Simple Fitness Test Could Offer Clue About Life Expectancy In Older Adults Simple Fitness Test Could Offer Clue About Life Expectancy In Older Adults
Simple Fitness Test Could Offer Clue About Life Expectancy In Older Adults How well an older adult performs on a few simple physical tests could offer an important clue about longevity. A large study published Monday, Aug. 10, in JAMA Network Open evaluated measures of balance, agility, lower-body strength, and cardiovascular fitness in adults aged 65 and older. Researchers found these physical factors were strongly associated with mortality risk during a seven-year follow-up period. Researchers analyzed 13,423 adults in Taiwan who completed standardized physical fitness assessments between 2015 and 2016. Their results were linked to national health records, allow…
Severe Burns Spark Huge Recall Of Popular Tabletop Fire Pits Severe Burns Spark Huge Recall Of Popular Tabletop Fire Pits
Severe Burns Spark Huge Recall Of Popular Tabletop Fire Pits Nearly 49,000 tabletop fire pits are being recalled after two people suffered serious burns, officials said. Southern Telecom issued the recall for about 48,700 Brookstone-branded Tabletop Fire Pits, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Thursday, Aug. 13. The fire pits can cause uncontrolled pool fires and flames jetting from fuel containers, creating a risk of serious or deadly burns. Brooklyn, New York-based Southern Telecom has received two reports of flame jetting and flames escaping from the concrete container. Two people suffered second- and third-degree burns, acc…
New Expedition For Amelia Earhart's Plane Targets Mysterious Object: 'Something Is There' New Expedition For Amelia Earhart's Plane Targets Mysterious Object: 'Something Is There'
New Expedition For Amelia Earhart's Plane Targets Mysterious Object: 'Something Is There' One of aviation's greatest mysteries could finally get a new answer. Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute are leading an expedition to investigate an object researchers believe could be Amelia Earhart's long-lost airplane. The trailblazing pilot and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on Friday, July 2, 1937, while attempting to fly around the world. A 16-person team will travel in October to examine the "Taraia Object," an object seen in satellite imagery sitting in a lagoon on Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island between Hawaii and Australia. "Someth…
Back For Another Peek: Maryland 'Peeper' Busted In Rockville After Virginia Visits Back For Another Peek: Maryland 'Peeper' Busted In Rockville After Virginia Visits
Back For Another Peek: Maryland 'Peeper' Busted In Rockville After Virginia Visits A Maryland man accused of making a habit of creeping where he shouldn't be has landed himself behind bars. Landon Anthony Taylor, 42, was arrested in Rockville on Friday, Aug. 14, following a pair of alleged late-night peeping incidents outside a woman's home in the Franconia area of Fairfax County, police announced on Saturday. According to investigators, Taylor's alleged window-watching first came to their attention at around 10:25 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, when officers were called to the 5900 block of Coverdale Way, where a woman reported spotting a man peeping through her window. But ap…
Teen Chased Armed Robber For Stolen Backpack Before Deadly DC Shooting, Feds Say Teen Chased Armed Robber For Stolen Backpack Before Deadly DC Shooting, Feds Say
Teen Chased Armed Robber For Stolen Backpack Before Deadly DC Shooting, Feds Say A stolen backpack turned into a death sentence for a 17-year-old Maryland-area teen. Jermaine Durbin was near the entrance to the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station in Northeast DC at approximately 7:20 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, when Javier Montgomery robbed him at gunpoint, according to federal prosecutors. Durbin wanted his backpack back. The 17-year-old followed Montgomery, who ultimately shot and killed him, prosecutors said. Now, more than 10 months after Durbin was found dying on Rhode Island Avenue, Montgomery has admitted to the killing and a string of armed sexual assaults tar…
Montgomery Village Man Who Started DC Bar Fight, Pulled Gun On Rival Learns Prison Fate: Feds Montgomery Village Man Who Started DC Bar Fight, Pulled Gun On Rival Learns Prison Fate: Feds
Montgomery Village Man Who Started DC Bar Fight, Pulled Gun On Rival Learns Prison Fate: Feds A Maryland man who pulled out a gun and killed his rival during a bar fight he was losing in DC is set to spend decades in prison, federal authorities announced. Montgomery Village native Robert Lowe, 42, was convicted by a Superior Court jury in DC in connection with the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Kenneth Goins in April 2024. This week, the convicted felon was sentenced to 21 years in prison for second-degree murder while armed and other offenses. According to the government’s evidence presented at trial, shortly after 1 a.m. on April 27, 2024, Lowe and Goins were inside Desperados Bur…
Mom Tried Shielding Daughter, 5, As Bullets Tore Through Maryland Home: Family Mom Tried Shielding Daughter, 5, As Bullets Tore Through Maryland Home: Family
Mom Tried Shielding Daughter, 5, As Bullets Tore Through Maryland Home: Family Na’Ryah Adams should have been picking out school clothes and getting ready for kindergarten. Instead, a Maryland family is planning a funeral for the 5-year-old after gunfire tore through their home before dawn on Tuesday, Aug. 11, killing a little girl remembered for her contagious smile, karaoke sessions, and excitement about making new friends. Adams was sleeping beside her mother, Mia, and Mia’s fiancé when their home in the 3900 block of Ocean Gateway in Linkwood was targeted in what a GoFundMe campaign organized for the family described as a drive-by shooting. Mia tried to protect h…
Maryland Child Sex Abuser Could Lose US Citizenship Over What He Hid From Feds: ICE Maryland Child Sex Abuser Could Lose US Citizenship Over What He Hid From Feds: ICE
Maryland Child Sex Abuser Could Lose US Citizenship Over What He Hid From Feds: ICE Jimmy Aguero's past may cost him his future as a US citizen. Federal officials are seeking to strip the 51-year-old Peruvian native of his citizenship after a Maryland jury convicted him of sexually abusing his minor stepdaughter, conduct the government says he concealed while going through the naturalization process. And the timeline is damning. According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Aguero repeatedly sexually abused his stepdaughter between 2013 and 2015. In 2014, while the abuse was occurring, Aguero applied to become a naturalized US citizen, ICE said. On that applicati…
Man Admits To Beating 2-Year-Old Boy To Death In Attacks Caught On Video In DC: Feds Man Admits To Beating 2-Year-Old Boy To Death In Attacks Caught On Video In DC: Feds
Man Admits To Beating 2-Year-Old Boy To Death In Attacks Caught On Video In DC: Feds A 27-year-old man is facing a lengthy prison stay after admitting to his role in the violent death of his toddler in 2022, federal authorities announced on Friday. District resident Dasean Matthews, 27, pleaded guilty to beating 2-year-old Mars Jones, causing his death in October 2022. On Oct. 13, 2022, prosecutors say the boy's mother and Matthews, who was her romantic partner, drove to a Dunkin Donuts location shortly before noon. While inside the business, video evidence shows Matthews striking the young child with a closed fist in the upper body, causing Mars to fall and slam against a…
Ex-Cambridge Professor Found Dead Amid Plagiarism Scandal: Reports Ex-Cambridge Professor Found Dead Amid Plagiarism Scandal: Reports
Ex-Cambridge Professor Found Dead Amid Plagiarism Scandal: Reports Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism scandal, has been found dead at his home in London, England, according to multiple published reports. He was 41 years old. Arday's death came one week after he resigned from the University of Cambridge, where he became the youngest Black professor when he was hired as a sociology professor in 2023. Police were called to a report of an unresponsive man inside a London property on Friday, Aug. 14, NBC News reports, citing London's Metropolitan Police. The man, whom NBC identified as Arday, was pronounced dead at the scene. Hi…
Seven Broken Vertebrae Leave Young Maryland Father Facing Long Road To Walking Again Seven Broken Vertebrae Leave Young Maryland Father Facing Long Road To Walking Again
Seven Broken Vertebrae Leave Young Maryland Father Facing Long Road To Walking Again One moment, Donovan Raymond was always on the move. Now, the young Maryland father is fighting to learn how to walk again. Raymond, a 27-year-old electrician and father of two, suffered devastating injuries in a serious car crash on Aug. 3, according to his loved ones in District Heights. The crash left Raymond with seven broken vertebrae and the loss of most function in his right leg, his family said Donovan Raymond GoFundMe He has since undergone surgery to fuse the seven damaged vertebrae. Now comes the next fight. Learning to walk again. Donovan Raymond G…
'Marion Murders' Mystery Turns 20 As Detectives In Virginia Hunt For Killer 'Marion Murders' Mystery Turns 20 As Detectives In Virginia Hunt For Killer
'Marion Murders' Mystery Turns 20 As Detectives In Virginia Hunt For Killer Two women. Two miles apart. One killer. And 20 years later, still no murderer. Fairfax County detectives marked a grim anniversary on Friday, Aug. 14, as they renewed their hunt for the person who strangled and beat Marion Marshall and Marion Newman to death in Springfield months apart in 2006. The "Marion Murders" have gone cold. The detectives working them haven't. Marshall was last seen on Aug. 14, 2006, after shopping at the Bradlick Shopping Center. Police believe she encountered her killer after returning to her home in the 6600 block of Bostwick Drive. She was found dead later…