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Two Teen Trends: Are Our Teens Regressing?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 06.14.2013 | Parents
Barbara Greenberg

I have always thought that teen trends reflect their desire to look older and to try activities that may be more appropriate for a more mature individual. I guess I am wrong.

Spot the Cop

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 05.22.2013 | Technology
Hemanshu Nigam

They alert drivers of potential hazards such as car accidents and assist drivers in managing commutes by minimizing delays caused by speed traps and roadway dangers. However, the app also encourages speeding in a nation that loses too many of its youngest citizens to car accidents.

Road Runners Run You

Nancy Cohen-koan | Posted 04.06.2013 | New York
Nancy Cohen-koan

Everyone who knows me has heard my spiel against maverick bicyclists. After having been run down by a biker a year ago, I am no fan of two wheelers or bike lanes.

Jets Collide At Miami International Airport

AP | Posted 03.20.2013 | Miami

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured when two commercial jets collided near the gates at Miami International Airport. Airp...

Driving in Kenya -- What's the Limit?

Donatella Lorch | Posted 02.09.2013 | World
Donatella Lorch

As soon as he turned 18, my son Nico declared he was getting a driver's license. Nothing unusual there, but I have to admit, I hesitated. Nairobi is not exactly suburban Maryland.

Bizarre Rash Of Students Falling From Buildings

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 11.28.2012 | College

In a freakish run of accidents allegedly fueled in part by alcohol, at least four Washington State University students have fallen from local building...

I'm With Stupid: The Real Mystery Meat in Your Veal Scallopini

Todd Hartley | Posted 12.26.2012 | Comedy
Todd Hartley

Some years ago, I read a story in the local paper about how 11 moose were killed in Colorado that hunting season by hunters who thought they were elk ...

Calling All Potty Whisperers

John Kinnear | Posted 01.02.2013 | Parents
John Kinnear

What am I doing wrong? Is it me? Why will she go for Mom and Ms. Lupe, but "Daddy-Daughter time" has become "Let's-Ruin-The-Carpet time"?

4 Rules For Pushing the Envelope

Ted Harro | Posted 01.02.2013 | Business
Ted Harro

For those of us who aren't planning to jump on a 70-foot catamaran and drive it close to -- or past -- its limits in freezing water and high winds, what does this mean? A few rules occur to me.

This Guy ACTUALLY SURVIVED

AP | RENATA BRITO | Posted 10.17.2012 | World

By RENATA BRITO, The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO -- A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pie...

Compliance Is Not Leadership

John Friedman | Posted 09.30.2012 | Business
John Friedman

It does not qualify as leadership when an organization is satisfied at being among the best (or is the best) at meeting the minimum standards. Relying on the failure or malfeasance of others in your space is not a valid business model.

How Do Change And Loss Help Us Grow Spiritually?

KidSpirit | Posted 08.27.2012 | Religion
KidSpirit

We go through changes every day, whether they are minor or major. We do not necessarily have to be optimists to see the good in every situation, nor pessimists to feel betrayed and lose hope.

Pro Wrestler Buff Bagwell Injured In Car Accident

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Alexis Stevens | Posted 04.25.2012 | Sports

Pro wrestler Marcus "Buff" Bagwell remained in intensive care Tuesday night after being seriously injured in a Cherokee County wreck, a wrestling spok...

The 5 Stages of Household-Repair Acceptance

Deborah Gaines | Posted 06.13.2012 | Fifty
Deborah Gaines

There went the money I was putting aside for a family vacation. And what about retirement? That $1,000 was the only thing keeping me from a lonely, penurious old age.

Sharon Silke Carty

Scientists Debate If Another Culprit Triggered Toyota's Sudden Acceleration Problem: Tin Whiskers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 01.23.2012 | Business

Even as Toyota has reckoned with a wrenching crisis of confidence, acknowledging reports that some of its best-selling vehicles have been prone to acc...

Amtrak Crash In Oakland Injures 16

AP | By JOHN S. MARSHALL | Posted 12.13.2011 | Travel

SAN FRANCISCO -- An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers in an Oakland station, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, ...

Hang Up and Drive, Governor Brown

Steve Heilig | Posted 11.29.2011 | San Francisco
Steve Heilig

Jerry Brown flubbed a big one this month when he vetoed a bill that would have significantly increased fines for using a cell phone for talk or texting while driving.

Accidents Happen. Luckily So Do Miracles.

Karen Latimer | Posted 11.23.2011 | Parents
Karen Latimer

I believe in miracles. I got mine. I am not counting on there being another one in the cards for me, so I will be doing what I should've done before. I am looking for accidents before they happen.

Turnpike Bus Accident Injures Three

South Brunswick, NJ Patch | Davy James Email the Author | Posted 10.24.2011 | New York

New Jersey State Police are now reporting that the bus driver who had earlier been reported as being killed in this afternoon's accident on the New Je...

Chinese Bullet Train Recall As Travelers Worry About Safety

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 10.12.2011 | Travel

BEIJING -- A Chinese bullet train manufacturer announced a recall Friday of 54 trains in the latest embarrassment for a problem-plagued prestige proje...

Two Killed In Mysterious Car Accident

Posted 10.01.2011 | New York

Thirteen-year-old Kira Goddard was sitting on her stoop at 2025 Pacific Street with some friends when she noticed an SUV driving erratically. The ...

Bret Michaels Tony Lawsuit Moved To NY

AP | Posted 09.06.2011 | Arts

LOS ANGELES -- Bret Michaels' lawsuit over an accident at the 2009 Tony Awards that the singer claims nearly killed him should be heard in New York wh...

Hiroshima to Fukushima: The Illusion of Control

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Joe Cirincione

Hiroshima and Fukushima are of course very different, but the tragedies are fundamentally connected. Both involve our collective deception that we can always control the nuclear machines we invented. We cannot.

Two Construction Workers Die In Elevator Fall

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — Two ironworkers died Tuesday morning after they fell from a fifth floor through an open elevator shaft at a church construction site ...

Honda Recall Announced

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

TOKYO — Honda is recalling nearly 127,000 City and Fit compact cars in Brazil over a gas pedal defect that could cause unwanted acceleration, th...