An 87-year-old grandmother who was Tasered by police while hooked to an oxygen machine in her bed is suing her Oklahoma hometown.
Attorney Brian Dell said Tuesday that he filed the lawsuit June 21 on behalf of his client, Lona Varner. He did not specify the amount she's seeking from the city of El Reno but said it's at least $75,000.
Varner's grandson called 911 on Dec. 22 …
NEW ORLEANS - In the dark of dawn 65 miles south of this shatteredcity, several hundred people bowed their heads in silence, markingthe moment a year ago when the eye of Hurricane Katrina passedoverhead at 6:10 a.m.
The tiny town of Buras was swept into the Gulf of Mexico byKatrina, and hours later, New Orleans' crucial levees were breached,unleashing one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history,killing over 1,800 people, most in Louisiana.
One year later, the Gulf Coast commemorated the storm that broughtthe region to its breaking point.
"We're not well. We're not finished. But I will say this: We'vemade it. Let's move on. Let's move forward," Gulfport, …
A minor earthquake rattled India's capital early Monday, jolting people awake, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.
A statement by the Indian Meteorological Department, which monitors earthquakes, said the 4.3-magnitude quake was only felt in New Delhi and the surrounding areas. It struck about 4:43 a.m.
The department said thousands of people panicked and left their homes when the earthquake …
Turco and the Hawks have been speculated as a match. Turco, formerly of the Dallas Stars, would be an ideal short-term signing for the Hawks if they decide not to bring back Antti Niemi, who was awarded a $2.75 million salary by an …
EVAN ALMIGHTY
In one of the weirdest splnoffs of all time, TV news anchor and newly-elected congressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is visited by God (Morgan Freeman) and asked to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. Baxter's character, also played by Carell, was Jim Carrey's nemesis in 2003's Bruce Almighty, in which Bruce (Carrey) thinks he can fix the world's problems better than God himself (Freeman), with moderately humorous results.
Films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Evan Almighty are putting Steve Carell in clanger of becoming a comedic one-note. While his dramatic career is beginning to blossom (Little Miss Sunshine), his physical comedy and PG-rated …
VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices retreated Wednesday from record highs above $88 a barrel overnight amid expectations a fuel report due later in the day would show U.S. crude and gasoline stocks rose last week.
Still, prices remained supported by concerns a Turkish incursion into Iraq in search of Kurdish rebels could disrupt crude supplies.
Turkey's parliament is expected Wednesday to agree that the government can launch a cross-border attack into Iraq sometime over the next year. The government has said an offensive against the rebels in northern Iraq will not immediately follow the authorization.
An incursion would threaten the pipeline that runs from Kirkuk, in …
Two-lane roads lined with weeds and trees seem to stretch forever in Perry County, where thousands of residents are poor even by Alabama standards and they don't produce much for the outside world besides timber and catfish.
What Perry County has, though, is vacant land _ hundreds of square miles of it. And that provided more than enough space for a massive landfill that critics say has made the county a dumping ground for coal ash from the nation's largest public utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Perry County will be the final resting place for millions of tons of dredged coal ash from an environmental disaster 300 miles away. The first freight trains loaded with the …
