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Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: Firefighter’s widow describes text messages before husband died Car splits in half in accident, driver disappears Harvested seaweed could help protect Texas shoreline against future hurricanes Rescued Animals Make a Difference in the Lives of Kids Dallas teacher wears same yearbook outfit for 40 years Man catches 200-year-old, 40-pound fish Wealthy parents sue school, claim they were scammed into buying $50K finger painting A walk in Wendy Davis’ shoes: The woman behind the long filibuster When a written warning just isn’t enough: talking cigarette packs Avatars might encourage women to lose weight: Study

Firefighter’s widow describes text messages before husband died  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 12:05 PM PDT Juliann Ashcraft, widow of Andrew Ashcraft, who was one of the 19 firefighters who died while battling the Arizona wildfire on Sunday, spoke to "Today" about the text messages she exchanged with her husband shortly before he died. Juliann said she sent her husband a photo of their four children, all under 6, swimming. Juliann [...] Full Story	Top
Car splits in half in accident, driver disappears  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 10:30 AM PDT A car split in half after hitting a power pole on Sunday morning in Des Moines, Iowa, and police say there is no sign of the driver and few clues as to who even owns the car, KCCI reports. Police received an anonymous tip about the accident at around 3:45 a.m. Sunday. They arrived on [...] Full Story	Top
Harvested seaweed could help protect Texas shoreline against future hurricanes  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 08:41 AM PDT Texas officials are hoping that the harvesting of seaweed might actually help protect the city of Galveston from hurricanes. In 1900, Galveston was a booming metropolis and arguably one of the more important cities in the United States. But a massive hurricane submerged the city, killing about 6,000 people on its way to becoming the [...] Full Story	Top
Rescued Animals Make a Difference in the Lives of Kids  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 08:06 AM PDT "Do you know it's impossible to hug a cow and have a bad day at the same time?" That's what Ellie Laks, founder of The Gentle Barn Foundation, tells visitors to her six-acre barnyard in Santa Clarita, California. The nonprofit organization is a sanctuary for animals. "We rescue severely abused and neglected animals that no [...] Full Story	Top
Dallas teacher wears same yearbook outfit for 40 years  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 07:18 AM PDT Dale Irby is retiring after 40 years. And so is his yearbook outfit. For his entire career at Prestonwood Elementary in the Richardson school district in Texas, the physical education teacher wore the same disco-era shirt and dirt-colored sweater each year for his yearbook picture. At first, Irby told the Dallas Morning News, it was [...] Full Story	Top
Man catches 200-year-old, 40-pound fish  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 06:54 AM PDT A fisherman in Alaska took home a catch for the ages recently when he reeled in a 40-pound shortraker rockfish that experts believe is at least 200 years old. The Daily Sitka Sentinel reported that Henry Liebman of Seattle was deep-sea fishing off the coast of Alaska on June 21 when he hooked the record-setting [...] Full Story	Top
Wealthy parents sue school, claim they were scammed into buying $50K finger painting  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 05:14 AM PDT A pair of Manhattan socialites are suing a private school for nearly a half-million dollars after it allegedly tricked them into bidding $50,000 for a finger painting done by kindergarteners. According to the lawsuit filed on Friday in New York State Supreme Court, Michelle-Marie and Jon Heinemann claim the Cathedral School of St. John the [...] Full Story	Top
A walk in Wendy Davis’ shoes: The woman behind the long filibuster  Tuesday, Jul 02, 2013 04:29 AM PDT The Fine Print Before state Sen. Wendy Davis began filibustering a restrictive abortion bill in the Texas Capitol last week, she grabbed her pink running shoes. She may need to lace them up again, because another special session of the Texas legislature is underway again this week. "I thought maybe I might need something with [...] Full Story	Top
When a written warning just isn’t enough: talking cigarette packs  Monday, Jul 01, 2013 03:30 PM PDT Smokers are used to written warnings about smoking on the sides of their cigarette packs. But what about a pack that talks? A group of researchers from University of Stirling's Centre for Tobacco Control Research in Scotland are working on cigarette packs that attempt to dissuade would-be smokers from lighting up, The Scotsman reports. The [...] Full Story	Top
Avatars might encourage women to lose weight: Study  Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:35 PM PDT Virtual reality avatars can help encourage women to lose weight, according to a study published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. Researchers asked 128 women about their interest in using avatars—virtual representations of themselves—as tools to help them lose weight. According to the findings, nearly 90 percent of women asked expressed an interest [...] Full Story	Top

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