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Steve Faber/Getty Images/iStockphoto The Bordeaux waterfront was the site of the tragic drowning of a young student. Now his mother is suing a pair because they didn’t help him. The mother of a French student who drowned while drunk is suing a couple who did nothing to help him. Nineteen-year-old Vincent Zecca died in 2102 after a boozy night in ...

Jerry Coleman, truly a man for all seasons – a decorated war hero, Yankee World Series MVP and iconic, Hall-of-Fame San Diego Padres broadcaster – died Sunday at age 89, after a career of more than 70 years in baseball, the Padres announced. Coleman, a baseball treasure, signed originally with the Yankees out of the San Francisco sandlots in 1942, ...

It’s a common showbiz lament: No good roles for women. But while there’s always room for improvement in this area, Broadway’s 2014 roster of musicals is jammed with juicy female characters. They’re all dealing with hard decisions about love, career, marriage, fidelity and faith — and sometimes all at once. That doesn’t even include plays. This is all on tap ...

THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Gregory Fischer The director of adult cardiothoracic anesthesia at Mount Sinai, Dr. Gregory Fischer specializes in taking care of patients who are undergoing heart and lung surgeries, including echocardiography. Eighty percent of his patients have mitral valve problems. WHO’S AT RISK The heart’s mitral valve doesn’t get a lot of attention from the public, but doctors estimate ...

John Carucci/AP Actor Chazz Palminteri (pictured) says former protege Lillo Brancato — who was involved in a burglary that led to a cop’s death — has ‘made monumentally bad choices.’ Actor Chazz Palminteri offered a harsh rebuke to former protege Lillo Brancato: Don’t call me — and I won’t ever call you. The Bronx-born Oscar nominee told the Daily News ...

THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Gregory Fischer The director of adult cardiothoracic anesthesia at Mount Sinai, Dr. Gregory Fischer specializes in taking care of patients who are undergoing heart and lung surgeries, including echocardiography. Eighty percent of his patients have mitral valve problems. WHO’S AT RISK The heart’s mitral valve doesn’t get a lot of attention from the public, but doctors estimate ...

Margaret Stephenson/Getty Images/iStockphoto A Kuwaiti woman filed for divorce saying she was disgusted at the sight of her groom using bread to scoop up his peas instead of a fork. A Kuwaiti newlywed filed for divorce after getting angry at the way her husband eats his peas. The bride, married for just one week, reportedly tried to ditch her spouse ...

Bill Kostroun/AP Pete Carroll’s Seahawks are favored to meet Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. From Lambeau Field to Las Vegas, cheeseheads, Aaron Rodgers aficionados and, perhaps most importantly, the oddsmakers, took note of Rodgers’ return to form in the regular-season finale, rallying the Packers to a last-minute victory in Chicago. He pulled it off in snowy conditions and altogether put ...

ABC News Robert Mawhinney tried to pay his band’s way to success with $ 11 million in bank loans. If Jordan Belfort is the Wolf of Wall Street, this guy is the lobo of Los Angeles. Rocker Robert Mawhinney, the former front man for American punk band Lights Over Paris, painted a picture of lavish success — complete with champagne, ...

KCCI An after and Before picture of John Cisna, a science teacher at Colo Nesco school in Colo Iowa who did a McDonald’s diet for 90 days and actually lost 37 pounds. An Iowa science teacher actually supersized his weight loss by eating McDonald’s. That’s right, weight loss. RELATED: MCDONALD’S YANKS WEBSITE WARNING EMPLOYEES TO AVOID EATING FAST FOOD KCCI ...