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Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.
The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I.
Guards at a northern Indiana jail face disciplinary action and will receive additional training after a man was accidentally trapped inside a cell for 12 hours. Elkhart County Sheriff Mike Books said officers and supervisors on the jail's first and second shifts "failed to account" for 40-year-old Scott Roberts and that their actions were unacceptable.
People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too.
Faded numbers stamped into small cement blocks marked the graves of more than 3,200 mentally ill patients buried here at Western State Hospital between the 1870s and 1953. Over time, the stones themselves sank into the earth, leaving the dead in almost perfect obscurity.
As he trudges past chest-high ferns and butterflies the size of saucers, George Beccaloni scours a jungle hilltop overlooking the South China Sea for signs of a long-forgotten Victorian-era scientist.
Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.
Mary Sue Merchant died of natural causes in a tightly locked house on 25 acres in this small community, with only a dog for company. Now her small town is reflecting on why no one noticed for 18 months.
Don't ask Mattie Caldwell how many candles go on her birthday cake. "I don't remember," she said. Medicare records indicate Caldwell's birth date is March 5, 1901. An old family Bible gives the same date but three years earlier, in 1898. And there's no legal record of her birth because she was born at home.
After the guns of World War I fell silent, a young Vietnamese kitchen worker petitioned the leaders of the victorious Allied powers at the 1919 Versailles peace conference to support independence for his country.
It wasn't long ago that illegal immigration was supposed to be a top issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Terrorism and the Iraq war, which drove the 2004 contest between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry, were expected to be important again this time.
The history of the Mosaic Templars was believed to have drawn to a close in the 1930s, when the Great Depression swallowed one of the largest benevolent societies for blacks in the nation and likely the world.
The once-decried free trade deals of the primaries have been all but abandoned as political boogeymen.
They want you, they need you, they lose interest, they leave you for someone else.
Forrest City police weren't able to catch their man after a high-speed chase through town, but the cell phone he left behind gave away his identity.
Age may have slowed him, but P.P. James wakes up early every day to head into the fields and harvest rice.
A bailiff who forgot about a woman locked in a courthouse holding cell and left her there for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom has been suspended for 30 days but will keep his job, officials said Wednesday.
A bailiff has been suspended for 30 days without pay for leaving a woman in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom.
When Samak Sundaravej became Thailand's prime minister on Feb. 6, pundits wondered how long it would take for his pugnacious streak to emerge.
Sam Haskins didn't ask for a fur coat for Christmas. But he got six of them.
Stray dogs wander forlornly around the rundown gray brick barracks that used to house of one of the most notorious World War II Nazi death camps in the Balkans.
The living room of Sam Ard's brown doublewide trailer speaks to his short but successful NASCAR career. Trophies surround the fireplace and crowd its mantel. Plaques and pictures dot the living room walls. What's not there speaks to Ard's life after NASCAR, the two championship rings and a handful of grandfather clocks from Martinsville Speedway that he sold because "we was running short on cash." Unlike veterans of other sports, Ard has no pension to fall back on.
Antonio Pittman had a spectacular 2005 season with little attention and fanfare.
Imagine using the restroom at your local bank and finding a loaded handgun on the back of the toilet. A Guaranty Bank employee discovered the gun Tuesday and called police, said Brookfield police Capt. Phil Horter.
Police: Father Left Baby On Sidewalk A horrified and very emotional father is relieved that his baby, found alone by strangers on Wednesday in downtown Winter Park, is OK. New details reveal that the baby was left behind on New England Street as the boy's father simply forgot him, Local 6 News reported.
Forgotten Memories Are Still in Your BrainFor anyone who's ever forgotten something or someone they wish they could remember, a bit of solace: Though the memory is hidden from your conscious mind, it might not be gone.
Who am I ? Excuse my poor English. I am a 65 years old Peruvian journalist, trying to help children and elderly poor of my town, the rural community, San Juan of Yanac located between high mountains, clean air and blue sky in Cajamarca, Peru.
The long waitPersecuted and oppressed in Burma, Rohingya Muslims are fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. Starving and stateless, they live in squalid makeshift camps. And yet, as Cyrus Shahrad discovers, they have not lost hope. By Giles Duley
Baby Forgotten In Car At BART Station Dies A four-month old infant boy died early Monday evening after being left inside a closed parked car at the El Cerrito Plaza BART station for most of the day, according to authorities.
Afghanistan - Another Forgotten PeopleSome interesting information about Afghanistan. The Afghanis have a Mujahid spirit in them.
Parents angry after 6-year-old left on busA Catholic school in Chicago is examining how a 6-year-old boy could have been left sleeping on a school bus for more than two hours during a subzero cold spell.
The Top 'Non-Troversies' Of 2008They seemed so important at the time, didn't they? The issues over which much ink was spilled, many talking heads blathered, and, in some cases, congressional committees were convened. More Articles
Straight from YouTube to bookExcerpt: It has to be one of the stranger stories in publishing history, but it may also turn out to be one of the more successful. And it may just send more publishers scurrying to YouTube for book ideas.
Family forgets four-year-old at airport - Travel - smh.com.auA four-year-old girl was left behind at Israel's Ben Gurion international airport on Sunday as her mother, father and four siblings rushed to catch a flight to Paris, police said. "I saw a little girl in tears. She was looking for her parents," a policewoman told reporters.
"Air Malta officials said the airplane was not a place for sleeping"SOFIA (Reuters) - A sleeping teen-ager flew home to Bulgaria and then back to Malta after aircrew apparently failed to notice she was still on the plane. Maria Ilieva, 17, was traveling alone and fell asleep on an Air Malta plane taking her overnight from Valletta to Sofia.
Forgotten password clues create hacker riskSecurity flaws in the "forgotten password" feature of ecommerce websites leave half the UK's online retailers open to attack, according to security consultancy SecureTest.
AlterNet: Haunted by KatrinaReport about a family who was forced to migrate to New York after the Katrina disaster. If you want to learn about the hardships involved, read this article, it gives a troubling first-hand impression of the catastrophes that still follow the hurricane.
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