CBS News reports that at least 25 people have died since relentless rains started pounding the eastern state of Queensland, Australia, in November. Out of the devastation that the floods have caused, a hero has arisen.On Monday, rapidly rising water in Toowoomba,...
B. H. McDaniel was a very successful orthodontist with a thriving practice. He also loved to fly his plane for a hobby. One day, he was flying from El Paso, TX to Lufkin, TX, when the engine stalled, and he couldn’t start it again. He was over the Davy Crockett...
As an airplane was on its way to Paris, a report came in about heavy fog in "the City of Lights." The fog was so severe that landing the plane in Paris was completely out of the question. So, the aircraft was diverted to another city about 190 miles away where the...
On Friday evenings about sunset, on a lonely stretch along the eastern Florida seacoast, one could regularly see an old man walking -- white-haired, bushy eye-browed, slightly bent. Each and every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return carrying a large...
Early one summer morning in 2003 in Nova Scotia, three teenagers decided to steal a boat and take it for a joyride. They stole a pontoon boat from a Pleasantville wharf, drank the liquor they found on board, and ended up down the river.The three next broke into a camp...
Professor Arai of Saga, Japan has developed a system whereby PC users can input text simply by looking at an on-screen keyboard.When the user gazes at a character for one second, the system, which uses a miniature camera, detects their line of sight and types in the...
American journalist Frank Thorp was in an area about 6 hours north of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake occurred in Haiti last Tuesday afternoon. He felt the ground shake where he was, but he assumed that it was just a small quake. He soon learned, however, that it...