A man convicted of killing Michael Jordan's father said in an interview Friday that he will one day walk free from prison, contending a new report on mistakes at North Carolina's crime lab shows the evidence against him is falling apart.
As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before activating the emergency disconnect system that was supposed to slam the oil well shut at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Dennis Quaid's newborn twins nearly died after a medical error at a hospital. By telling their story, he hopes to help prevent the same thing from happening to anyone else.
President Barack Obama says his administration has seen political setbacks in its first year and that many of them were deserved.
More than a year and a half after a massive flood left a huge swath of eastern Iowa underwater, the tiny farming community of Oakville is clinging to survival.
Houston had a chance for its first single-season, four-game winning streak on Sunday against the Colts.
Towana Gooch, a single mom who lives with her 10-year old daughter, was on the verge of losing her town house in suburban Maryland after her mortgage lender kicked her out of a government loan modification program. The problem, she says she was notified, was a 7-cent error.
Vince Wilfork stood at his locker and faced the unpleasant facts: The Jets talked trash and then backed it up.
The Internal Revenue Service warns that many taxpayers are mistakenly trying to double-dip on last year's federal tax rebate when they file their tax returns this year — and the IRS is catching the errors.
If Timothy Geithner can get confused over the laws governing the withholding of tax, anyone can, experts say.
President George W. Bush acknowledged some mistakes and disappointments during his presidency at his final news conference Monday with reporters.
In the final days of his presidency, George W. Bush is acknowledging a list of mistakes or disappointments.
If the captain of the Titanic had not gone down with the ship, would he have blamed the iceberg for the disaster?
A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new — and in some cases unflattering — last names.
Despite extensive efforts to educate workers about saving for retirement, many employees are not doing a good job of managing their company-sponsored 401(k) accounts, a new study indicates.
The U.S. military's top general acknowledged Friday that he made mistakes in his early Iraq war strategy but said he still has no doubt that invading the country was the right decision.
Make no mistake about it: President Bush is admitting he's made some in Iraq.
It's been 10 months since a roadside bomb in Iraq killed Cathy Brunson's son and three fellow Georgia National Guardsmen — not long enough to heal, she says, and too late to take much comfort in President Bush's admission he's made mistakes in conducting the war.
I had a dream... not unlike Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet, my dreams were not as grandiose. I wanted to have a home that was wheelchair accessible. I obtained that.
Croskerry has suggested that the magnitude of the health system problem with mistakes was unmasked and that "the new century ushered in an era of openness
Thinking about God may make you less upset about making errors, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
So, Newt farts out a boilerplate "defense of traditional marriage" — because the gays are all about hating on marriage by getting hitched — in a post that allows comments.
Newt Gingrich warned Thursday that President Obama and congressional Democrats appear to be on the verge of repeating the same mistakes that aggravated the Great Depression, adding that letting the Bush tax cuts expire would prove "very dangerous" for the nation's economy.
"Whether misspelled or of passing Internet trends, a bad tattoo is something you just know when you see it.
A mistake is a creation of hindsight.
Well, I was supposed to have a bone-scan on August 11th, WRONG! Wait until you read this catalogue of errors!
For the 104th week, the Telegraph has published a photo gallery of what it calls "sign language" - user submitted signage mistakes. Not to be missed!
Stress tends to creep up on us without us realising it because our home (especially relationships) and our jobs (money) often take their toll as we try to balance domestic responsibilities with work ones. But living with undue stress is not an option.
Do you suffer from the weight of regret? Do you think back on your past decisions and cringe at the thought that it can never be changed despite the time and effort you put into willing the past to magically change to the better or smarter choice? Do you allow your past decision …
Recently I watched the documentary “The Fog of War” and in it 11 lessons were talked about to explain how and why the events of the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War occurred.
BP is coming in for plenty of abuse these days, and certainly much of it is deserved.
ScienceDaily (May 21, 2010) — How people behave in economic games, where they can choose to be selfish or cooperative, can be explained more easily by 'mistakes' than wanting others to succeed.
Simon Cowell showed Americans his softer side on Thursday, telling Oprah Winfrey he suffered from depression and that he had made "some absolutely horrific mistakes" in the past.
The numbers are simply staggering: Every year 1.5 million people are sickened or severely injured by medication mistakes, and 100,000 die. And yet all of those deaths are preventable. What's the answer? We have to protect ourselves.
About once a week you get a wacky "dumb criminal" story in the newspaper, like the guy who tries to rob a police station, or the dude who sticks up a bank and then boasts about it on his Twitter account.
In another potential boost to investor confidence, the era of sloppy accounting appears to be ending.
In late January, the New York Times published a startling and groundbreaking series of reports by investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich who has uncovered case after case of people who suffered devastating consequences -- including horrendously painful, torture-like deaths -- bec …
Whether it's your first time or you're a seasoned pro, you should never buy a car on impulse. The buying process takes time, research, careful thought and even some strategy.
Have you ever done something that is just dumb? When you realize what you have done—do you look at yourself and have that "duh" moment? It doesn't have to be about anything important... Lately, it seems like I am having my share of "duh" moments.
Cartographic errors can persist for centuries, surviving even evidence to the contrary. One of the most famous examples is the curious case of California as an island.
Nearly one in 10 hospital prescriptions contain a mistake, ranging from the minor to the potentially lethal, research has found. But the study, commissioned by the General Medical Council, found very few errors would have caused serious harm.
My parents are and were far from perfect. My father was a bare-knuckle brawling truck driver of the stereotypical type. He lived the life and was the kind of man people like Dave Dudley sang about.
A Thompson man set to have all his upper teeth removed claims he awoke from surgery to find dentists didn't stop there and extracted all his lower teeth as well. All of them!!! That sure gummed up the works, dontcha think? - H2