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When Barbara Dewberry, her son David Hurst, and her 17-year-old grandson broke into the County Line Club outside West Point, Mississippi, they had a plan.  They were going to grab the cash, then grab the beer.  The threesome stole 20 cases of hops and barley in all, and their get-away would’ve been perfect, except for […]

A pub-crawler was out and about at the popular night spot collective Franziskaner Square, a hub of activity hosting several bars and restaurants in Graz, Austria, when he noticed an emergency.  The man, undoubtedly a few pints into his evening, noticed that the building across from the Franziskaner Church was on fire, so he did […]

Houshand Jafari finally snapped.  The 58-year-old real-estate developer lived in a luxury multimillion dollar flat in a former mansion in Bristol, but there was only one problem with the shared garden arrangement.  One of his neighbors, Dr. Mark Blokland, kept flying his stupid helicopter into the garden, blowing debris all over Jafari’s Land Rover.  Finally […]

The top bookseller in the United States, Barnes & Noble, isn’t quite sure what to do with itself.  What’s their key to survival in a world that may be moving beyond books as a popular way to get summer reading done?  Is it to diversify?  Is it to work harder at selling the Nook?  Is […]

Even before the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the land was a troubled one.  However, since the quake destroyed the land, it’s just gotten worse, and that’s why native son Wyclef Jean has decided to do something about it.  The donations raised by Wyclef for the land of his birth through his Yele Haiti foundation were […]

Archaeologists in Bulgaria believe that they’ve discovered something incredible.  During a dig at the site of a 5thCentury monastery, a team of archaeologists and church historians lead by Kazimir Popkonstantinov believe they’ve discovered a long-forgotten relic that contains remains from the body of John the Baptist, including a skull fragment, tooth, and bits of bones […]

The sun is our greatest friend, provider of the energy that sustains all life on earth.  Also, the sun is our greatest enemy, capable of unleashing the sort of electromagnetic waves that can destroy all of our modern communications equipment, satellites, and electrical power grid in one gigantic eruption of deadly radiation.  It’s looking like […]

Talk about drunk dialing!  When Bernadette Music was in the mood for some company, she didn’t call up the local dating service or put an ad in the classified section of the newspaper; that’d be too easy.  Instead, the 43-year-old woman from Norwood, Ohio, called 911 for a date.  Not once, either; she called 911 […]

Ohio is Amish country, and no part of Ohio is more full of Amish than the northern end of Ohio.  That’s why when the Cleveland, Ohio, headquarters of the Northern Ohio Red Cross was setting up a blood drive, they had to make a special condition to properly reach out to the Amish community:  during […]

In the movie The Karate Kid, there’s a memorable scene in which Mr. Miyagi catches a fly with a pair of chopsticks.  Huang Yu-yen is not impressed.  The woman, from Yunlin County in southern Taiwan, has put Miyagi to shame by capturing not one fly, but 4 million mosquitoes in a competition organized by pest […]

Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is more outspoken as a manager than he ever was as a player.  The skipper opened his mouth again yesterday, courting controversy with an incendiary claim against Major League Baseball, describing how the organization is more accommodating for minorities who aren’t Latino, specifically Japanese professional baseball players who sign […]

Last year, I saw my first Christmas-themed holiday commercial on Halloween, during a showing of the movie Halloween on AMC during my morning break at work.  I thought, at that time, that it was starting earlier than ever before.  As it turns out, British retailer Selfridges has decided to start Christmas at the beginning of […]

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are a pair of conflicted countries.  They love all the positive aspects of being oil-producing countries in the modern world, but they hate pretty much everything else about the modern world.  They started off by banning kissing in public and various other moral and value-based guides, and now they’re cranking […]

It’s every parent’s nightmare.  The child you brought home from the hospital and raised as your very own turns out to belong to someone else.  That means your baby’s being raised by strangers, and you’ve been raising a stranger!  It’s a bad situation, but it doesn’t have to stay bad for long.  When a pair […]

When you look at it on the surface, it seems insane.  Nobody likes missing out on a baseball game due to a rain-out.  That’s why Gerry Peterson and his staff at the local baseball stadium in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, decided to take matters into their own hands and dry the field out themselves by […]