A Long-Distance Runaway
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Mike Jones sets a school record with nine 3-pointers and scores a career-high 27 points, leading Maryland to a 101-50 rout of Missouri-Kansas City on Wednesday.
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Bidding his desk job goodbye, a web designer is taking his Segway scooter on a cross-country trek from Seattle to Boston. Friends are documenting the 10-mile-per-hour trip along the way. By Rachel Metz.
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Travel: A remote lakeside cottage surrounded by deep forest - you usually have to cross the Atlantic for this kind of escape. Owen Sheers discovers one closer to home.
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Sylvain Chavanel is among a five-man breakaway, but the peloton is beginning to quickly reel in the escapees.
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A crew of five rescued off the coast of Cornwall after spending eight days adrift in a liferaft have spoken of their &quot;exhausting and frightening&quot; ordeal.
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Only weeks ago, she could have gotten home by bicycle.
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Lee Min Kyo, a high school athlete, disappeared from a camping trip on the western shores of South Korea in 1977, leading his desperate parents to spend their life savings on a decades-long search that turned up no trace of their missing boy.
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Lost is rip-roaring fun, an adventure that&#39;s best undertaken if you just sit back and enjoy the ride without thinking about it too much.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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A mother tells how she was forced to travel miles from home in severe pain and wait 23 hours for a hospital bed.
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BRITISH hostage Ken Bigley may have been on the run for up to 12 hours after making a dramatic escape from his captors before he was caught and beheaded.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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A wildfire that may have been started by sparks from a flat tire raced across thousands of acres toward a small town Friday, a day after burning through a campground and motel and forcing rescues.
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ORLANDO, Feb. 6 -- She prepared for the 950-mile drive from Houston with the discipline of someone who had flown 13 days in space. The steel mallet, folding knife and rubber tube were all catalogued on a handwritten list, police say. She had maps, she had bus schedules and she had a disguise....
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She was the Robochick. He was Billy-O. According to police, her obsession with him led her to drive 900 miles from Houston to Orlando, bringing with her a trenchcoat and wig, armed with a BB gun and pepper spray, and wearing a diaper to avoid bathroom breaks on the arduous drive.
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - An 11-year-old boy who told authorities he was upset about being bullied at school took off in the family car on an odyssey that ended more than 200 miles away on the other side of the state...
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.