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Harry Houdini's 137th Birthday - Google Doodle marks Harry Houdini's 137th B'day. Catch here all the latest news and updated reports on Birthday Today 24 March. Wish A very happy birthday to Harry Houdini! Google commemorating Harry Houdini's Happy 137th Birthday The master of escapology, Harry Houdini! You are one of my ... Full story

Bill Russell and fourteen others get Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama Bill Russell and fourteen others got Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Bill Russell is a former American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Bill Russell is a five-time winner of the NBA Most Valuable Player Award and a twelve-time All-Star. Bill ... Full story

Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton are among those attending Sargent Shriver's funeral. He was the brother-in-law of former President John F. Kennedy. Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church for Shriver's wake Friday night. Maria Shriver was among those paying their respects. Sargent Shriver died earlier this week at the age of 95. The ... Full story

Administrators and staff randomly search students for weapons on Los Angeles city school campuses, but officials acknowledged that it is nearly impossible to keep all weapons away from classrooms. This development is in response to the shooting out there. Two students were shot Tuesday at Gardena High School when a classmate's gun went off. The weapon ... Full story

Ranging 7.2on the Richter scale, a massive earthquake jolted southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday in a sparsely-populated area near the nation's borders with Iran and Afghanistan. There were no immediate reports of large casualties. The quake's epicenter was 30 miles west of Dalbandin, a town in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Television reports from Quetta, the provincial capital ... Full story

It was just one week ago that former homeless man with a ‘golden radio voice’ Ted Williams was plucked from the streets for a second chance at fame. And now he is back where he actually should be. After watching Ted’s life turn around in an instant – finding work and being reunited with his mother, Ted has admitted to drug and alcohol addictions in the past, The rehab ... Full story

A teenager from a central Israeli town committed suicide on Tuesday night after his friends on the social network Facebook teased and belittled him, and allegedly even encouraged him to take his own life. The boy was found in his room at home by a family member. A friend of the family said that the teens with ... Full story

The remains of Kristi Cornwell, a woman missing since 2009, have been identified in Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). Cornwell was identified through dental records, according to GBI spokesman John Bankhead . The killer has not yet been identified and there have been few leads. Cornwell had been missingsince Aug. 2009. The bones were found this past weekend ... Full story

The ski-lift accident at Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain Tuesday morning is the sort of incident that can convince an already timid skier never to sit on a lift again. Five chairs fell 25 to 30 feet to the ground when a cable derailed, injuring at least six people. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening. ... Full story

Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as "another way" to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. It was created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for the TV show Seinfeld, as part of a comical storyline on the show. The holiday's celebration, as shown ... Full story