Water Skiing

The hunt is on. Garrett McNamara hurtles 60 mph down an icy river in the Great Northwest, throttling a 255-horsepower Sea Doo jet ski loaded with surfboards. His 11-year-old son Titus clings to his back, and a reporter clings to Titus' back. McNamara...

An eco-friendly carwash company from Buenos Aires called GeoWash plans to offer its services Monday at its first U.S. location at the Harlem Irving Plaza shopping center on the city's Northwest Side. This is no drive-through. A fleet of mobile washing...

Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel.... Yes, she's "real." Not just in the movie Anchorman either! (but there has been a long line of Twiggys through the decades...) In fact I actually had the chance to meet this water skiing legend and even "let Twiggy...

The Houston International Boat, Sport and Travel at Reliant Center is coming to an end Sunday. An estimated 150,000 people were expected to check out the 10-day show. While this won't be a record setting year due to the struggling economy, organizers says...

BMX Saturday -- The Daytona BMX track is holding a summer series. The next races are scheduled for Friday, and then Oct. 14 and Nov. 4, and all will begin at 7:30 p.m. Practice will be from 6-7 p.m. The fee is $10 per race. The championship race is set...

Bryan Anderson emerged from an elevator in the airport terminal here, a diminished figure in a wheelchair. Both legs were gone, and most of his left arm — all severed when a roadside bomb hidden in a curb demolished the Humvee he was driving in...

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A 60-year-old man from Eatonville has died in a jet ski accident on Clear Lake in Pierce County. The Pierce County Medical Examiner's office says Gregg Eldridge was pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday's accident. Details about the accident have not...

A 60-year-old man has died in a jet ski accident on Clear Lake in Pierce County. The Pierce County Medical Examiner's office says Gregg Eldridge of Eatonville was pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday's accident. Details about the accident have not...

GETTING THERE Fly direct from Chicago to Miami or San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then take a connecting flight to St. Thomas. From there, regular ferries leave for Cruz Bay in St. John from downtown Charlotte Amalie ($7 adults, $3 for children, one way,...

Tom Ham has strapped himself into the back seat of a barrel-rolling fighter jet. He has duked it out in a Las Vegas boxing ring. He has tumbled thousands of feet in free fall from a plane. He has spent the night in a creepy medieval castle in England. And...

Life is basic on a houseboat. That was just fine for the eight adults in our group. Like the words to an old song, we had "...the sun in the morning and the moon at night." We also had wolf howls and daily loon serenades. Swimming, water skiing and...