Category Archives: Loss

Memory loss from aging can start as early as 45: Study

By doris | Published: January 8, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS) Memory loss might start a lot sooner than originally thought, a new study suggests. The study found signs of age-related cognitive decline in men and women who were only 45 years old. PICTURES: Alzheimer’s disease: 7 things that raise your risk For the study, researchers tracked nearly 5,200 men and [...]

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NY teen killed by bus had suicide note, police say; family alleges bullying

By doris | Published: January 3, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com A 15-year-old who a witness says jumped in front of a Staten Island bus was carrying a suicide note when she was struck, distraught because she was the target of bullying at her school, according to a relative. Amanda Diane Cummings, a sophomore at Staten Island’s New Dorp High School, was [...]

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German satellite to fall to Earth this weekend

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, with experts predicting that up to 30 big pieces of the junked spacecraft could hit the planet. But exactly when and where the satellite will fall remains a mystery. The 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite, or ROSAT, will likely plummet to [...]

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Child abuse increased as economy crashed, study shows

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com As the U.S. economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows. Anecdotes linking child abuse to the recession have surfaced before, but there had been no hard data to back the connection until now. “It’s definitely disturbing,” [...]

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After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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Oil sinks below $100

By doris | Published: May 5, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Oil prices plunged more than 8% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude to its biggest one-day drop since April 2009. The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery settled down $9.44, or 8.6%, to $99.80 a barrel. That’s its lowest level since [...]

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Iowa Wrestler Defaults Rather Than Face Girl

By doris | Published: February 17, 2011

Full Story at NBCSports.msnbc.com DES MOINES, Iowa – A standout Iowa high school wrestler refused to compete against a girl at the state tournament on Thursday, relinquishing any chance of becoming a champion because he says wrestling a girl would conflict with his religious beliefs.

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Search continues for boy swiped from grandmother’s arms

By doris | Published: January 22, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A car pulled from a California canal Friday night was not the same vehicle a witness claimed he saw being driven into the water with a young boy trapped inside, the Stanislaus Sheriff’s Department said Saturday. Authorities are continuing to search the canal near the area where a 4-year-old [...]

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Daughter snatched from hospital reunited with mom 23 years later

By doris | Published: January 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — In 1987, an anguished, trembling Joy White pleaded for someone to help her find her infant daughter. “I hope she’s all right,” the heartbroken mother told reporters at the time before collapsing in tears. Now, 23 years later, White is crying tears of joy as the decades-long mystery of [...]

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WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers

By doris | Published: December 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Amazon, whose servers have been home to WikiLeaks since earlier this week, has quit hosting it, the website behind a massive disclosure of controversial documents said Wednesday. WikiLeaks confirmed the move on its Twitter feed Wednesday afternoon. “WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted,” read a post from shortly before 3 [...]

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Kids, parents still waiting on Head Start

By doris | Published: October 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Pontiac, Michigan (CNN) — Lamont Butler is a single father, unemployed for more than a year and trying to do the best for his daughter, 3-year-old Samaya. The family qualifies for the federal government’s free pre-kindergarten program, Head Start, but has been on a waiting list for more than a year. [...]

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Wife of American who went missing at lake pleads for help

By doris | Published: October 12, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office gave conflicting information Monday over whether authorities are pursuing a pair of suspects in the case of a U.S. citizen who disappeared during a sightseeing trip on the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas. While Luis Homero Uvalle, a spokesman for the office, [...]

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Acid attack victim: Sunglasses — and God’s hand — saved my vision

By doris | Published: September 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Bethany Storro doesn’t usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later. “God is watching over me,” Storro, of Vancouver, [...]

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Joke on boat leads to four deaths

By doris | Published: August 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four men died after horsing around in a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir, authorities said late Monday. The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. [...]

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2-year-old reported missing from Arizona campground

By doris | Published: July 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in Rimrock, Arizona, were searching Monday for a 2-year-old boy who went missing over the weekend while camping with a family that was preparing to adopt him, a spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said. Syler Newton was last seen shortly after midnight Saturday, sleeping in a [...]

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Second Flagstaff fire forces more to flee

By doris | Published: June 21, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Firefighters in aircraft and on the ground battled the second serious wildfire to threaten the Flagstaff area in two days Sunday, prompting officials to urge hundreds of residents to flee as flames crept within 500 yards of some homes. Officials said the fast-spreading fire erupted in this forested [...]

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Cost of seizing Fannie and Freddie surging

By doris | Published: June 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March, a virtual city with more houses than Seattle. The mortgage finance companies, created by Congress to [...]

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Gulf of Mexico oil spill called worst in U.S. history

By doris | Published: May 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Venice, Louisiana (CNN) — The Gulf of Mexico undersea gusher has already spilled more oil than the Exxon Valdez disaster — possibly more than twice as much, making it the largest oil spill in U.S. history — government scientists said Thursday. Scientists observed 130,000 to 270,000 barrels of oil on the [...]

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School cuts a painful no-win lesson for all

By doris | Published: March 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Kansas City, Mo., plans to close nearly half its public schools by fall. Illinois’ governor wants to raise state income taxes by 1 percent to continue funding schools and prevent the layoffs of thousands of teachers. Hawaii, President Barack Obama’s home state, has whacked 17 days from the school year and [...]

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Rosenthal: Why the Saints — or Colts — will win Sunday

By doris | Published: February 7, 2010

Full Story at NBCSports.com It’s almost game time. You’ve read thousands of words on Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, heard how elated the city of New Orleans is to be in the Super Bowl for the first time and received hundreds of updates on Dwight Freeney’s ankle. Consider all that your introduction into the game. [...]

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