WLS-Ch. 7 reporter Evelyn Holmes and photographer John Truitt are accustomed to documenting the news, not participating in the stories.But when the pair drove up to a fiery crash on Lake Shore Drive on Saturday, they followed their instincts to help before reporting.”We’re all human first,” Holmes said.Holmes and Truitt were on their way to […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Joey Logano, the driver who has spent seven years trying to live up to impossible expectations, raced to his first career Daytona 500 victory Sunday as he continued to reward Roger Penske for catapulting him into one of NASCAR’s top stars. Nicknamed “Sliced Bread” when he broke into the Sprint Cup […]
Dakota Johnson walked the red carpet with her mom and fellow actress Melanie Griffith, which made us go, “Awww!” until the duo stopped to talk with ABC’s Lara Spencer and it got awkward. The interview started out nice enough with Melanie saying how happy she was about Dakota’s Fifty Shades success. “I don’t want to […]
As had been widely predicted, Patricia Arquette won the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the Oscars for her role in Boyhood. Arquette played the protagonist’s mother, a role that grew in importance and emotional sweep over the running time of the film. Arquette, a veteran actress who rose to prominence in films like True Romance […]
Swimmer Michael Phelps is all about the gold at the Olympics, but now he’s focusing on another precious commodity, diamonds! Phelps popped the question to his on-again/off again girlfriend Nicole Johnson with a sparkler, and she said yes! Rolling around in the snow, the couple looked lovingly at each other, posting his and hers shots […]
Artist Red Hong Yi‘s incredible creations made with unlikely materials are exploding in popularity. The artist, who goes by her nickname “Red,” already had her work featured two times, and we just can’t get enough of her. Red is back with a new piece celebrating her home country of Malaysia and its culture. She created […]
In June 323 BC, Alexander the Great died in Babylon aged 32, having conquered an empire stretching from modern Albania to eastern Pakistan. The question of what, or who, killed the Macedonian king has never been answered successfully. However, new research may have finally solved the 2,000-year-old mystery. Alexander III of Macedon, also known as […]
Every word has different meaning in different language and countries. We are here compiling a list of such names that sounds weird in other languages but it’s perfectly fine in it’s native language. Have a look at them and laugh at your own risk 1. OK SUK WHANG
Two and a half men — none of them Charlie Sheen. That’s surely what many viewers were watching for: To see whether Sheen would return for Thursday’s final episode of Two and a Half Men — the series he helped turn into one of CBS’s (and TV’s) biggest hits. The answer was “yes” in spirit, […]
London-born writer whose book Awakenings inspired the Oscar-nominated film vows to live ‘in the richest, deepest, most productive’ way he can after learning of multiple metastases in the liver The scientist and writer Oliver Sacks has said his “luck has run out” after revealing that he has terminal cancer. Sacks, whose book Awakenings inspired the […]