Man injured in collision with responding firefighter
A 35-year-old man was critically injured in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday night when his car was struck by a firefighter who was on his way to a house fire.
Minnesota man tells hospital he’s Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, hospital says “ok!”
Pro tip for people without health insurance looking to cash in on thousands and thousands of dollars in medical treatment: tell the good medical folks at the hospital that you’re a gen-yoo-ine celebrity. Then they’ll do it for free! No questions asked. Literally no questions asked, apparently, in the case of this Minnesota man who strolled into a St. Cloud hospital and told everyone that he was Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour. To which they apparently replied something like, “Oh, hey, cool. Loved Dark Side of the Moon. Come on in and take advantage of our services, on the house!”
Hospitalized suspect in Boston bombings awaits charges
The badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect faced federal charges as early as Monday and the city of Boston planned tributes to the dead after a week of blasts, shootouts, lockdowns and one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history.
Mass. General surgeon: ‘I could see the smiles’ as Obama visited Marathon bombing patients
A Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon said he could see the smiles of the Boston Marathon bombing victims as they visited with President Barack Obama at the hospital Thursday.
3 dead, more than a hundred hurt in Boston Marathon explosions
Massachusetts General Hospital is treating at least four patients who had “traumatic amputations of their legs” from the explosion at the Boston Marathon, the hospital’s chief of emergency services said.
Three hospitalized in South Philadelphia fire
An overnight fire in a South Philadelphia apartment building sent three people to the hospital for treatment of complications due to smoke inhalation.
Nelson Mandela back in hospital
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government [...]
Justin Bieber ‘under the weather’, but expects to perform
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was feeling “a little under the weather” on Friday, a day after collapsing on stage, but plans to perform.
Former New York mayor Ed Koch dies at 88
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died on Friday at age 88 after a year
of repeated hospitalizations, a spokesman for Koch said.
Porn star Ron Jeremy hospitalized with aneurysm
Veteran pornography actor Ron Jeremy, one of the industry’s biggest
stars, was in intensive care and undergoing surgery for an aneurysm near
his heart in Los Angeles, his manager said on Wednesday.