Daily Archives: June 15, 2012

By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) -- Cloaked in darkness and enveloped by mist, aerialist Nik Wallenda walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope late Friday and into the record books.

It was a historic walk that observers say was in line with his appetite for the extreme and the high-wire customs of his "Flying Wallendas" family.

Pumping his fist in the air, Wallenda sprinted the last few steps on the wire.

Headline and photo don't really match do they...  via Scott Harris on twitter.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dana Pack spent so many years feeling bad while dealing with debilitating, energy-draining abdominal pain, that she’d forgotten what it was like to feel good.

Twelve years ago doctors found tumors on Pack’s liver –– too many to count –– and, although benign, they just kept growing.

“Like, I would go to work… and by the time I’d come home, the one tumor that was hanging off the front, it would be protruding like it was trying to bust through my skin," she remembered.

By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) -- A North Georgia man is charged with murder after authorities say he put vodka in his 4-month-old's baby bottle, leading to her death -- an incident that his public defender says was an accident.

The infant girl died June 8, 2011, after she drank the vodka. Just over a year later, a DeKalb County grand jury indicted her father, Keith Antonine Furlow, on felony murder and second-degree cruelty to children, according to the court document filed Thursday.

Quake-hit Afghan village could become mass grave

by Staff Writers
Mullah Jan, Afghanistan (AFP)

An Afghan village where more than 70 people are believed to have been buried in an earthquake-triggered landslide could be declared a mass grave, an official said Wednesday.

Two shallow tremors less than half an hour apart on Monday unleashed a deluge of rock and earth that smashed into the remote village of Mullah Jan, in the mountainous Hindu Kush region.

FALL RIVER —

Latasha Singletary was charged with robbing Anna’s Liquors three times in the course of 24 hours.

It is the same store that she was charged with robbing slightly more than a year ago, police allege.

Singletary, 30, of 36 Baker St., was arraigned Thursday on one count of armed robbery while masked and two counts of armed robbery.

It seems Today host Matt Lauer has figured out how to gain or well amass  a huge following in a very short time. Lauer joined Twitter last night, and reportedly amassed 87,000 followers in a matter of 15 minutes thanks to his almost-weird tweeting about Justin Bieber...

Wait... better thank Justin's tweet asking Lauer to be followed for that one.