Survivor

Rescuers freed a man trapped beneath rubble from a large explosion on Beirut. The man had been trapped for 16 hours.

A Virginia woman missed her 94th birthday because of her battle with the coronavirus, but she beat the odds to recover. Ruby Joyce, a retired teacher still active in church and clubs who socialized with Rosa Parks as a young woman, contracted the coronavirus in her assisted living apartment at Arbor Terrace. “She was talking slower,” her daughter-in-law Johnetta Joyce…

A fit 43-year-old nurse from San Francisco didn’t think he was in danger from COVID-19 when he attended a music festival back in February. He was wrong.

After spending eight days in the intensive care unit at Backus Hospital in Norwich and eight more days in a step-down COVID-19 unit, Danny Donovan got the news that he was able to go home. News he was not sure he would ever hear. “My fear and my concern that was actually running through my mind was, ‘Is this going…

When Steven Adkins started experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 in mid-March, he never thought the virus would land him in the intensive care unit. “I thought I was going to beat it easy,” said Adkins. “It did not really turn out that way. It was a bit of a shock that I got as sick as I got.” Adkins, a 67-year-old…

A Connecticut man spent five days in the ICU and his now back home and sharing his story

The first known coronavirus patient in Connecticut is back home after going through treatment and he is sharing his story.

After a week of silence, former “Survivor” contestant Dan Spilo is publicly apologizing for his behavior on the show.

Some “Survivor” viewers were outraged Wednesday night after a female contestant who accused a male player of inappropriate touching was ultimately voted off while the accused remained to compete for the million-dollar prize. CBS aired back-to-back episodes of “Survivor: Island of the Idols” on Wednesday night, titled “We made it to the merge,” in which the two disparate tribes become...

Rudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of “Survivor,” has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Director of operations for the Seal Veterans Foundation, Steve Gonzalez, said Boesch died peacefully Friday night in hospice care in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was surrounded by loved ones. Boesch joined the...

Rudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of “Survivor,” has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Director of operations for the Seal Veterans Foundation, Steve Gonzalez, said Boesch died peacefully Friday night in hospice care in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was surrounded by loved ones. Boesch joined the...

A former reality TV show producer is home in Southern California after serving a little more than half of his prison sentence in Mexico for killing his wife while on vacation in 2010. Bruce Beresford-Redman, whose credits include “Survivor” and “Pimp My Ride,” was back in Gardena on Tuesday after his release from prison on June 20, NBC Los Angeles...

Japanese police have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspect as soon as he regains consciousness from injuries in a deadly arson at a Kyoto anime studio. Kyoto police said Sunday they are ready to arrest 41-year-old Shinji Aoba on arson and murder allegations. Aoba is accused of storming Kyoto Animation’s No. 1 studio Thursday, setting it on fire and...

A determined and talented mudslide survivor took center field Thursday at Dodger Stadium to sing the national anthem.

The newly elected CBS board faces daunting tasks: deciding whether former CEO Les Moonves gets a $120 million exit package following a sexual-misconduct investigation and charting a path for CBS to recover after the scandal. CBS shareholders ratified the 11 board members, including six new ones, at an annual meeting Tuesday. The board now has until the end of January...

A reported scuffle between Tom Arnold and a producer of “The Apprentice” has led to an exchange between celebrities on social media.

Mickey Jones, a veteran character actor who played Rodney “Hot Rod” Dunham on “Justified” and construction worker Pete on the 1990s sitcom “Home Improvement,” has died. He was 76. Jones died early Wednesday morning of the effects of a long illness, said his publicist, Cherry Hepburn. The illness and where he died were not immediately disclosed.

“Survivor” contestant Jeff Varner who outed fellow competitor Zeke Smith as transgender on Wednesday night’s episode of the CBS reality competition has been fired from his real estate job....
The Greensboro News & Record reports Varner was fired on Thursday from Allen Tate Realtors because he was “in the middle of a news story that we don’t want anything to do...