TOMMY FORD

A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among at least 10 recent victims of dangerous rip currents along Gulf of Mexico beaches stretching across Florida’s Panhandle to Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Football, video games and dress-up are just some of the ways athletes at the Beijing Olympics are keeping busy when they’re not competing.

The Winter Olympics finally look like the Winter Olympics.

As in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — those are the words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language.

Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin leads the 17-member list for the U.S. Alpine skiing team nominated for the Beijing Winter Games.

Tropical Depression Grace is drenching Haiti, dumping up to 15 inches of rain on a quake-damaged landscape as thousands of people huddle in fields and search for survivors.

SPRINGFIELD, Fla. A white Florida police officer was arrested earlier this week for using a stun gun on a black man without sufficient cause, authorities said. Smith asked the officers why he was being stopped but complied when they asked him for his name, date of birth and Social Security number. The recruit officer ran the information through a patrol vehicle computer but had misheard Smiths name, investigators said. The recruit called for backup, and Nelson deployed his stun gun, Ford said. Based on video taken at the scene, Ford said he believes the stun gun didnt make full contact.