an economic crisis. During the second Democratic debate on Saturday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders… Read More
UFC champ taken to hospital after stunning KO loss
Ronda Rousey was the UFC’s unstoppable force until Holly Holm used the former champion’s aggression against her to produce one of the sport’s biggest upsets, delivering a knock-out kick to the head of Rousey in the second round. Rousey left the stadium to receive treatment for concussion and facial cuts… Read More
Zebras run wild in the streets of Philadelphia
When you hear hoofbeats, the saying goes, you should think horses, not zebras. In Philadelphia on Sunday, you would have been wrong. A pair of zebras escaped from a circus and went running through the streets of west Philadelphia before they were recaptured, police said. The two animals somehow fled… Read More
Coming soon: Giant robot gladiator fights
Giant fighting robots have never left the realm of science fiction… Until now. Megabots Inc., an Oakland, California-based startup, has built a 15-foot mechanical gladiator called the Mark II and challenged a Japanese firm to an international battle for robot supremacy. Tokyo-based Suidobashi Heavy Industries, maker of the 13-foot Kuratas,… Read More
Delaware emu panic at an end
An emu whose escape more than 60 days ago prompted lockdowns at two Delaware elementary schools has been captured. Daniel Shortridge is a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. He is quoted by The News-Journal of Wilmington as saying that private parties and state officials netted the flightless bird… Read More