The 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba comes to a stunning close nearly two decades later, and legendary Olympian Mary Lou Retton battles a setback while in the ICU with pneumonia. Plus, a new study determines the optimal amount of time to snooze your alarm in order to wake up refreshed. |
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A nearly 20-year-old mystery was solved in an Alabama courtroom yesterday when Joran van der Sloot admitted he bludgeoned Natalee Holloway to death with a cinderblock on a beach in Aruba in 2005 and pushed her body into the water, court records showed. Holloway's disappearance had long been linked to van der Sloot, 36, who appeared in federal court to plead guilty to extortion and wire fraud in connection with the Alabama teen's case. The Dutch native had previously pleaded not guilty to Holloway's murder before making his surprising confession, with his lawyer saying he has embraced Christianity and is a different person now. He is already serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for a separate murder and was sentenced to 20 years yesterday to be served concurrently. "As far as I'm concerned it's over," Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, told reporters outside court. "Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter's murder. He is the killer." Continue reading. |
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Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton experienced a "pretty scary setback" on Monday while in the intensive-care unit battling a rare form of pneumonia, her oldest daughter said in an Instagram video yesterday. "At the beginning of this week, we were going on the up and up, we were so excited, seeing so much progress and then yesterday we had a pretty scary setback," Shayla Kelley Schrepfer said. "She is still in ICU and we're just working through some things as far as her setback goes." Retton's family shared on Oct. 10 that she was "fighting for her life" and at one point had been unable to breathe on her own. Continue reading. |
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Lovers of the snooze button, rejoice! A new study found that snoozing for up to 30 minutes after the alarm first goes off led to no major differences in cognitive performance or any of the other measures compared with when participants weren't allowed to snooze. The research published in the Journal of Sleep Research yesterday surveyed 1,732 people about their sleeping habits. "What the study showed is when you hit the snooze button, you actually wake up and have better thinking," sleep specialist Dr. Carol Ash told us. Continue reading. |
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Achieve your life and health goals with easy tips. |
Pretend you're in your own "Creed" training montage and get a full-body workout in the process with these 10 free boxing workouts for beginners. You don't need a heavy bag (or a Rocky-style hanging side of beef) because you can still get a great cardio workout from shadowboxing without any equipment. We also have tips on how to get in a proper boxing stance, and you can follow along to the video workouts on YouTube. (RIP Paulie!) See them all here. |
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Allow us to do the meal-planning for you |
All you have to do is chop up a few vegetables and mix up some dressing and you can be savoring this Greek pasta salad from "Fit Men Cook" chef Kevin Curry in minutes. Kevin's dressing also brings the flavor (without using heavy ingredients like mayo) by whisking together vinegar, Dijon mustard, oregano, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper for a tasty mash-up of Greek salad and pasta salad. Get the recipe. |
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A little pick-me-up before you go. |
Reporter Jalen Tart bit into a Polish sausage live on the air recently and had a bit of a Ron Burgundy moment from "Anchorman." I immediately regret this decision. Tart legitimately bit off more than he could chew during a report from the South Carolina State Fair for NBC affiliate WIS when he took a massive chomp of a sausage in a scene that went viral. Hunger, confusion, regret, fear, and then more regret washed over his face as he tried valiantly to chew it all during the live spot. "I was like, 'OK, this is actually not bad,' but then I thought, 'I still got to swallow this thing down,' and I just couldn't get it," Tart told TODAY.com. See the moment here. |
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