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.
A train hit a car stuck on tracks in Salt Lake City early Sunday and the driver was slightly injured. Police reported the crash occurred just before 4:30 a.m. near 800 W. South Temple.
A pebble-sized meteor crashed and burned into Earth, grazing 14-year-old Gerritt Blank while on his way to catch the school bus.
A Baltimore pastor who worked with developmentally disabled people was charged Friday with befriending a blind and disabled man in his care, then paying a hit man $50,000 in church funds for an execution so he could collect life insurance money.
A senior Russian politician has expressed "surprise" and "indignation" at the contents of a report by an influential U.S. think tank that calls for "minimal nuclear deterrence."
PORT ST. LUCIE — A 22-year-old man was charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal mischief Saturday after being accused of trying to enter a Port St. Lucie home, according to an arrest affidavit from the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.
The NFL will consider eliminating blind-side blocks to the head of a defender during its meetings in California, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
DAYTONA BEACH - On 17 miles of beach along the Volusia County coast, tens of thousands of sunbathers share the sand with motor vehicles. They seldom collide.
A million people have reportedly registered for tickets to see Michael Jackson perform in London this summer in what he is calling his "final" series of shows.
DELAND -- A brothers' battle over a pair of jeans ended when the younger brother whacked his older brother in the back of the head with a tire iron, Volusia County sheriff's officials said Friday.
---Photos on link page.--- Excerpt: Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived".
Waukesha - A man who police say was thwarted in his attempt to rob a Muskego supper club by a spoon-wielding chef was charged Monday with armed robbery and drug possession. Joey N. Geraci, 39, of Muskego was ordered held on $50,000.
OCALA, Fla. -- An Ocala man's hopes of getting a good night's sleep were dashed when a car slammed into the side of a brick home and pushed the couch he was sleeping on away from the wall.
Excerpt: A pretrial conference for a 46-year-old Saratoga man charged with the abduction and assault of two south Wood County men has been rescheduled for Feb. 13.
Excerpt: Christmas is an exciting time for most children, but this little boy was so thrilled to receive a Nintendo Wii that footage of his delighted reaction has become a YouTube hit.
Excerpts from the transcript: NARRATOR: Barack Obama launched his first campaign here (Graphic: "Obama launched his first campaign here in this hotel." Still photo of "Ramada Inn – Chicago, IL"), not in anyone's living room.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop short of being "fraud" in the legal sense of the word, they are certainly dishonest and unsavory.
songs that were little more than ear candy at the time and they had thier 15 minutes of fame.
Scott Storch is apparently still broke. Billboard.com says the hip hop producer is "hobbled by debt" and "mismanagement" after owing more than $500,000 in real estate taxes.
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls WATCH FULL MOVIE
A local council employee in Japan has been punished after it was discovered he had accessed porn websites at work more than 780,000 times in nine months. His superiors were alerted to the problem only when his computer became infected with a virus.
In the music industry, a one-hit wonder is an artist generally known for only one hit single. The hits of many one-hit wonders are novelty songs that are, to an extent, deliberately short-lived, recorded for humor or to cash in on a fad.
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A drag-racing vehicle lost control during a parade and spun into a crowd of bystanders, killing four adults and injuring up to 15 people, authorities said
Earlier this week I wrote a post discussing why a huge spike in traffic will cause an abnormal spike in RSS readership. All the theories I suggested are just that, theories.
Have you ever wondered why great musicians can't keep cranking out hits every year? Consider Neal Diamond, for example. He wrote and recorded some of the greatest songs ever. But then the hits stopped coming, despite the fact that his talent probably improved with experience.