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A mentally ill Florida man was arrested for allegedly beating his mother and stabbing his girlfriend’s eyes before throwing their 1-year-old daughter out of a window Saturday, authorities said.Pierre Francois, 29, first attacked his mother in their Fort Lauderdale home by beating her with a two-by-four as she demanded him to stop hurting her during a schizophrenic episode, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said.

The senior doctor, named as Vladimir Naumov, has now been fired for his violent actions by the regional health ministry. Ms Dmitrieva, believed to be aged 20, went to the hospital so that her injuries could be registered, allowing her to make a complaint to police over the nightclub incident. She also wanted treatment for her wounds. Health chiefs rejected the doctor’s explanation that at the nightclub he had been defending a midwife who was attacked by a gang of women. Naumov said: “I couldn’t stand there and watch this massacre. “Any man would have tried to stop such a...

President Donald Trump reportedly isn't adjusting well to life in the White House after his first month in office. That's according to Axios' Mike Allen's latest newsletter, in which he writes that a Trump adviser told him the president is experiencing "cabin fever" in the White House. Trump is reportedly experiencing headaches and frustration that he can't spend his evenings dining at restaurants like he could around Trump Tower in his old neighborhood in New York City. Trump's campaign-style rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday — during which he castigated the news media and mentioned a nonexistent incident in Sweden...

Snow surrounded a car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during early morning hours on Feb. 7, 1978. The 1978 blizzard blanketed much of the region with snow on Feb. 6 and 7, with 27.1 inches accumulating at Logan Airport. [snip] Gandolf, an Irish setter, watched Martine Carroll, 14, walk down Trenton Street. [snip]

I developed a detailed thread topic called "Summer in January", complete with pictures of beautiful people in bathing suits, satellite photos of snow cover in the northern hemisphere, and a fascinating story about 85 inch snow drifts in Denver. But you're not getting that thread because my computer decided to crash. Instead, you're getting a bare bones, low budget thread held together with duck tape and a prayer.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man was shot to death by his wife after giving her a can of warm beer, police said. The shooting happened Sunday. Names have not been released. The woman was taken into custody. The wife allegedly admitted shooting her husband, who was about 70 years old, in the kitchen of their home. The man was shot four or five times in the chest after giving his wife a can of warm Stag beer. The house was among thousands in the St. Louis area that lost power after a winter storm hit the region Thursday.

Yesterday, Tulsa saw temperatures drop from 70 degrees F to 45 degrees F within one minute's time. Tornado watches were issued ahead of the front with spotty reports of hail. As the storm progressed through Tulsa, thunderstorms pummeled the region with heavy rain and dangerous lightning (one strike hit a Catoosa home and burned it to the ground). The rain continued unabated throughout the evening giving some parts of drought-striken Oklahoma three to four inches of rain with the remaining counties receiving at least two inches of precipitation. Temperatures continued to drop in the overnight. The rain became ice and...

Just an observation. I pulled out my surf CDs since the mercury cracked 40, the sun came out, and the snow and ice is melting like crazy. Holy Cow! I have a lawn!

Space spat forces crew change Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian (UK) In space no one can hear you scream - at your fellow astronaut. Russian officials have dropped two of the astronauts intended to become the international space station's next crew because they were deemed "psychologically incompatible". Russian Valery Tokarev and American Leroy Chiao - known as the Expedition 9 crew - were due to take off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 19. But yesterday a space agency spokesman said the crew would be changed because the two men appear to have...

One of the most popular perennial topics when birdwatchers start talking is how birds are used on TV and in movies. When watching a show, birders are always horrified to hear birds that would not really be singing in that place in that situation. Televised golf tournaments in recent years are produced with a fake soundtrack using a variety of recorded bird songs. To me, this seems insidiously misleading, since it's done so seamlessly that people may actually subconsciously think that golf courses support a lot more varieties of birds than they actually do. The golf course habitat is certainly...

<p>Unless the sun bursts through the clouds today and remains bright and visible the rest of winter, Pittsburgh will easily surpass the average winter's "gloomy day factor."</p> <p>From Oct. 1 through Sunday, we had 96 days of mostly cloudy to fully cloudy skies -- about two days shy of the 30-year-average expected through the end of February. National Weather Service forecasters in Moon say they don't track record cloudiness, but this year is definitely on track to be more dismal than usual.</p>