A mere five words ignited the showdown:

“We don’t work on Sundays.”

On one side of the table in the worksite trailer sat Firoz “King” Husein, owner and founder of Span Construction & Engineering, a company that specializes in the engineering and construction of large steel buildings. Read More

It’s probably not a good idea to take the law into your own hands, but this video of a man stealing back his stolen bicycle is sure to bring a smile to your face.

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A total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth, captured by a NASA satellite

Just two weeks after the huge “supermoon” wowed skywatchers around the world, the heavens will offer up another observing treat — a solar eclipse on May 20 that should be visible from much of western North America.

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Rachel Macy Stafford of Hands Free Mama

Yes, it is the 21st century. Yes, the whole world is online. Yes, the communications for your job are important. Yes, at times you must be readily available. But despite all those factors, you do not have to sacrifice your child’s childhood; nor do you have to sacrifice your life. Read More

Mother’s Day is over and it might be a relatively new holiday, but that doesn’t mean that parents today are any more deserving of adulation in the form of flowers and gift cards than their counterparts in the ancient world. Read More

Thirty-one years later and half a world away, Talei Berger’s dream has come true. She will spend Mother’s Day with her daughter. Read More

Molly Wood is celebrating her 111th birthday on Thursday. She is Charlottesville’s oldest resident and has lived here for 90 years. Read More

In November 1861, the writer Julia Ward Howe and her husband visited the cold, barricaded capitol of Washington, D.C. They met Abraham Lincoln at the White House, and in the afternoon, Howe toured the army camps surrounding the city. Read More

This is a Mother’s Day story, but it is really about sisters, about how it took two of them to make one of them a mother. It is a story about cancer and the shadow it cast over the lives of these women, since Melissa Brown was 2 and her sister, Jessica, was a baby. Read More

Holland Cokeley, an 85 year-old Pennsylvania resident who enjoys wandering around the wooded area near his home with his neighbor’s dog, recently made a very interesting discovery: The turtle his son carved his initials into 47 years ago is still alive and well in the area where it was assaulted years ago. What’s more, the poor creature’s shell still bears the markings of that fateful day in 1965 when his home was forever scarred by the unwieldy shenanigans of a 13 year-old boy.

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Shanti the Elephant is singing her own special song now that keepers at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., have attached a harmonica to her cage. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports. Read More

If you remember nothing else from this article, remember that Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th. Go ahead and buy the card now. Once that’s taken care of, here are 17 much wackier holidays to keep it fun this month Read More

Across the world, people have varying levels of belief (and disbelief) in God, with some nations being more devout than others. Read More

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A teen boy in Washington state was hailed Monday as a hero for pulling an 18-month-old child from the second-floor roof of an apartment building moments after his 2-year-old brother fell into a flower bed.

“That’s the type of quick-thinking kid I’d like to see in the sheriff’s office in 10 or 12 years,” Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Neiman said of 13-year-old Damon Davenport. “He sees the issue and jumps into action while others gawk.”

The children were supposed to be napping in their third-floor apartment Sunday when they climbed through a damaged screen onto a roof outside the window, authorities said.

Davenport was playing football nearby when he heard one child hit the ground.

He and others ran to the child before Davenport ran upstairs to get the child’s father. When they got back downstairs, the teenager noticed the new danger.

“Everybody said there’s another baby up there,’” Davenport recalled. “I ran and I opened the door and opened the window and pushed out the screen and grabbed the baby boy who was two inches from the edge.”

He handed the crying 18-month old to the father. The 2-year-old boy was checked at a hospital and sent home.

Neiman said the family of father Ben Buehler was fortunate the baby landed on soft earth instead of concrete. The family does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press.

The fire department plans to nominate Davenport for a lifesaving award.

“He’s quite the hero,” fire Capt. Scott Willis told The Columbian. “He did something a lot of kids his age wouldn’t have done. He’s very brave.”

Source – Huffington Post

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday announced the signing of former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand to its 90-man offseason roster. Read More