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Richie Faulkner was performing on stage when he felt something strange in his chest. It turned out to be his aorta rupturing, a condition only about one in five people survive.

Donna and Todd Skinner grew a squash that stands about chest-high. It weighs 2,164 pounds. That's more than a ton — the same as an old Volkswagen Beetle or the Liberty Bell.

In January 1940, Irving Berlin, the most popular songwriter in America, raced into his office and asked his musical secretary to take down a new song. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on the history of "White Christmas," a song Berlin said was the best he — or anyone — ever wrote.

In a mid-term report card, Secretary of State Colin Powell earns the highest grades among members of the Bush Cabinet, according to a National Journal study. Powell receives the only 'A' in the magazine's report card, which grades the department heads on such criteria as their influence within the administration. NPR's Bob Edwards interviews Jim Barnes, the weekly's chief political correspondent, about the report.

Manfred Steiner dreamed of being a physicist but his parents convinced him to be a doctor. When he retired, he enrolled in a PhD program. Weeks before his 90th birthday, he defended his dissertation.

Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say they are continuing to deal with COVID-19 issues in the Kingman jail. The Adult Detention facility identified 16 inmates who tested positive for the virus this week out of 34 inmates.

Adele is the first female artist to have an album spend 10 consecutive years on Billboard's top 200. She's only the tenth artist to hit the milestone, joining the likes of Metallica and Bob Marley.

Sometimes the sky really is falling. In suburban Pittsburgh, a loud explosion shook homes and baffled residents. The National Weather Service weighed in with a likely cause: exploding space rock.

The tide was rising and Millie was about to be engulfed. Rescuers attached a cooked sausage to a drone and flew it tantalizingly close to the dog, who followed the treat to higher ground.

OnPoint Laboratory, a marijuana-testing lab based in Snowflake, will pay nearly half-a-million dollars in fines for repeated inspection violations.