NEW YORK (WFAN) – Remember Joe Armento, the 6-year-old Giants fan who tried to lure Brandon Jacobs back to New York with the pickings from his piggy bank? Turns out the running back, now with San Francisco, paid him back on Wednesday — and then some. The youngster got a $5 bill fromContinue Reading
David State had two beautiful and life-changing events on the same day. He was one of the very few people to have the honor of carrying the Olympic torch through one leg of the 8,000 mile trek all around the U.K. Many say that he had an even larger honorContinue Reading
I was struggling to engage the audience. Okay, be honest, I tried not to let it show but I was dying onstage. Maybe I was having an off day. Maybe they were having an off day. Or maybe the fact every one of the 100 people in attendance was aContinue Reading
Eight rare Mexican wolf pups have been born at a preserve in Westchester, a development that could aid the federal program that has reintroduced the endangered species to the wild. The Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem announced online Monday that five males and three females were born SundayContinue Reading
A ten year old girl became the first person in the world to get a major blood vessel replaced by one grown using her own stem cells. A ten year old girl became the first person in the world to get a major blood vessel replaced by one grownContinue Reading
Economists are increasingly worried that many young Americans will spend coming years buried under student debt. Joe Mihalic was determined not to be one of them.Faced with $90,000 in student debt from his days at Harvard Business School, Mihalic vowed last August to eliminate every penny by this summer. HeContinue Reading
For most people, climbing Africa’s tallest mountain is an impossible achievement. But how about doing it without legs? For Spencer West, nothing is impossible. Or as he would put it: everything is possible. Nearly all of the 31-year-old American’s life has proven the doctors wrong. When they amputated both ofContinue Reading
It’s a deal that has worked throughout human history: Your parents take care of you when you are little and you return the favor when they are old. But sometimes the usual arrangement is turned on its head. Maria Garcia is 87 years old. After a rich and rewarding life, sheContinue Reading
HUECO TANKS STATE PARK AND HISTORIC SITE, Tex. — With a concentrated squint, Ashima Shiraishi silently sized up her first rock of the day, a menacing slab of jagged beige boulder 20 feet high, scuffed by white chalk left behind from bigger, older, more experienced climbers. Enlarge This Image ErichContinue Reading
Six years ago a Denver, Colorado man hit his head hard after diving into the shallow end of a pool. Days later, he sat down at a piano and discovered he was a musical genius. Derek Amato is one of just 30 “acquired savants” worldwide. Each discovered an inexplicable abiltyContinue Reading