A painstakingly planned photo expedition to see the annular solar eclipse paid off spectacularly for two veteran astrophotographers. Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre, based in Boston, traveled to the Horseshoe Bend Overlook at Page in northern Arizona to view and photograph the annular solar eclipse that was visible across much of the western half of [...] ...
Adam "MCA" Yauch was the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop. And his good-hearted nature led him to humanistic causes and made him beloved in the industry. He died Friday morning at 47 after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. In a span of more than [...] ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Derrick Rose crumbled to the floor, clutching his left knee. His season is over and the Bulls' title hopes just might be finished, too. Rose will miss the rest of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee late in Chicago's 103-91 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in Saturday's [...] ...
SEATTLE - Phil Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. It was baseball's 21st perfect game and first since Philadelphia's Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. It was [...] ...
By Dylan Stableford | ABC OTUS News – 3 hrs ago Ted Nugent said he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to discuss his controversial comments about President Barack Obama. "I will be polite and supportive as I possibly can be, which will be thoroughly," Nugent told Glenn Beck on Wednesday. During a National Rifle [...] ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It began with a Democratic pundit's comment late Wednesday on cable news that seemed to criticize Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, for choosing to stay home and raise their five sons rather than work. Thanks to social media, the remark quickly escalated into a fracas over the role of women in American society. [...] ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Marlins baseball team suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games after he praised Cuba's Fidel Castro in a magazine interview, the team said on Tuesday. The outspoken Guillen held a bilingual news conference on Tuesday in Miami - home to a large Cuban exile community - to apologize for a [...] ...
MIAMI (AP) — A contrite Ozzie Guillen sat in the heart of Little Havana seeking forgiveness for what the Miami Marlins manager called the biggest mistake of his life — saying he admired Fidel Castro. This wasn't some offhanded insult about a sports writer, the type of thing that got the outspoken Guillen in trouble [...] ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The rarest shot in golf can happen any time Bubba Watson has a golf club in hands. Watson was so deep in the woods late Sunday afternoon that he couldn't even see where he was going. With his golf ball nestled on a bed of pine needles, he hit a gap [...] ...
DENVER (AP) — Brittney Griner scored nine points and grabbed eight rebounds as Baylor jumped out to a 34-28 halftime lead over Notre Dame in the women's national championship game Tuesday night. The Lady Bears moved 20 minutes closer to the first 40-win season in NCAA history. Even more importantly, they're attempting cut down the [...] ...
By KEVIN DOLAK and ALYSSA NEWCOMB | Good Morning America – 6 hrs ago A Texas grandmother explained today how she piled three children into a bathtub to survive a rampaging tornado and hung on to a toddler's feet as the twister tried to suck the boy into its vortex. When the nightmare was over the house [...] ...
Welcome to a special academic-themed edition of BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping for all things NCAA on tournament game days. Ohio State fans may want to go directly to item No. 2. Everyone else begin here: March Madness isn't just about basketball. It's not the only championship this month. It's not even the only one that [...] ...