For only the second time in recorded history, a tornado struck the Bronx, N.Y., on Sunday. The cyclone touched down around 2:50 p.m., packing winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, the National Weather Service confirms. Today, downed trees, smashed vehicles and power lines littered the Riverdale section of the borough that resides just [...]
On Monday, the National Weather Service declared it an EF-1 tornado, packing winds of 100 miles an hour. Sometime between 2:50 and 3 p.m. Sunday, the weather service says, the twister spun through 0.6 miles of northern Riverdale near the Hudson, carving a path 100 yards wide and injuring seven people. Buildings damaged included the [...]
The family home of Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz,” has come on the market at $3,599,000. Haley raised his two children in the Beverly Hills house, which he bought in 1941 for $26,000. The family home of Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man in “The Wizard of [...]
Wizard of Oz’ actor Meinhardt Raabe died Friday morning in Orange Park, Florida of a presumed heart attack, the NY Times has confirmed. He was 94. According to his caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, Raabe was taken to a nearby hospital after he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest at the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, [...]