The hammer throw is a track and field event where athletes compete by throwing a hammer, which is a metal ball that’s attached to a grip by a steel wire. The winner of the event is the athlete who ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras throws are changing. More krewes are choosing items people can actually use instead of plastic beads that end up in storm drains and landfills. This year, the Krewe of Freret ...

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, when paradegoers look forward to catching things like beads. Now, often these beads are made of plastic. But plastic beads can be toxic and bad for the ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- New video shows a day care worker throwing a shoe at a 5-year-old girl with special needs in Inglewood. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has launched an ...

A daycare worker threw a shoe at a 5-year-old girl. The daycare confirms it has since fired the worker and the two other women who were seen in the disturbing video. LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A ...

In other parts of the country, bored parade audiences and float riders might as well keep their hands in their pockets. But here, everybody’s busy, either flinging or snatching beads and baubles — and ...