The City of Rome is in a State of Emergency following a tornado that ripped through downtown on Tuesday afternoon. Photo galleries from destructive storm.
Imagine playing poker in Las Vegas and waking up one day and finding out you're the #1 ranked poker player in the world. That's the life of 28-year-old Jesse Lonis, a Little Falls High School graduate (about 20 miles east of Utica, NY), who is also now the 177th all-time largest earner in big-stakes poker, tallying nearly $9 million in winnings to date, and he's far from done.
We've all heard about crazy laws here in New York State that are on the books, but are rarely, if ever, enforced. I've found 16 of them here that people swear on their children - are real, but I can't find a single reference to back them up. To be fair, some of these should should be real.
One of the biggest International Humanitarian Crisis is happening in the nation of Haiti. Currently, they're living with no government, no police and a nation run by the gangsters.