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The Salt Lake Valley’s Unified Fire Authority underwent some very timely cold water and ice rescue training yesterday. About a dozen UFA ice rescue team members used chainsaws to cut two large holes…
Bullying is no laughing matter, but humor has the power to heal. Keith Deltano is a nationally-known motivational speaker who will travel to North Carolina to speak at Greensboro’s Walter…
Archaeologists studying the bones of people buried thousands of year ago can uncover an amazing amount of information about how those people lived. The wear on a human skeleton can reveal such…
In another development in the case of the N.C. A&T University student who died after collapsing at a sports tryout, A&T has fired an associate athletics director and suspended its head…
The family of Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in the Tuscon shootings a little more than a week ago, made the selfless decision to donate her organs after she passed away. The…
Yesterday, the New York Times shined a light on the growing business of lending money to plaintiffs in exchange for a lien on thier personal injury lawsuits. This business, which the industry wants…
The U. S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, along with Health Canada and White-Rodgers, has announced a recall of 188,000 programmable thermostats because of risk of fire. The thermostats contain…
On August 19, 2010, Jospin “Andre” Milandu, a 20-year-old student at N.C. A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina, died after collapsing on the university track during a track team…
A recent study completed by a research team at San Diego State University highlights the dangers of third hand smoke to new residents of homes previously occupied by a smoker. If you’ve stayed in a…
“Four” is a line of alcoholic energy drinks manufactured and sold by Phusion Projects LLC. The name is derived from the drink’s original four main ingredients: alcohol, caffeine,…
A South Dakota woman paid a visit to her mother in Salt Lake City for the holidays while her husband is deployed in the Middle East. She suffers from adult onset asthma, and one of the notorious…
The American Tort Reform Association is at it again. They have just come out with their 2010 Judicial Hellhole report. What do you think they mean by hellhole? Well, if by hellhole you mean…
