Life and Death
Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twisters tore through his home. As his family cowered beneath him he was carried through the air some 30ft before being set down again with just cuts and bruises.
CHICAGO - A man who tied sheets together and used them to try and lower himself out a window of a nursing home accidentally fell and died Wednesday morning in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
A 2-year-old girl fell from a fourth-floor hotel balcony in the tourist district of Orlando on Wednesday night, but she was caught by a hotel guest and was not injured
The bees struck as William Steele, 95, and his wife, Myrtle, 92, were cleaning their hunting cabin outside Harlingen, Texas. They moved a wood stove, which disturbed a colony. Mr Steele tried to escape from the cabin, but the bees chased after him, stinging him hundreds of times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife, who was stung more than 300 times, was airlifted to a hospital 100 miles away, where she later died. Their son, Richard, who was also stung, and his wife, Judy, were with them at the time. The cabin was in such a remote location that there was no mobile phone signal and 67-year-old Richard had to drive several miles before he was able to call for help.
A 73-year-old grandmother who was dropped into freezing Arctic waters during botched rescue attempt has died... Richardson reportedly began to feel dizzy and ill on the Ocean Countess cruise along the coast of Norway last month. After she was examined by the ship's doctor the captain decided to transfer her to shore for treatment. Another passenger on the ship, Colin Prescott, said both the ship and the lifeboat "were steaming at ten knots" when paramedics tried to move her on a stretcher.... "The vessels, which hadn't been latched together, suddenly moved apart by several feet as they were transferring her, which caused the rescue crews to drop the stretcher into the sea...." the water was -3 degrees Celsius (26.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and that it took paramedics around 8 minutes to rescue her from the frigid waters.... "Janet had always wanted to go on a cruise to the Norwegian Fjords so she could see the Northern Lights," her husband said. The couple share eight grandchildren between them through previous marriages....
A southern Kentucky woman has been charged with ... murdering pregnant woman Jamie Stice, and kidnapping her newborn baby.... "She has been telling everyone that she was pregnant and we had no reason not to believe otherwise...."
Here's the world's oldest man's secret to a long life: - Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face. ("Every change is good.") - Eat two meals a day ("That's all you need.") - Work as long as you can ("That money's going to come in handy.") - Help others ("The more you do for others, the better shape you're in.") Then there's the hardest part. It's a lesson Breuning said he learned from his grandfather: Accept death. "We're going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die," he said. He was the oldest man in the world and the second-oldest person, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. Besse Cooper of Monroe, Ga. - born 26 days earlier - is the world's oldest person.
A 102-year-old Japanese man killed himself because he did not want to leave his home in the extended radiation zone.
Michele Dufault '11, an Astronomy and Physics major from Massachusetts, died last night in an accident in Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, University Secretary Linda Lorimer said in a campuswide e-mail Wednesday morning.... While working in the Laboratory's machine shop, Michele's hair got caught in one of the shop's wood lathes...
The small green missile, measuring 20 inches long with a 5-inch explosive head and four tail fins, was handed to her by her husband, then she walked outside and placed it on the grass next to a detached garage before calling police. As she waited for police to arrive, Sally Ann said she was doing dishes in the kitchen when she saw a St. Francis police officer approach her yard in the 2000 block of East Leroy Avenue with extreme caution. The officer advised the Wittmans in no uncertain terms to evacuate the house immediately, as well as people living in the surrounding neighborhood. [HANDED IT TO HER????]
This inspiring story gives the reader a glimpse into heaven through the eyes of a young boy. Though skeptical at first, parents Todd and Sonja came to realize that more occurred during surgery than ever expected. Colton began to recount his journey to heaven, including descriptions of people met while there: a great grandfather who had died 30 years earlier; a sister that was lost through a miscarriage; and Jesus himself. Colton was also able to accurately describe his parents praying for him in separate rooms at the hospital during his surgery and he related that it was at the hospital that the angels sang to him.
A man apparently trying to save his wife with CPR collapsed himself, fell on top of her and died Wednesday night in the couple's home in the town of Joyce on the Olympic Peninsula. Rescuers broke into the home and tried to revive both the man, 60, and his wife, 59, but both died.
A Delaware County man has been arrested and charged with murder in the beating death of an elderly Landsdowne man who had befriended him and made him executor and sole beneficiary of his will. John Joe Thomas, 28, of the first block of Sunshine Road in Upper Darby, allegedly told police he killed Murray Joseph Seidman, 70, because the older man had made sexual advances and that the Old Testament spelled out stoning as the punishment for homosexuality. "I stoned Murray with a rock in a sock...."
Young mother dies protecting her child from tornado's winds... The 21-year-old mother perished while sheltering her child and a tree fell on their home. The daughter escaped injuries....
the incredible story of 11-year-old Shaunice Smith, who is thought to be the only person in the world whose heart is both on the wrong side and the wrong way round
"I'm guessing that he hit his head near the top of the well," he said in reference to an injury the child had. "If he would have hit it further down, he probably wouldn't have survived." Luton said a key factor in the rescue was the presence of a wrecker. An Alert Wrecker Service driver was in the area when the call came out and responded to the scene. "When we arrived, he was already there," Luton said. "He backed up and extended the boom over the hole, which gave us a good connection point for our ropes and rigging."
as cells and tissues age, the expression of a key protein, called p16INK4a, dramatically increases in most mammalian organs. Because p16INK4a is a tumor suppressor protein, cancer researchers are interested in its role in cellular aging and cancer prevention.... same biomarker is present in human blood and is strongly correlated both with chronological age and with certain behaviors such as tobacco use and physical inactivity, which are known to accelerate the aging process....
The victim of the alleged "Craigslist killer" recently got sober and was looking to get her life on track....
believed to be daughter of former slaves, broke the world record in January after a 115-year-old Portuguese woman died.... "We've seen her health decline a little, but she's a very strong woman...." outlived every one of her relatives, including her daughter, who died of typhoid at the age of 18. When Baines was born, Grover Cleveland was president and the U.S. flag had only 44 stars....
The new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massacusetts, has given a sermon describing abortions as a "blessing" for the women who undergo them. The Rev Katherine Hancock Ragsdale also thinks that the people who run abortion clinics are "heroes" and even "saints".
if Robert Lemire had not decided on pizza for dinner or if Alex Day had not come to the apartment on Haverhill Street for Bible study... Neither might have seen the heart-stopping sight of a girl in a diaper and T-shirt dangling from an apartment window three stories above the ground, and they might not have been waiting to catch her when she finally fell. ... survived a 30-foot plummet Sunday night and probably owes her life to the two men who ran to the spot below the window and caught her, one by the legs, another above the waist, and brought her, unhurt, back to her father in the apartment upstairs. ... The toddler fell with her body tilted toward the ground. "He pretty much got the top and I got the diaper end, or the bottom half, or whatever you call it," said Lemire. "She looked at me and had a weird look on her face as if to say, 'Wow, all of a sudden I'm down here,' " Day said.
A Filipino woman who acknowledged giving birth to a baby on a flight from the Middle East and then leaving him in the trash on the plane said she was raped by her employer.... The baby was found by a security guard at Manila's airport last Sunday in a trash bag unloaded from a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain. The trash apparently came from the plane's bathroom..... abandoned the baby because she was afraid of what her family would say.... baby... already bluish in color, may have died within a few minutes had he not been found.... is now fine but underwent an X-ray because of two bumps on his head....
our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22. ... in nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22. The first age at which performance was significantly lower than the peak scores was 27 — for three tests of reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation. Memory was shown to decline from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42.
Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's funeral in Gray Court. A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head and struck the body with a wand.... charged with disturbing a funeral and public disorderly conduct.... When deputies asked the woman why she acted the way she did, the woman said "she felt that it was the right thing to do at the time...."
The Board of Medicine revoked the license of a Florida doctor on Friday accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion in which a live baby was delivered, but ended up dead in a cardboard box.... According to the complaint, she gave birth at a Hialeah clinic after waiting hours for Renelique to arrive. The complaint said one of the clinic owners put the baby in a bag that was thrown away. Police found the infant's decomposing remains a week later. A medical examiner determined the cause of death was extreme prematurity...
The body of Wang Diange, from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, was found in the wreckage of a house where he had been overseeing the wake of a previous family funeral, after mourners felt a loud explosion which took off half the roof. ... Inquiries revealed that the rainfall on the day of the original disaster was triggered by the local weather bureau, which had been firing shells into the atmosphere to break up hail in order to protect the local tobacco crop. Inside the shells were silver iodide, a chemical that helps to break up hail into rain. Their own investigators concluded that one shell must have failed to explode, hit the house, and lodged in Mr Wang's body. There it passed unnoticed because of his extensive injuries, according to local newspaper reports. [Courtesy of Chuck's News of the Weird Universe]
One of the oldest women in Britain, aged 106, has been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day for more than a century, it has emerged.
EVANSTON, Ill. - A 90-year-old woman well-liked by her neighbors apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s
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