“I thought: I’ve lived a good life.”
— KEITH CARMICKLE, on dangling from the stands over a 20-foot drop and being held by his brother and friend after attempting to catch a Prince Fielder home run during the MLB Home Run Derby …
History is a great thing, when you have it around. The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants to keep it that way, and has unveiled its 2011 list of America’s most endangered historic places.
“If someone is out there, there is a good chance that they are still surviving, and we will keep looking for them.”
— BILL BURWELL, a Coast Guard lieutenant, on the search for several people still missing after a tourist boat …
“I heard him say he doesn’t know how to play, but he seems like he has a natural talent if he practices more.”
— CALVIN LOMEN of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on saving the first two ball-hockey shots from Prince …
The oversized, bulky suitcase getting wheeled away from a prison cell by a nervous woman was a giveaway on so many levels.
Your plans to shoot your first film on a lunar camera from the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission just got scuttled by NASA.
We can’t even keep our national parks from falling apart, according to a new report this week from the National Parks Conservation Association.
Some countries count people in their census. China counts pandas, too.
Can’t Happy Feet, the now-famous New Zealand penguin, catch a break? In a trying turn of events, the poor bird can’t even get back home to Antarctica without a special permit.
“It’s a little ironic to see those who have championed the idea of tolerance be less tolerant on this question.”
— MIKE CLARK, Eugene, Ore., councilman, reacting to the council voting to not recite the Pledge of …
Money doesn’t grow on trees for every professional sports franchise. Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has taken a storied franchise into bankruptcy this week, and brought a wee bit of drama along the way.