Mauritius is facing a “state of environmental emergency” after a wrecked ship began breaking up, spilling oil into the Indian Ocean. The vessel ran aground at Pointe d’Esny on the east of the island nation in late July, according to local media reports and environmental campaigners. This is close to the Blue Bay Marine Park…… MORE
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If you ask Edmond Khnaisser to summarize the birth of his son, he’d tell you it was an adrenaline rush. And not because baby George is his firstborn, but because his son was born just moments after the massive Beirut explosion ripped through his wife’s hospital room. Edmond and his wife, Emma, checked into Saint…… MORE
As a grieving Beirut rebuilds its homes, businesses and lives, some Good Samaritans are making sure that one group of vulnerable residents are not forgotten. More than 190 volunteers have been scouring the streets of the blast-damaged city for lost pets. They search for animals trapped in the rubble, tend to the injured and care…… MORE
More than 19 million people around the world have now been infected with the coronavirus, and 715,024 have died. The number of new daily cases has topped 200,000 — a level not seen before July — for 23 days in row. In India, the number of infections surpassed 2 million today. The speed at which…… MORE
The glass and debris from Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut injured Imad Khalil and Lina Alameh, but both say they are lucky to be alive. The husband and wife now lay in a local hospital room, together, recovering from the glass and debris that tore through their apartment — and them. Lina needed three hours of…… MORE
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Doctored videos of Tuesday’s devastating explosion in Beirut are already circulating on every major social media platform. In videos originally shot by both CNN and eyewitnesses in the Lebanese capital, footage of a rising smoke plume at Beirut Port was inverted and made to look like a “negative.” In addition, a missile-like object was superimposed…… MORE
Sometime during the Cretaceous period, 99 million years ago, a prehistoric hell ant trapped a tasty treat — a relative of the cockroach — in its scythe-like jaw and protruding horn. It’s still there. The act was captured in tree resin and later unearthed in amber in what is now Myanmar. The unusual find shows…… MORE
For more than a hundred years, the fossil of the Tanystropheus has puzzled scientists. The strange reptile — resembling a real-life Loch Ness Monster or a prehistoric crocodile crossed with a giraffe — was first described in 1852 and first reconstructed in 1973. Palaeontologists have long known that the species once lived in Switzerland’s Monte…… MORE
It was a wild night in the Tennessee Valley. Storms raged as teams tried to complete their Week 1 games. Join Cowboy and Coca-Cola Red Zone Sideline Reporter Jeff Cate as they discuss the wet and wild action of Week 1 High School Football.
Check out some of our favorite Superbowl commercials! Amazon, “Alexa Loses Her Voice” (BTW, you can listen to WGOW-FM on Alexa by saying, “Alexa, enable the Talk One Oh Two Point Three skill!” and to WGOW-AM by saying, “Alexa, enable the News W-G-O-W skill!”) NFL, “Touchdown Celebrations to Come” Budweiser, “Stand By You” Doritos, “DORITOS BLAZE…
On Monday, there was a proliferation of “pink sky” shots sent in by listeners. Followed by obligatory, condescending “explanation of phenomenon” by meteorologists. Best example I’ve ever seen…lasted 5 mins, or so at Henson’s Gap/Lewis Chapel Mtn., overlooking Dunlap, Tn. Launch ramp of “Tennessee TreeToppers” hanggliding club.
I boycotted the NFL for 2 years. And I had a good reason….not faux-outrage from the right nor the left. But I digress. I hear the calls for protests…for boycotts of the NFL over Colin Kaepernick’s not being signed by any NFL team as quarterback. They say it’s because of the former 49’ers QB’s…