Wet weather delays harvest from Midwest to South

Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.

0

0

It's not lunacy, probes find water in moon dirt

The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.

2

2

Review: Murky controls, goals leave `WET' dry

Someone at Bethesda Software did the right math. Draft-age males play games, so a slashing, pirouetting assassin with a body rivaling that of Angelina Jolie seems like the winning combo for the new title "WET."

0

1

Midwest corn farmers battling wet field blues

Ed Mies would like to plant corn on his central Illinois farm by now, but instead he has time to talk about how wet his fields are.

0

0

Bed-wetting blues: Millions of adults suffer, too

Some people wet the bed. Cynthia MacGregor wet her boyfriend.

6

35

Thick layers of snow poised to refresh parched West

Hydrologist Joe Messina pushes an aluminum tube straight down into the spongy springtime snow in a mountainside forest, crouches to read the markings on the side and calls out the depth: 28 inches.

3

1

Alaska Couple Married in Swimming Pool

The cake was in the shape of a pool and the walk down the aisle was replaced by a zip down a water slide as Mark Confer and Joanne Wainwright took the plunge into marriage — literally.

0

0

Oops! Drivers Sink Into Wet Concrete

As many as 10 vehicles drove around barriers and onto freshly poured concrete on a busy thoroughfare during rush hour. Two got stuck, Mequon police said Thursday. "Once someone goes around the barricade and busts through the tape, others follow," Sgt. Tony Restivo said.

0

2

A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday.

5

22

Space shuttle Discovery almost didn't make it to the launch pad today when technicians had to battle a rain-drenched crawlerway that slowed the shuttle's trip to launch pad 39-A and threatened to force NASA to return the crawler transporter back to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

1

0

Due to all the wet weather in Colorado for the past few months, mold, mildew, and even mushrooms are sprouting up in people's homes in Denver.

0

0

Your cell phone, pager or iPod has fallen into the toilet bowl, swimming pool or kitchen sink full of water. You fish it out. After you've washed your hands -- depending on the circumstance -- what can you do?

2

4

The long-held notion that fingerprints marks help us grip more firmly appears to be wrong. Instead a new study finds that the marks actually reduce the friction between skin and surfaces.

1

0

Apple's iPhone hit stores with a crushing wave of publicity, with customers waiting in line hoping to put its hip look and functionality in their hands. And one of the iPhone's biggest fans was Amanda Adamcheck.

1

2

There are many men who lack the confidence and the skill required to pick up girls at the bar. In recent years, many of these men have taken to practicing their conversational skills online.

4

2

Greg Henderson won a weather-shortened second stage on the Tour de Murcia, which saw the peloton paced for several kilometres as a safety precaution.

0

0

Several hundred thousand people need help in Haiti, which is suffering severe flooding after being hit by a series of tropical storms, the UN says.

1

0

Video shows strategies for saving a wet cell phone

1

0

Big news tonight from Seattle based wiki/social networks startup Wetpaint (we covered their growth spurt last week): they've raised a $25 million third round of financing, bringing the total amount of capital raised to nearly $40 million, and they've launched an embeddable wi …

0

0

Jessica Simpson is topless on the cover of the may issue of Esquire magazine, and as you might have noticed, she's shaving. It's a little odd, but it's actually a redux of a classic Esquire cover featuring Virna Lisi.

1

1

A suspected carjacker got into a sticky situation when his getaway was foiled by wet cement. Ruby Aguas got stuck in some freshly poured concrete at a construction site in Reno, Nevada.

2

0

....The young boy, Joey Cosmillo, fell into the family pool in January. He was resuscitated but suffered brain damage and now cannot walk, talk or swallow. He lives in a nursing home and eats and breathes through tubes.

7

11

Someone stole a swimming pool full with 1,000 gallons of water without leaving any trace behind. Wow, I don't see how that's even posible.

3

2

Early forecasts indicate that the 111th Boston Marathon, set for Monday, April 16, is likely to be cold and possibly accompanied by rain showers.

1

0

DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.

7

6

Spaceport America is a bit soggy at the moment. The New Mexico spaceport site and surrounding areas is undergoing horrific, monsoon-like rains, breaking 100 year old records.

1

0