A 29-year-old mother of three is recovering in an Alabama burn unit after her face caught fire during a routine surgery earlier this week.
Kim Grice, of Holt, Fla., was having three cysts removed from her head at a hospital in Crestview, Fla., on Tuesday when a flash fire erupted, torching her face and neck, family members told the Crestview News Bulletin.
BEIJING — Dirty needles at a private clinic have been blamed for an outbreak of hepatitis C among kids in central China, underscoring the challenges of policing healthcare as clinics mushroom to meet growing demand.
State media reported Tuesday that reuse of needles at a private clinic in Henan province's Maqiao township spread hepatitis C to at least 13 people,…
Police say more possible victims are coming forward in the case of a transgender woman in South Florida who was arrested Friday after allegedly injecting an unwitting patient’s buttocks with a handful of unsafe substances, including tire mender Fix-A-Flat, NBC reported.
Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was busted after a botched butt implant sent the…
A wind suit turned out to be a life-saving outfit for one unlucky parachute jumper in Florida.
Christopher Brewer, 27, nearly died on Saturday after jumping off the River Gorge Bridge as part of Bridge Day when his parachute didn't open, WCHS-TV reported.
The frightening incident was caught on video - including the moment when Brewer plummeted… Continue
Three toughs pulled off a choreographed plan to pass a gun between them like a hot potato before one of them opened fire at a teen outside a Brooklyn McDonald's - and all of it was caught on camera.
The chilling surveillance video, released by police Wednesday night, shows the artful rubout bid that nearly ended the life of Tyquan Sewall, 18, in… Continue
Um Oeung says 20-month-old Tha Sophat started suckling the cow in July after he saw a calf do the same.
Um Oeung told The Associated Press he pulled the boy away at first. He relented after his grandson protested loudly and the boy has suckled the cow's milk once or twice a day since then.
Tha Sophat has lived with his grandparents in Siem… Continue
Singer Cyndi Lauper committed a patriotic double-fault at the U.S. Open Saturday night: She badly bungled "The Star-Spangled Banner." Lauper's performance before the women's semifinal match between Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki got off to a fine start.
But things turned ugly when she reached the line beginning with, "O'er the… Continue
Grandma didn't get run over by a reindeer, but she did accidentally chop off her own hand using a power saw.
Pat Marvin, 64, was using the saw in her home in Columbus, Ohio when the accident happened. Doctors were able to reattach her sawn-off limb with an 8-hour surgery and she's already back to wiggling her fingers. Marvin is expected to make a full… Continue
The distraught girlfriend of a New Zealand man sat next to his dead body for hours after he choked and died while eating an in-flight meal.
Robert Rippingale, 31, was flying from Singapore, where he worked, to his native New Zealand last week to celebrate his parents' 50th birthdays, the New Zealand Herald reported.
An hour-and-a-half into the Jetstar Airline… Continue
Officials in the German city of Bonn just introduced a prostitution parking meter, where hookers pay $8.60 to receive a ticket good for one night's work on the streets.
Prostitution is legal in Germany, but officials say collecting taxes from streetwalkers is far more difficult than from women working in… Continue
A serial butt-slasher who has menaced female shoppers across a Virginia county is a bigger pain in the backside than first thought.
Three more victims came forward to police in Fairfax County Thursday and said they were victims of the derrière-targeting sicko - bringing his total number of strikes to nine, the Fairfax Times reported.
Snakes alive! A slithering serpent snuck up on a Memphis area family's SUV as they barrelled down a highway.
Rachel Fisher, 26, was at the wheel going about 65 miles an hour as the sizeable snake slid across her windshield. Her husband recorded 2 minutes and 24 seconds of the spectacle as she alternated between girly screams and nervous… Continue
Police in Virginia are trying to track down a man believed to have slashed at least five women on the butt.
A few days ago, an 18-year-old woman was shopping at Forever 21 in Fairfax, Virginia when she felt a sharp pain on her rear end, report from NBC Washington. She told police she thought at first that she had been struck with a clothes hanger. Only… Continue
A couple in China sold their three children for money to feed their video game obsession – and had no idea it was illegal, police said.
Li Lin and Li Juan met in an Internet café and when they first needed money to continue their obsession, sold their firstborn – a baby boy – for about $4600, according to a Chinese newspaper report translated by… Continue
An Oklahoma woman says a crazed motorist chased her for miles and rammed her off the road after mistaking her for Casey Anthony.
Sammay Blackwell, 26, feared for her life when her car was hit from behind with such force it flipped two and a half times in the air, landing on the driver's side.
"I said, 'Oh my God, help me,'" Blackwell told local Oklahoma TV… Continue
A northern California man was sucked into an ocean blowhole and killed while clowning around at a popular tourist spot in Maui, authorities said.
Dozens of tourists visiting Nakalele Point, the northernmost point of Maui, watched in horror on Saturday as David Potts, 44, of San Anselmo, Calif., was swept into the area's famous geyser-like blowhole after a violent… Continue