A life jacket, determined rescuers and an unlikely pocket of air kept a boat accident from turning into tragedy over the weekend, according to the Cocoa, Florida Police Department.
Catastrophic flooding has swallowed swaths of Louisiana in a deluge that the governor calls "unprecedented." But the breadth of the destruction can be hard to imagine.
Austin Schexnayder had been scrambling for days to salvage what he could of his home after Louisiana's historic floods. He hadn't seen his kids in six days.
Cecil Stephens sadly looked over the charred remains of the Summit Inn. The Southern California restaurant, once frequented by Elvis Presley, had fallen victim to the Blue Cut wildfire.
US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior with three of his teammates over the weekend at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, where police said at least one of the men vandalized the business and urinated on the premises.
When Massachusetts law enforcement surrounded the house of a 31-year-old suspected drug dealer Thursday, the person in the home didn't initially match the description.
I am one of four adopted kids -- three of us mixed race and one, Vietnamese -- raised by white parents in Milwaukee, the nation's most segregated city.
