2008-11-28
Five-figure bonuses stun employees
Employees of a family-owned company treated to huge bonuses after the company is bought out...
2008-01-02
Pennsylvania Couple Has 1st Baby for 2nd Year
A central Pennsylvania couple have a new tradition for ringing in the new year: spending it in the maternity ward. For the second year in a row, Kyle and Becky Armstrong welcomed the first baby of the year at Gettysburg Hospital.
Faith Lynn Armstrong arrived on New Year's Day at 5:23 a.m. Her sister, Kaden Skye, was the hospital's first baby in 2007 — also born on Jan. 1...
2007-12-29
Foul-mouthed customer leaves waitress $50,000
For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer...
2007-12-29
Indiana man buys new pickup with loose change
Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off...
2007-12-29
Festive greetings 'from Heaven'
An Oregon man has stunned friends and relatives by sending them Christmas cards, two months after his own death...
2007-12-23
With Diet, Exercise and Friendship, Man Loses 400 Pounds
Four and half years ago, David Smith weighed more than 630 pounds. He had spent nearly a decade on the couch in his parents' house eating pizza, raiding the fridge, and drinking soda...
2007-12-22
Wallet thief caught in newspaper coincidence
Jami Johnson had left her wallet on the counter at the Zip Trip convenience store in Clarkston early Tuesday morning. Surveillance video showed a man picking the wallet up and walking out of the store with it.
Thursday, police found and arrested the thief after seeing his picture in the paper...
2007-12-19
Man's journey to find birth mom ends — at work
For years, Steve Flaig, a delivery-truck driver at a Lowe's store here, had searched for his birth mother. He found her working the cash register at the front of the store...
2007-12-19
Warship returns with ailing girl from cruise ship
A teenager who was rescued by a Navy warship after her appendix ruptured on a weeklong Mexican cruise returned to the mainland Tuesday after undergoing surgery at sea...
2007-12-19
Family trapped by snowstorm built a snow cave to survive
Searchers today rescued a father and three children who had gone into the Northern California woods to find a Christmas tree. They reportedly survived by building a snow cave....
2007-07-19
New Flexible Plastic Solar Panels Are Inexpensive And Easy To Make
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "The process is simple," said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra. "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations...
2007-07-13
Pizza Hut Waitress Gets $10,000 Tip
It was just a typical day on the job at the Pizza Hut in Angola, Ind., for 20-year-old Jessica Osborne when out of the blue, she received a gift that would change her life: a $10,000 tip from one of her customers...
2007-06-18
Air New Zealand plane lands safely WITHOUT landing gear
Aircraft pieces flew in the air as an Eagle Air plane with 17 people on board made an emergency crash landing at Blenheim Airport this morning after landing gear failed...
2007-06-06
Graying duo keep passenger in check
Retired police commander and retired US Marine captain subdue an unruly airline passenger that had frightened many others on the flight. ...
2007-03-02
Hepburn's £500,000 black dress pays for Indian schools
When the black Givenchy dress Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's was sold for a staggering £467,200 in December, it prompted a flurry of publicity. But this week, away from the cameras at a dirt-poor village just outside Calcutta, a new school was opened, paid for entirely from the proceeds of the sale of the dress...
2007-02-14
Napping May Be Good for Your Heart
Like to kick back for an afternoon siesta? Good news: a new study shows that regular napping may cut your risk of dying from a heart attack or other heart problems...
2007-02-14
Grandfather fights 16-foot snake to free grandson
A 66-year-old man saved his grandson from the grip of a 16-foot-long anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour...
2007-01-18
Teen hailed as hero in kidnapping case
Mitchell Hults is a young man of few words. But when it mattered most, he talked late into the night, giving authorities the information they needed to rescue his friend and another boy held captive in suburban St. Louis...
2007-01-06
NY Police Officers Deliver Baby In Subway
New York City subways are generally on time. However, a Brooklyn baby was early -- and had to be delivered on the L train Wednesday night...
2007-01-05
Two men catch falling child in NYC
A 3-year-old boy was caught by a passerby and his brother after falling from the fourth-floor window of an apartment in New York City Thursday. In depth article in the New York Times (free, reg. req.) including an interview with the heroes...
2007-01-04
Man Saves Teen Who Fell on Subway Track
Wesley Autrey faced a harrowing choice as he tried to rescue a teenager who fell off a platform onto a subway track in front of an approaching train: Struggle to hoist him back up to the platform in time, or take a chance on finding safety under the train...
