Anna Gasser, a decorated Austrian snowboarder, produced another milestone in women’s snowboarding Tuesday when the Olympic gold medalist became the first female to land a triple cork. Training on her home turf of Stubai Glacier during a four-week camp for pro (…)
Distance swimmers in the annual Swim the Loop competition in North Carolina were trying to focus on their strokes Saturday when cries of “Shark!” filed the air. Concern was understandable. A large dorsal fin sliced across the surface of the Intracoastal Waterway, near a (…)
A British angler on holiday in Hungary has caught a massive carp that placed him in rare company among his countrymen. The 102-pound mirror carp, which Luke Vanes described as “a bit of a creature – a monster,” was weighed in a sling and released after its capture last (…)
Kayak fisherman Bryan Machado had a line in the water and his feet hanging over the sides “as I normally do” when what officials believe was a great white shark bit into the side of his kayak. “It was terrifying,” he told North Coast Courier. “All I remember (…)
Two Indiana hunters are recovering from wounds sustained when their dog knocked over a shotgun propped inside their hunting blind, causing the weapon to discharge. Adam Daugherty, 30, and Jeremy Legge, 37, were shot in the ankles during their ill-fated waterfowl hunt Saturday (…)
Southern California’s devastating Woolsey Fire, which has charred more than 96,000 acres and destroyed more than 400 structures in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, appears to have spared at least some of the region’s mountain lions. The Santa Monica Mountains National (…)
Firefighters in a hovercraft came upon an unusual and inexplicable scene while patrolling a frozen lake in Russia: a dog was frozen into the ice by its tail and hind legs. The Zabaikalsk firefighters rescue squad had been looking for stranded people on Lake Kenon in the (…)
