Fourteen-year-old Jessica Sadler wanted to go to the beach with her boyfriend on a warm summer day, but her mother said no, absolutely not. She had better come home or she would be in big trouble.
Texas Rangers shortstop Omar Vizquel matched Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio for the most hits by a player from Venezuela on Wednesday night.
Sen. Dick Durbin was just 10 or 11 when he and his cousin Mike sneaked out behind a garage in East St. Louis, Ill., to have a smoke, Durbin's first. He didn't care much for the taste of the cigarette but, unfortunately, Mike did.
A small sampling of some hits and misses for Mel Kiper Jr., who began analyzing college football players and NFL drafts in the 1970s and made his ESPN draft-day debut in 1984:
Authorities say a woman who jumped to her death inside a busy New York City mall landed on a teenager, causing injuries that sent him to a hospital.
A bus carrying elementary school students has crashed into a home in northern Kentucky.
A British pilot says he ran into an unusual hazard while making an emergency landing — a cow.
The NFL has always known how violence is inherent and celebrated in its sport — from the once-famous "Jacked Up" segments on ESPN, to the still-famous "Hit Stick" on the "Madden NFL '09" video game and the dozens of "greatest hits" videos.
The boom of a construction crane smashed into a light-rail commuter train Wednesday, injuring the driver and five passengers, including a 10-year-old girl, officials said.
Hymns are being replaced at funerals in one Australian city by popular rock classics like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," a cemetery manager said Wednesday.
A Dallas airport spokesman says a service van's driver lost consciousness and wedged the vehicle under a plane full of passengers.
A truck driver was cited for negligent driving after his semitrailer rammed into a Chicago Transit Authority train station, killing two women and injuring 21 other people.
A 7-year-old boy has been struck by an ambulance in central Illinois and has life-threatened injuries.
A freight train rammed into a stolen bulldozer after it was left on the tracks, possibly as a prank, police said.
In real estate, it's all about location, location, location. That's turning out to be not such a good thing for Jodi Courtaway's duplex in Alton, Ill. For the second time in less than a year, a vehicle has slammed into the bedroom of Courtaway's 7-year-old son on Wednesday.
It was the "confession" that nobody wanted to read in 2007 — at least until they had the chance to read it.
A car driven by a 76-year-old patient smashed into a hospital entrance, killing two staff members including a doctor who witnesses said was trying to push people out of the way, authorities said Tuesday.
When Dee Riddle heard the breaking glass, she thought her bathroom mirror must have shattered.
James Brown hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 or Billboard Top R&B; Singles in each of four decades.