Author: Lindsey Bever
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A groom jumped into a pond during his wedding photo shoot to save a boy from drowning
When Brittany Ross Cook saw her groom, still dressed in his wedding suit, plunging into a pond in a park in Canada, she first thought he was playing a joke. The couple had said their “I do’s” and were posing for wedding photos Friday in a park near Kitchener, Ontario. During the photo shoot three children had been following them around,…
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Primal screams, blood and burns: What it’s like to survive a lightning strike
Rain and hail were pelting down, and a thunderclap roared across a lake in central California. From afar, the fiery lightning strike that came with it looked like an explosion, darting down a tree trunk before it hit a father and his two young children who had hunkered down beneath it. “It hit that person.…
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The fanged, faceless sea creature that washed ashore during Harvey has been identified
After high winds and heavy rains brought by Hurricane Harvey, a mysterious sea creature with fangs and no face washed up on the shoreline in southwest Texas – giving the Internet a challenging task: to identify it. Preeti Desai, social media manager at the National Audubon Society, posted pictures of the critter earlier this month…
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Jose, ‘still a dangerous Category 4 hurricane,’ threatens second blow to Irma-ravaged islands
CABARET, Haiti – Hurricane Jose, a powerhouse tropical cyclone barreling northwest toward the Caribbean islands already hammered by Irma, is now a “little weaker but still a dangerous Category 4 hurricane,” officials said. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning that Jose’s maximum sustained wind speed is at 145 mph, as the storm churned toward…
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The tiny islands ravaged by Hurricane Irma are in trouble – and begging for help
As the worst of Hurricane Irma departed Antigua and Barbuda early Wednesday, Prime Minister Gaston Browne boasted that “no other country in the Caribbean would have been as well prepared as we were.” The problem with this statement, as he later acknowledged, was that Barbuda was left “barely habitable.” Barbuda sustained damage to about 95…
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Why this professor is wearing a bulletproof vest to class
When Kevin Willmott stepped into a University of Kansas classroom wearing a bulletproof vest, his students immediately fell silent. It was the professor’s way of protesting a state law that allows concealed carry on college and university campuses. The legislation, which was passed in 2013, was implemented over the summer at colleges and universities across the state. Willmott said…
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WATCH: ‘Remember, we only kill black people,’ Georgia police officer told a woman
A Georgia police officer has been accused of making racist statements to a woman during a traffic stop, telling her that the police officers “only kill black people.” Dash-cam video shows the Cobb County officer, who has been identified by local news organizations as police Lt. Greg Abbott, standing outside a vehicle during a DUI…
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$758.7 million Powerball winner sold in Massachussetts
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Powerball announced that a single ticket sold at a convenience store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, was the winner of Wednesday night’s $758.7 million jackpot, according to the Powerball website. It was the second largest lottery prize in United States history, according to the Associated Press. The winning numbers were…
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The strange story of that ‘Blacks for Trump’ guy standing behind POTUS at his Phoenix rally
President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd while speaking at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Rick Scuteri President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd while speaking at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Rick…
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A sleeping mother suffocated her newborn in the maternity ward. Now she’s suing the hospital.
Monica Thompson had given birth to her first child, a baby boy, and was almost ready to take him home from the hospital. It was nearly midnight one Sunday in the summer of 2012 when Thompson, who had undergone a Caesarean section a few days earlier, was given a cocktail of narcotic painkillers and sleep…