Autistic teen sinks 1,000th half-court shot
But Nicholas Bennett, a senior at North Hall High School in Gainesville, Georgia, didn’t hit a game-winning basket. His achievement last Saturday was even rarer. Bennett, who has autism, has…
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Hambycast: Searching for freedom in Iowa
Standing before a conservative audience at the first annual Iowa Freedom Summit, in an auditorium usually reserved for the Des Moines ballet, the firebrand Senator from Texas distilled the state’s…
Old Firm reunited: Do Celtic and Rangers need one another?
How times have changed in Scotland’s largest city. Over the last three years Celtic and Rangers have been like strangers in the night as the financial capitulation of Glasgow’s blue…
White House unveils new medical research initiative
READ: Obama cracks ‘Deflategate’ joke, jabs at Romney – “I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes — and to…
This ‘eco stove’ does more than cook your dinner
To tackle energy poverty, many entrepreneurs are increasingly devising innovative solutions to explore feasible alternative power options. One of them is Rose Twine. Having grown up in both urban and…
Is Wall Street ready for another Mitt Romney campaign?
Financial executives remember the attacks in 2012 all too well and, faced with the possibility of another Romney campaign, are wary of another round of negative attention. “His formal entry…
How ISIS’ new hostage strategy is shifting the goalposts
Three of the prisoners ISIS apparently wants back are womena failed suicide bomber, an alleged bomb maker and a woman tied to the head of ISIS. The fourth is a…
Attendant: ‘Nut rage’ exec cursed and shoved over service
The flight attendant who served the offending macadamia nuts testified that she and the chief flight attendant knelt before Heather Cho, the former vice president at Korean Air, and the…
ISIS launches attack on Kirkuk
Separately, heavily armed militants attacked an abandoned hotel in central Kirkuk used by local police as headquarters. Police and Peshmerga sources in Kirkuk told CNN that armed men put snipers…
She penned the ‘Thorn Birds;’ Colleen McCullough dead at 77
Her 1977 novel The Thorn Birds, which sold 30 million copies worldwide, was made in to a TV miniseries in 1983, starring Richard Chamberlain, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Simmons and Christopher…
‘Some People Call Me Maurice’: Best Los Angeles theme bars
But to pretend you’re totally somewhere else? That requires a more inspired atmosphere. The transportive kind. With, say, exotic opium den decor and a last-call gong. Or vintage 1970s home…
5 things to know for your New Day — Friday, January 30, 2015
Waiting and watching: A prisoner swap didn’t go through yesterday, and the fate of two hostages held by ISIS is up in the air. A video purportedly from the Islamist…
Howard Finster’s ‘Paradise’: The South’s most inspired garden
It sounds crazy, but the way late folk artist Howard Finster told the story, the mysterious face said, “Paint sacred art; paint sacred art.” The vision came to the retired…
Just when New England had dug out…more snow
It dumped feet of white. Worcester, Massachusetts, for example, received a record 34.5 inches from Monday through Wednesday. – Though not as mighty, the coming clipper system’s gusts combined with…
‘Walking Dead’ in Georgia: Film tourism comes to life
At least in Georgia. Fans of the wildly popular AMC series “The Walking Dead” are making their way to Atlanta and surrounding small-town Georgia to sniff out traces of Rick…
6 reasons to love Atlanta
1. Wow, that’s a big, crazy airport. 2. Wow, that traffic really sucked. Maybe you got to spend a little time downtown for a convention or ballgame. And, sure, there…
‘Fresh Off The Boat’ sitcom draws backlash after tweet
If anything, the ad reinforced tired imagery: One Asian figure wore a pointy bamboo hat; another Latino figure wore a sombrero with a curly mustache. Story creator Eddie Huang, whose…
Eddie Murphy returns to SNL after 30 years
After more than 30 years, Eddie Murphy is returning to Saturday Night Live. The comedy legend will appear on the 40th anniversary special of the NBC sketch comedy show. The…
Carrying baby from hospital rubble, policeman becomes a tragic hero
It was dawn, and Police Officer Mauro Enrique Vera Suarez was in the middle of suiting up for work. The shock wave jolted his station like an earthquake. It swung…
Frozen feat: Adventurer climbs icy walls of Niagara Falls
The Canadian ice climber used only ice hooks to scale the frozen cliffs at Terrapin Point, a 147-foot section directly next to Horseshoe Falls. – Scaling the falls is the…
Guinea advances to AFCON quarterfinals after drawing of lots
It was a rarethe last time lots were drawn at the continental tournament was in 1988and unfair way to settle second place in Group D according to both managers but…
Hope fading fast for ISIS captives as another deadline passes
ISIS had pushed Jordan to bring a convicted terrorist, Sajida al-Rishawi, to the Turkish border by 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET) Thursday. If they didn’t, the group said, a Jordanian…
Legal lifeline thrown to Australians on Indonesian death row
Successive appeals have failed to have their sentences commuted, and both are on a list of inmates scheduled to die by firing squad. Application accepted On Friday, their Indonesian lawyer…
Taliban claim responsibility for Kabul attack that killed 3 Americans
“Yesterday in the evening he managed to get to a crowd of invading and infidel American military forces where he turned his gun towards them and opened fire,” he added….
Incredible 50-ft ‘dragon’ dinosaur unearthed by Chinese farmers
Lida Xing, a member of the research team from the University of Alberta who made the discovery, told CNN it was named Qijianglong, the “dragon of Qijiang” because farmers thought…
Ex-D.C. cab driver lands on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list
The FBI says Mohamed is accused of providing material support to Al Shabaab, the Somali-based group that’s linked to al Qaeda. The group has launched many deadly terrorist attacks, including…
Divers begin recovery of Civil War ironclad before deepening of channel
For about the next nine months, divers will be working to bring up the CSS Georgia, piece by rusted piece, from nearly 40 feet down in the Savannah River. The…
Feeling blue? Andy Murray’s girlfriend caught unleashing volley of abuse
The match was a tense one from the beginning, with much of the pre-game narrative focusing on Murray’s ex-coach, Dani Vallverdu, who is now in Berdych’s corner. The Scot, who…
Suge Knight involved in fatal hit-and-run
There were two victims, said Sgt. Ryan Rouzan, with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. One was pronounced dead at an area hospital. The other’s condition was not known. –…
The 13th Juror: When picking a jury turns into a marathon
They have little doubt that the scruffy college sophomore and his big brother built a couple of pressure cooker bombs and blew up the finish line of the 2013 Boston…