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As winter lingers, some outdoor lovers look for new ways to enjoy the cold. CBS reporter Noel Brennan heads out onto frozen Geneva Lake in Wisconsin to try a different kind of boating — one that runs on ice instead of...
Honolulu — Buddy Wiggins, a 32-year-old pool cleaner from Honolulu, turned a yearslong sports gambling addiction into something unexpected: approaching strangers on Waikiki Beach and offering them free surf lessons.
Clifton Park, N.Y. — In the spring of 2004, truck driver Joe Macken went down to his basement with a piece of balsa wood and a single question: could he make something interesting? He started by carving a tiny version...
In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken walked down the stairs to his basement in Clifton Park, New York, with a single goal: carve one small building out of balsa wood. That first miniature—the RCA Building at Rockefeller...
At the 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, a doberman pinscher named Penny was crowned Best in Show, marking a historic moment for the breed. After two days of judging and roughly 2,000 dogs whittled down to seven...
Penny, a Doberman pinscher, was named Best in Show Tuesday night at the 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, taking top honors at Madison Square Garden after two days of competition.
A Pew Research Center poll finds nearly 80% of Americans put up Christmas trees, yet only 16% go Christmas caroling as adults. In a Weekend Journal piece, reporter Jericka Duncan profiles the Yuletide Carolers, a troupe...
Next week on 60 Minutes, Cecilia Vega joins a perilous trek to Everest Base Camp led by a 19-year-old Sherpa who already holds a record as the youngest person to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks. The segment follows...
Pensacola, Florida — At the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, one customer had become part of the furniture. For a decade, 78-year-old Charlie Hicks ordered the same thing twice a day: a cup of gumbo, light on the rice and no...
For 10 years Charlie Hicks ate lunch and dinner at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola every day—gumbo, light rice, no cracker—twice a day like clockwork. When he suddenly stopped showing up one September, chef Donell...
Danièla Dufour learned watchmaking in a single-room workshop in the Vallée de Joux, a Swiss valley north of Geneva, where she watched her father, master watchmaker Philippe Dufour, assemble watches completely by hand....
People still prize mechanical watches even though phones tell the time — because these pieces are the product of centuries of craft, tiny engineering and deliberate scarcity.
