There’s nothing a Jersey girl can’t do. That sentiment rang true when a 29-year-old young woman from the Garden State saved her own life after she was hit by a train in early May. Lisa Fitzgerald was struck by a New Jersey Transit (NJT) train at the Morristown train station in northern New Jersey on May 5. Lisa’s stepmother Stacie …
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Pressure to find Mr. or Mrs. Right can be stressful. Even with more channels today than ever for meeting people, with dating apps, singles meetups and more, it can still be difficult to find someone you click with. The “meet cute” is a term reserved for cinema and television when two people meet in a charming way for the first …
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Florida officers recently made a wild “arrest” at the home of a 104-year-old woman who was visited by a 5-foot-long reptile. Officials with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted the video of the incident on Facebook after two officers received a call asking for a nuisance alligator to be removed from the resident’s property. “The citizen was noted to be afraid …
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FIRST ON FOX: With nearly two-thirds of nurses in the United States experiencing burnout — including 69% of those under 25 years of age, according to the American Nurses Association — many in the industry are calling for change. A recent survey by AMN Healthcare, a health care workforce solutions company based in Texas, found that most nurses aren’t optimistic …
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Feeding peanut butter to babies — starting during infancy and continuing until age 5 — has been shown effective in reducing allergies into adolescence, according to a new study by King’s College London. The LEAP-Trio study, published on Tuesday in NEJM Evidence, showed that children who consumed peanuts early in life were 71% less likely to develop peanut allergies all …
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Fruits and veggies are an important part of a balanced diet — and also balanced sleep. A new study from Finland looked into how fruit and vegetable consumption in Finnish adults impacted sleep duration. The research considered data from the National FinHealth 2017 Study, which involved 5,043 adults over the age of 18. FEELING HUNGRIER THAN USUAL? YOUR SLEEP SCHEDULE …
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Many popular sayings used by all of us in everyday life often have fun and interesting back stories — with some more well known than others. With thousands of words in the English language —and too many vocabulary words to really know the meaning of all, at least for most people —some are bound to have multiple variations or meanings. …
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Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers chased 7-pound wheels of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese in each race gets to keep it. …
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Fame member James Francis “Jim” Thorpe came into this world on this day in history, May 28, 1888. Born in a one-room cabin in the geographical area that is now Oklahoma, Thorpe was raised by Hiram and Charlotte Vieux Thorpe on the Sac and Fox reservation, according to the Oklahoma Historical …
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A 95-pound catfish became a gigantic feast after an Oklahoma fisherman recently reeled it in. Bradly Courtright caught the massive catfish while fishing in southeastern Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC). In a Facebook post on Tuesday, the department explained that the fish was caught with a trotline – which is often used for catfishing. “Bradly …
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