Connie and Donald McCracken were watching CNN one evening last week when they learned of the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson from a head injury. Immediately, their minds turned to their 7-year-old daughter, Morgan, who was upstairs getting ready for bed.
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Pennsylvania acid spill forces evacuations
A tractor-trailer carrying 33,000 pounds of corrosive hydrofluoric acid overturned in eastern Pennsylvania early Saturday, spurring evacuations, authorities said. The acid was spilled at 3:30 a.m
Mugabe seeks aid for wrecked economy
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe pleaded Thursday for aid to help revive the country’s battered economy, which analysts say he is responsible for wrecking. “Please come to our aid,” said Mugabe while launching The Short Term Emergency Recovery Plan Thursday. STERP is the first economic plan formulated by the new inclusive government as it steps up efforts to resuscitate the ailing economy
10 ‘secrets’ you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Do you remember the scene in the movie "Something’s Gotta Give" where Jack Nicholson’s character lies about Viagra to a doctor in the emergency room? He’d just had a heart attack after romancing a (much younger) woman, and the doctor is furiously calling out orders to give him aspirin, blood pressure drugs, and … nitroglycerine
Talk Therapy for Kids’ Pain: Better than Pills?
Some children, like some adults, have chronic, unexplainable pain.
200 boats have capsized in past five months, Coast Guard says
Bad weather, poor planning, a lack of safety equipment. Any one could put a boater in the kind of peril that befell two NFL players and their two friends off the coast of Florida last weekend, Coast Guard officials say
Doctors: No definitive answers on flu deaths among young
For most, the flu is a winter inconvenience — stuffy nose, fever, body aches and a few days of bed rest. But what seems fairly routine also can become life-threatening
Why We’re Going Nuts Over Nut Allergies
Susan Fradin has nightmares about Cheerios. Specifically, the Honey Nut variety.
The Inside Story on the Breakdown at the SEC
Historians looking for an early sign that the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression might be deeper than expected could do worse than listen in on a predawn teleconference one Friday last spring. Top Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank officials hunched over their phones in a last-ditch bid to bail out the giant investment bank Bear Stearns Cos.
Tornado cleanup begins in Oklahoma
A scene of devastation emerged Wednesday as circling helicopters broadcast images of housing developments smashed by tornadoes and severe storms that killed at least eight people in south-central Oklahoma Tuesday. Storms ripped roofs off several homes and left twisted metal and other debris scattered across the area