For most people, a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie can turn any frown upside down. For Loren Castle, classical treatment became a lifesaver. With little to lose after a brutal battle with cancer, the native New Yorker — who wanted more than anything to live a normal, healthy, happy life — walked into Whole Foods…
An Australian school community has been left outraged after a well-loved crossing guard was banned from a senior student after a parent complained about the innocent gesture. Pupils at Mount Dandenong Primary School in Greater Melbourne will no longer get high-fives from their beloved crossing supervisor John Goulden during drop-off and pick-up after he was…
World War II veteran Dominick Daniel Santagata will turn 100 on August 23, and the Woodhaven, Queens native will be inundated with birthday cards from at least 100 grateful New Yorkers and their friends and family around the globe. All thanks to a history-loving Westchester millennial who made it her mission to thank the war…
Millennial wordsmiths may soon be stuck with updated Scrabble vocabulary as Gen Z’s modern lingo becomes acceptable for use in the board game. In the first major update in four years, Collins – the creators of the Scrabble dictionary – have added 2,000 new words to the game’s lexicon, including terminology commonly used by younger…
Millions of Americans load their dishwashers after dinner to run a cycle while they sleep — but one woman says you do so at your own peril. Simone Anderson says her Kansas home went up in flames while she slept earlier this month after turning on her dishwasher before turning in for the night. Anderson,…
Kait Granger remembers telling her mom she loved her one last time. It was December 8, 2019, when Granger ran back to the apartment the two shared in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb outside St. Louis. internship at her church. “I have to hug him and tell him I love him. It was a sweet little…
A travel blogger was upset when he discovered that the hotel he booked in Egypt turned out to be ancient history. Mark Jeavons, 43, was excited about his four-night stay at the Pyramids and Sphinx View Hotel in Giza, Egypt, which was quoted as £40 per night (US$52). But when he arrived at the listed…
On a summer afternoon when most New Yorkers are chained to the nearest air conditioner, the residents of the New Jewish Home on West 106th Street were enjoying a very active day. There was the trip to Broadway, a cuddle with puppies, a scuba diving adventure and skydiving over the Swiss Alps—and all without breaking…
Calm down! A high-tech startup is giving people the chance to cryogenically freeze their corpses in the hope that they could be resurrected one day in the distant future. Tomorrow Bio, a Berlin-based company, is paying a pretty penny — $222,603 plus a $55 monthly fee — to put bodies and body parts on ice….
Iain Ward was told he’d be dead in a year – so why does he feel so alive? The 35-year-old fitness trainer, who had worked a lifetime to keep clean and healthy, saw his world come crashing down after a shock diagnosis of terminal brain cancer in 2019. But instead of giving up, the grim…