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Fire Aboard Nuclear Sub Injures 6

Patch | Robert Cook | Posted 05.24.2012

Six people have been injured in a fire on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine....

Woman Alleges She Was Harassed By Debt Collector As Her Home Burned

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.23.2012

For one Texas woman, a contract she signed with a restoration company when her home set fire has turned into a debt nightmare. Mara Kafarela, a hom...

Moscow Ski-Jump Fire Extinguished

AP | Posted 05.02.2012

MOSCOW -- A fire at a landmark ski-jump overlooking central Moscow has been extinguished after lighting up the night sky for nearly an hour. The ski-...

Arsonist Squirrels Light Pastor's House On Fire

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.20.2012

They've gone completely nuts! Squirrels in southwestern Florida are causing sparks to fly on electrical lines that ignite easily in the area's dry ...

Fukushima's Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.17.2012

Vivian Norris

Why does Fukushima still matter? Because no matter what TEPCO or the authorities have claimed, the reactors and the fuel pools are unstable.

Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Pain And Progress In Burn Care (NSFW)

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.09.2012

What actually happens to the body when it catches fire, and what technological advances in burn treatment await on the horizon?2012-04-09-Screenshot20120409at11.24.01AM.png

Mesmerizing Wildlife Woodburnings

Posted 04.05.2012

Sometimes even the craziest new technologies don't measure up to the power and intrigue of Mother Nature's original materials. Julie Bender revives th...

DISCOVERY: World's Oldest Campfire Found In South Africa

Posted 04.02.2012

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/02/2012 03:11 PM EDT on LiveScience Ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of...

The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In 2012

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 05.27.2012

Greg Lukianoff

Free exchange of ideas is the lifeblood of any university, and for the second year in a row my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in E...

"Seashore"

Gideon Resnick | Posted 05.19.2012

Gideon Resnick

Silently creeping deviance, She swam to the shore, cigarette ablaze With the light of the moonlit glow That glazed her eyes red revenge, Sopping seas...

Lynne Peeples

A 'Toxic Treadmill': Dangerous Flame Retardants Remain Widespread In Children's Products

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.06.2012

Flip over your couch cushion or desk chair and chances are, you'll see the same tag that is affixed to the bottom of many others: "This article meets ...

Soldier Dad Dies Trying To Save Daughters From Burning Home

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER and EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 05.06.2012

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — A decorated Green Beret leapt from the second-story of his burning home early Tuesday, wrapped himself in a blanket and ran b...

Alabaster

Gideon Resnick | Posted 05.05.2012

Gideon Resnick

My tender heart wept for my soul, My love, my alabaster.

Blaze Injures Firefighter At Anacostia High School (UPDATE)

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.17.2012

WASHINGTON-- A blaze at Anacostia High School has already injured one firefighter. Students have been evacuated from the school. Tweets from t...

Student Suspended For Writing His Prof Is Hot

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.12.2012

A college student at Oakland University in Detroit was banned from campus for a year and ordered to undergo "sensitivity" counseling because he wrote ...

Driver Saves 6 From Flame-Engulfed School Bus

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.10.2012

Lindora Richardson, a 37-year-old school bus driver, managed to save six children before her bus erupted into flames yesterday in Charlotte, N.C., CNN...

Eleventh Circuit to University Administrators: Respect Student Rights

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.10.2012

Greg Lukianoff

The Eleventh Circuit's recent ruling is a clear sign that university presidents and administrators that choose to brazenly violate student rights will not be able to do so without real consequences.

Charity Founder Loses Everything In Apartment Fire

Posted 02.03.2012

As the founder of Share Your Soles, a nonprofit that delivers shoes to impoverished children in third world countries, Mona Purdy has committed her li...

Playing With Fire

Posted 02.02.2012

Here at HuffPost Arts we come across a lot of kooky materials. Sculptures made from paper clips, paintings out of tape ... you name it, we've seen it....

The 10 Most Amazing Tales of Animal Rescue (VIDEO)

Posted 02.03.2012

We hear and read stories about these kinds of heroic acts all the time. Whether it's our fellow man helping out man's best friend or people putting as...

Utah Boys Save Woman Caught On Fire From Cigarette

AP | Posted 01.20.2012

By Associated Press SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- Four Utah boys out to buy soda from a South Jordan store are being called heroes for helping a woman whos...

Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook, Then Folds Under Public Scrutiny

Adam Kissel | Posted 03.20.2012

Adam Kissel

It was barely a year ago that Syracuse University was at the top of this list of the "12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" here at the Huffington Post. ...

WATCH: Making Fire With Magnifying Glass Made Of Ice

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.19.2012

We know you miss watching Survivorman (and Bear Grylls is just not cutting it for you), so here's a video to reawaken your buried survival instincts. ...

Pit Bull Survives Horrible Fire

David Mizejewski | Posted 03.19.2012

David Mizejewski

Everyone assumed Spooky perished in the fire along with Mike's three cats. But when clean up workers began going through the burned out rubble, Spooky rose from the ashes relatively unscathed.

Diverse Coalition Urges Department of Education to Protect Freedom of Speech on Campus

Adam Kissel | Posted 03.07.2012

Adam Kissel

Colleges are all over the map when they try to come up with their own definitions of sexual harassment. Our research has found hundreds of distinct formulations and examples, a large number of which are unconstitutional.