Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr
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The last U.S. slave ship was burned to hide its horrors. A storm may have unearthed it.
In the summer of 1860, half a century after the United States banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Capt. William Foster sneaked 110 African slaves into Mobile, Ala. — and knew that the floating evidence of the illegal deed could get him killed. The trip was more part of an obscene bet than any sort of…
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A boy’s basketball-size tumor is slowly suffocating him. Doctors will attempt a risky removal.
Noel Zayas paraded his son to a never-ending carousel of Cuban doctors, but none of them would touch the boy. Emanuel Zayas’s basketball-size facial tumor was too complex, they told his family. The surgery to remove it too risky. “I knocked on a lot of hospital doors,” Zayas told the Miami Herald. “To see our son deforming…
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A ‘UFO sighting’ briefly freaked out the West Coast. There was an earthly explanation.
The people of Los Angeles can be forgiven if they were a little quick to jump to extraterrestrial conclusions. The government did, after all, just admit that it had spent $22 million to investigate unidentified flying objects. And after 70 years of keeping the government installation known as Area 51 under wraps, Uncle Sam conceded…
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Killer blows a kiss to his victim’s family as he leaves court allowed to skip their statements
The murder trial was all but over. A jury of Jeffrey Willis’ peers had determined that he had gunned down Rebekah Bletsch, a 36-year-old jogger he’d encountered on the side of a Michigan road in 2014. Investigators say he was trying to pull her into his van as she tried to fight back. But before…
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Now another man claims he was the person saving a bunny in a viral California wildfire video
In a moment that warmed the Internet’s cold, cold heart last week, a Los Angeles television station claimed it had un-hoodied the man who ventured into the middle of a California wildfire to rescue a frantic rabbit — a save captured in a dramatic video that got all the feels as it rocketed around the…
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A mother got the flu from her children — and was dead two days later
The children were the first to get sick. They spent Thanksgiving with sore throats and chills and fevers. By the end of the long weekend, the adults who had gathered for the family’s holiday meal in Phoenix were feeling flu symptoms, too. “We were all together for Thanksgiving, and the little kids got sick, then…
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A baby declared dead woke up on the way to his funeral — and lived for five days
A baby boy in India who was pronounced dead a few hours after birth but then was found to be alive and wriggling on the way to his own funeral has died — a tragic end to a story that has cast a harsh light on one of the country’s elite private hospitals. Now Max…
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Obama should be arrested for implying Trump needs a filter, Fox Business host suggests
Call it an unwritten rule — a matter of decorum among the small fraternity of men who once held the title “leader of the free world.” Before he left office, Barack Obama said his goal was to steer clear of the political spotlight — as George W. Bush had done when he left the White House —…
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Don’t eat your placenta, researchers warn
More than 200 millennia of human civilization and two centuries of modern medicine have brought us to this recent heavy-handed admonition by scientific researchers: It’s probably a bad idea to eat your placenta. The 11-page, medical jargon-filled article published last month in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology seeks to provide a clear answer…
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New Delhi’s ‘gas chamber’ smog is so bad that United Airlines has stopped flying there
NEW DELHI – Citing toxic smog that one official said has turned India’s capital city into a “gas chamber,” United Airlines has canceled flights to New Delhi until the air gets better. At least in United’s eyes, the Indian capital’s smog concerns are on par with environmental disasters like hurricanes and volcanoes – a risk…