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Dr. Douglas Rank has a history of getting into trouble.  He’s run afoul of the state medical board in Kentucky for a variety of unethical acts, including sex with a patient and giving out improper prescriptions, and now he’s taken his troubles past the state medical board and straight to the real police after witnesses […]

It’s one of the weirdest phenomena related to social networking.  You meet someone at a party for five minutes, tell them your name, and when you get home there they are, staring you right in the face.  They want to be your Facebook friend.  But they’re basically a stranger to you!  Why would they want […]

Do you feel like you’re the one always stuck making coffee and tea at the workplace?  Well, according to a recent survey of 3,000 office workers from CafeDirect, you just might be.  Women are three times as likely as men to make tea in the average British workplace, and more importantly, two-thirds of men admit […]

Hungry?  Well, might I suggest a delicious short stack of three pancakes from the International House of Pancakes?  That’s right, today is National Pancake Day, brought to you by IHOP.  It’s all part of their fundraiser for the Children’s Miracle Network, but you don’t have to donate to get your free flapjacks.  You just have […]

There are some things that cannot be improved.  One of these things is not toilet paper.  From more comfortable rolls to stronger sheets, toilet paper is constantly being tweaked, adjusted, and reworked for greater comfort, lower cost, sustainability, and even fashionable colors.  Now, if you are so inclined, you can use the toilet safely without […]

Everyone is familiar with the Toyota company’s recurring bout of car problems by now, but as it turns out, the company has known about these issues for a lot longer than they’ve let on.  Years longer, in fact, judging by how Toyota executive Yoshimi Inaba bragged about the company’s limited 2007 recall, which saved the […]

In another example of how positive thinking can turn around a community, Detective Roger Bartlett turned to the people of Barnstaple, Devon, to combat their community crime rate.  At one point, Barnstaple had the lowest rate of crime detection in the country and one of the highest traffic accident rates.  However, then Bartlett asked the […]

It’s a modern day Romeo and Juliet story.  Two lovers, separated by forces beyond their control, do anything and risk everything to be together.  Romantic, right?  Well, that’s the real-life story of a West German man named Daniele E. and his girlfriend.  You see, she’s incarcerated on drug charges and currently a prison inmate.  That […]

The family and friends of actor and producer Andrew Koenig are asking for the help of the Internet in finding him.  Andrew, the son of Star Trek star Walter Koenig, was last seen in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Stanley Park area on February 14.  He’s been out of contact with his family for quite […]

Robert Henderson had a great plan.  Everyone wanted to see that hot new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, in theaters, right?  Well, his plan was to sneak into the movie theater with his video camera, tape the movie, and then enter into the bootleg video business and sell pirated copies of The Dark Knight on […]

On Wednesday, Team USA won more medals in a day than the entire US team won at the 1988 Olympics.  So far, the US has won 24 medals in a variety of events both expected and unexpected.  From Bode Miller’s gold medal in the Men’s Alpine Skiing Super Combined to Seth Wescott’s gold medal in […]

We’ve found out where the happiest city in America is, but now’s the time to ask just who is bringing up the rear.  While there are a lot of unhappy citizens in a lot of unhappy places, a new survey reveals that the most miserable city in the United States is the so-called Mistake by […]

Harriton High School is, by and large, a model school.  It’s well funded, thanks to being in wealthy and prestigious Philadelphia suburb Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, and is a forward-thinking, tech-savvy school that issues all its students laptop computers.  Therein lies the problem.  After assistant principal Lindy Matsko called tenth-grade student Blake Robbins into her office […]