Man jumps into river for Ice Bucket Challenge — but can’t swim
Two dimwitted daredevils were taunted by friends to jump into the East River as part of the ALS ice bucket challenge Monday night – even though one couldn’t swim. The pair of 20-somethings dove into...
View ArticleDiocese discourages Ice Bucket Challenge because of ALS embryo research
ROANOKE, Va. — The Catholic Diocese of Richmond is discouraging parishes and schools that participate in the ice bucket challenge from sending money to the ALS Association. WDBJ-TV reports that the...
View ArticleBillionaire who stiffed homeless now accused of faking Ice Bucket Challenge
The Chinese billionaire who irked scores of homeless New Yorkers by failing to deliver a promise to give them cash is facing accusations that he faked an ice bucket challenge. Chen Guangbiao — the...
View ArticleIcahn chides Jefferies’ CEO over ice bucket challenge
Revenge — even the friendly, good-natured kind — is best served cold. Ice cold. Jefferies Group CEO Rich Handler learned that lesson Wednesday after he took the ALS ice-bucket challenge — and then...
View ArticlePamela Anderson’s ice bucket challenge errors
Former “Baywatch”babe Pamela Anderson pointedly passed on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — because the ALS Association funds research that uses rodents. Never mind that medical research using animals has...
View ArticlePras Michel does Ice Bucket Challenge in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — It’s pretty hard to find a novel way to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by now, but two-time Grammy-winning rapper Pras Michel, a founding member of the Fugees, has done it —...
View ArticleScreaming woman dislocates jaw during ice bucket challenge
A woman has been hospitalized after screaming so hard during the Ice Bucket Challenge, that she dislocated her jaw. Isabelle Roberts shouted so violently while freezing water was poured over her head...
View ArticleJames Dolan attempts to break kazoo record for charity
The Knicks and Rangers owner has pledged to give $100,000 to the ALS Association if 6,000 people join him in playing the offbeat instrument.
View ArticleMan behind Ice Bucket Challenge pokes fun at bogus death reports
The man who inspired the viral Ice Bucket Challenge had a little fun over erroneous reports of his death on Monday — even using a hit Pearl Jam song to tell social media fans that he’s very much still...
View ArticleMan who helped inspire ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ dies after ALS battle
PELHAM, N.Y. — The ALS Association says a man credited as one of the co-founders of the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge” that swept social media in 2014 has died after a yearslong battle with the condition...
View ArticleMan who started ALS Ice Bucket Challenge gets back his voice
An ALS sufferer gave voice to thousands like him around the world when he co-founded the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 — raising $115 million to help find a cure for the neurodegenerative disease. Three...
View ArticleMan who helped inspire ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ dies after ALS battle
PELHAM, N.Y. — The ALS Association says a man credited as one of the co-founders of the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge” that swept social media in 2014 has died after a yearslong battle with the condition...
View ArticleMan who started ALS Ice Bucket Challenge gets back his voice
An ALS sufferer gave voice to thousands like him around the world when he co-founded the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 — raising $115 million to help find a cure for the neurodegenerative disease. Three...
View ArticlePete Frates, face of ‘Ice Bucket Challenge,’ dies after battle with ALS
Pete Frates, an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) advocate who helped found the Ice Bucket Challenge, has died after a seven-year battle with the progressive disease. He was 34. A spokesman for...
View Article‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ pays off in promising new ALS treatment
The internet stunt raised over $200 million for research.
View ArticlePat Quinn, co-founder of Ice Bucket Challenge, dead at 37 after losing ALS...
The New York man who co-founded the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge” died Sunday after a long battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — the disease he tirelessly raised awareness for until he succumbed...
View ArticleALS ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ founder Pat Quinn delivers posthumous farewell
Six months after his death, Pat Quinn, the plucky Yonkers man who helped catapult the Ice Bucket Challenge for Lou Gehrig’s disease into a social media phenomena, returned to his alma mater, Iona...
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