Motivational speaker and author Stephen Covey, whose “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” sold millions of copies, died Monday in an Idaho hospital.He was 79.Covey‘s family said in a statement he died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls from residual effects of a bicycle accident he had in April, CNN reported.“In his final hours, he was surrounded by his loving wife and ea

Delta Air Lines confirmed Monday what appeared to be sewing needles were found in sandwiches served on four flights from the Netherlands to the United States.The airline, based in Atlanta, said one passenger was injured after biting into a sandwich but declined medical treatment from paramedics after the plane landed in Minneapolis Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported.The sandwiches were serve

Chelsea and England defender John Terry racially abused rival footballer Anton Ferdinand in response to taunts about his alleged affair with a teammate's girlfriend, a court heard Monday.Terry was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence following the emergence of video footage appearing to show him abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Ferdinand during a Premier League match last Oc

A British survey found about half say social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter feed anxiety and make them feel inadequate. The Salford Business School at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, conducted the survey of almost 300 people for the non-profit Anxiety UK, and found of the 50 percent who said their lives had been altered for the worse said their confidence fell after com

Authorities in Florida said a man who told a deputy he "wanted to go to jail" caused $800 worth of damage to a patrol car.The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said the man approached a deputy outside the Bradenton office of the department and told her he "wanted to go to jail," the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.The report said the man, later identified as Shakeem Fleming, 20, put his

 A fishing party landed a shark that was so big the scale on the dock couldn‘t measure its weight, the manager of a Southern California fishing business said.Craig Campbell, general manager of Del Rey Landing in Marina Del Rey, said the scale stops at 750 pounds, and he thinks the shark the fishing party brought in Monday weighed at least 800 -- and possibly as much as 900 -- pounds, the Los Angel

WASHINGTON—A young lifeguard in Florida has lost his job after rescuing a drowning man in a section of beach he was not assigned to patrol, local news media reported Wednesday.Tomas Lopez, 21, was manning his post on Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, on Monday afternoon when a beach-goer alerted him to a swimmer struggling in an “unprotected” part of the beach.“It was a long run, but someone neede