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CLEVELAND (AP) — The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he's not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it.
"I never told these people they could use my name for this," Charles Ramsey said in a written statement released through attorney, Patricia Walker .
The restaurant where Ramsey worked as a dishwasher initially created a special burger named his honor, called the Ramsey Burger . Then more than a dozen area eateries had decided a larger tribute was due.
Ramsey said he doesn't endorse the northeast Ohio restaurants that are offering burgers bearing the Ramsey name, or that are promoting a lifetime of free burgers for him.
The owner of the restaurant group said in a statement Friday evening that
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawsuit filed by two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over claims he sent racy text messages has been settled, a lawyer for the women said Friday.
Lawyer David Jaroslawicz wouldn't comment on the terms of the settlement, saying only that the case had been ''resolved and discontinued.''
Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole had alleged in a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages that in 2008, while Favre was playing for the New York Jets , they lost their part-time jobs with the team after complaining that he sent sexually suggestive texts to another therapist.
During the 2008 preseason, the lawsuit alleged, the three-time NFL MVP sent another woman a text message asking to get together with her and Scavo, followed by another text saying, ''I guess I have bad intentions.''
After Scavo's husband asked Favre to apologize, she and O'Toole lost gigs with
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TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack.
Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after a week of silence and after close allies released a letter urging him to address the video. The video apparently shows Ford smoking crack.
"I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine," he said before going on to criticize the media.
Ford had been ducking the media and his only comments before Friday on the scandal came a week ago, a day after the story broke, when he called the crack smoking allegations "ridiculous" and said the Toronto Star newspaper was out
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A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed …
In the words of William Ray Fullmer: ‘My nephew, Sgt. Derek Tillman Roberts, spilled his blood on the sands of …
The circumstances of their deaths are different. But the same words—"loyal," "honorable," "selfless," "smart" and "fearless"—surfaced again and again this week when family and friends remembered the American military service members close to them who sacrificed their lives for their country.
Yahoo News invited readers to mark Memorial Day by sharing their memories. Below are excerpts from their stories, which we published this week.
Charles Leon Gilliland (Photo courtesy of Deb Cooper) Tales of young bravery: Decades after Charles Leon Gilliland died in battle in Korea, his sister-in-law still feels guilty about his death.
Gilliland, just 17 when he was killed in 1951, had written her letters asking for bullets for his pistol. She didn’t send them, fearing it would land her in trouble. According to Deb Cooper, who shared
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done last month in the area of the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not yet determined a cause of the May 17 crash that injured more than 70 people and disrupted service for days on the railroad used by tens of thousands of commuters north of New York City.
But the NTSB did say that a joint bar, used to hold two sections of rail together, had been cracked and repaired last month and that rail sections in the area of the derailment have been shipped to Washington for further examination.
Metro-North railroad is conducting an inspection and inventory of all the
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Storm chasers from an outfit called Fast Unit 70's uploaded raw footage of the first 10 minutes of the Moore, Okla., tornado that gives viewers a harrowing sense of what the EF5 twister looked like.
As cars and trucks zoom past, Chance Coldiron and Justin Cox's camera focuses on the dark grey funnel as it touches down. The tornado then tightens and begins to pick up debris. After a few minutes, someone can be heard saying, "It hit a house." Cars are then seen tossed into the air as the sky turns even more menacing. Urgent warnings can be heard on the storm chasers' car radio telling people to get underground.
YouTube user justincox81 posted the clip and wrote this in the description field:
Raw footage of Fast Unit 70's (Chance Coldiron & Justin Cox) coverage of the Moore tornado that was used by KOCO5 during the event on May
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy , using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's " Jersey Shore " to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.
In fact, they even hired fun. — the rock band whose anthem "We Are Young" captures the spirit of this blue-collar oceanfront playground that was devastated by the Oct. 29 storm and has been furiously rebuilding ever since. The band played a free concert on the beach.
"This is known as a happy place," said Paul "Pauly D" Del Vecchio, one of the cast members of "Jersey Shore," which was filmed here until wrapping up last year. "Right after the storm, it was the exact opposite: dead, silent. To see this place being rebuilt makes me happy."
Christie, who
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3-D Printed Gun (ABC News)
The DIY 3-D gun may not be quite ready for prime time.
According to Techworld , the police commissioner in Australia’s New South Wales, Andrew Scipione, has issued a warning after his officers tested one of the firearms—dubbed the "Liberator"—and experienced a “catastrophic misfire” (no one was seriously injured).
According to the website, the NSW police used blueprints created by Defense Distributed to make two pistols that took 27 hours to create from start to finish. The cost for materials was $35 (the desktop 3-D printer costs some $1,700). Except for the firing pin and the pistol cartridge, all the pieces were plastic.
Despite the technical glitches, the NSW police force sees the printable gun as a potentially big problem, with Scipione calling the Liberator "truly undetectable, untraceable, cheap and easy to make."
Defense Distributed's plans, reports Techworld, were downloaded 100,000 times before the company
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