The US has just taken hard action to rescue the abducted girls from the hands of the terrorist group 'Boko Haram'. Our military has just deployed an elite team of 80 US special forces troops to the country of Chad to assist their government with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for missions over northern Nigeria - it has been reported that...
After 4 years of seeing the same incredible skyline, Charlotte residents and photographers will finally have some new reasons to stare at our city. Crescent Communities unveiled plans for two very ambitious projects; the first one is a $10.3 million, 27 story mixed use development at the corner of Tryon St. and Stonewall, directly diagonal from the Duke Energy Building,...
Some of the most iconic streets on the east coast are now in danger of rising sea levels. According to a report that was just released by the 'Union of Concerned Scientists', Charleston's Historic District was one of the key landmarks (a total of 50 were identified around America) that was identified as being threatened by rising sea levels.
Scientists say...
There's a growing epidemic in America - stereotyping young professionals with 'baby-faces'. Held-back promotions, failed interviews, and rejection from the 'in-crowd' are just a few of the problems that many are facing. Thanks to modern science, we are now discovering some ways to reverse the signs of youth, to actually turn the clock forward on the aging process and help...
Every year on May 20th, Charlotte (Mecklenburg County) celebrates 'MecDec Day'. A celebration of Charlotte being the first city in America to declare its independence from England.
In 1775 the 13 British Colonies in North American were contemplating a break from Great Britain. As word of the Boston Tea Party spread through the North Carolina Colony, people in Mecklenburg County decided to have a meeting,...
"...stop believing in those who cast doubt upon you, and to start believing in yourselves..."
As Parker Mantell made his way the podium to deliver Indiana University’s commencement speech, he confessed that he might not have been the obvious choice to deliver the address.
“As a person who stutters, I can be no more certain that, in this room and in this hall, are...
Many doctors are considering a man named Miguel Cruz to be a walking and driving miracle. He is about to turn 103 years young this summer, and just had open-heart surgery.
He's a pool shark who drives himself almost every day, talks politics and sports with his “crew” at his local restaurant, he washes his own laundry, pays his own...
The most shocking discovery in the history of South Korea may have just taken place. Park Si-chan had trouble sleeping the night before the biggest trip of his young life, a four-day journey with his entire junior high school class to a lush volcanic island known here as the "Hawaii of Korea."
The trip was the students' last chance for...
It is clear that the majority of large Southern California fires that have been spreading over the past several years have been direct results of recent years were found to have human causes.
There was a fallen power line in 2007 near San Diego that set off a fire that scorched nearly 200,000 acres and killed two people.
In 2009, small sparks from a weed cutter are thought...