Three years ago, a panic-stricken teenage mother wrapped her 3-year-old in a garbage bag and left him on the curb - shivering and still alive.
Yesterday, she held him tight to her and kissed his head - grateful and happy to be celebrating his third birthday with him. “I regret it,” said the mom.
Neither she nor [...]

Nicaraguan villagers spent four days in shark-infested seas clinging to driftwood or smashed houses and boats after Hurricane Felix battered the Caribbean coast, survivors said today.
A Nicaraguan navy patrol boat brought 40 men and one woman ashore in the port of Puerto Cabezas after plucking them out of the sea or whisking them from battered, [...]

1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
1813 Oliver H. Perry sent the message, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing [...]