According to witnesses and the perpetrator, a horrible crime has happened in the rural community of Big Prairie, Ohio, between Columbus and Cleveland. What is known is that a 10-year-old boy has shot his mother to death using the rifle she got him for Christmas. Joey McVay, a 10-year-old boy from rural Big Prairie, Ohio, […]
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North Yorkshire Hit By Earthquake
Posted 1/04/2011 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen you think of earthquakes, you don’t think of England. When it comes to weather, I don’t really think anything about England save rain and fog. Still, apparently England is more exciting than I thought, as northern England was rattled by a small earthquake overnight, according to the British Geological Society (or BGS). A 3.6 […]
Read »Rock Legend Chuck Berry Collapses On Stage
Posted 1/04/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganThe father of rock and roll isn’t Elvis or the Beatles or anybody else. The father of rock and roll is Chuck Berry, bar none. Even at age 84, Chuck Berry is still getting onstage with his guitar and still rocking out. Unfortunately, when you rock at 84, travel and performing can take a lot […]
Read »First Solar Eclipse Of 2011
Posted 1/04/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganAs an astronomy nerd, I remember the last solar eclipse that was really visible in my area. It was in elementary school, I believe, and I remember all the preparation needed to properly see the phenomenon, though I think it was cloudy and we didn’t actually get to go outside and watch it. The year […]
Read »British Government To Raise VAT To Fight Debt
Posted 1/04/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s not just the US National Debt that’s out of control. In Great Britain, there’s also a crucial problem with rising expenses and lowered revenues. Or rather, rising expenses outpacing revenues. According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, George Osborne, the only chance Great Britain has to fight off its debts is to raise […]
Read »Florida Woman Strangled By Massager
Posted 1/04/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganLooking to relieve some of the stress of Christmas, Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson of Parkland, Florida, got out her portable neck massager and went to town. It was this desire to relax that caused her life to end. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson died after being strangled to death by her portable neck massager. “The massager got entangled with […]
Read »US National Debt $14 Trillion And Growing
Posted 1/04/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganOn June 1, 2010, the federal deficit was a monstrous $13 trillion dollars. On December 31, 2010, the federal debt had grown to a staggering $14 trillion dollars. That’s the first time the federal deficit had grown to over $14 trillion, and it goes without saying that it’s the largest federal deficit ever. It took just seven […]
Read »Arkansas Birds Died Of Massive Trauma
Posted 1/04/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganAfter having suffered two massive animal die-offs in as many days, there’s no doubt that the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission is working overtime. The research department already had a bunch on its plate as a result of the massive die-off of drum fish, then came the 5000 blackbirds and starlings that fell dead out […]
Read »Sci-Fi Legend Anne Francis Dead At 80
Posted 1/03/2011 12:30 pm by Ron HoganAs we all know, celebrity deaths happen in threes. Given that Pete Postlethwaite passed, that left two more to go. The next celebrity to pass on was Anne Francis. The veteran actress, who starred in the incredible sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet before becoming a proto-feminist icon as the titular detective Honey West. Anne Francis died […]
Read »iPhone Alarm Glitch Fails To Ring In The New Year
Posted 1/03/2011 12:00 pm by Ron HoganThe iPhone is pretty advanced technology, all thing considered, so it’s surprising when things don’t work on it. Especially when it comes to simple things like, says, the alarm clock. iPhone users last had alarm clock problems when daylight savings time ended a few months ago; those that depended on their iPhone alarm ended up […]
Read »NFL Draft Order Determined For Non-Playoff Teams
Posted 1/03/2011 11:30 am by Ron HoganWhile the Carolina Panthers have had the top pick in the NFL Draft sewn up for a few weeks now, the rest of the first round draft picks have been waiting to be filled out. Now that the regular season has ended, the dust is starting to settle and the top picks amongst the non-playoff […]
Read »Garbage Pile Saves Suicidal Jumper
Posted 1/03/2011 11:00 am by Ron HoganThis is not the first time 26-year-old Vangelis “Angelo” Kapatos has attempted to commit suicide. Facing eviction from his family’s rent-controlled apartment in New York City, with his mother back home in Greece and his father in a nursing home with paralysis and cancer, he’s got plenty of reasons to be distressed. After his landlord […]
Read »2012 Named Worst Science In A Sci-Fi Film By Nasa
Posted 1/03/2011 10:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to special effects, there’s no film quite as high on the list as disaster epic 2012. It’s also one of the dumbest movies ever put onto film. Dumb and pretty is a recipe for cinema disaster, at least as far as NASA experts are concerned. Roland Emmerich’s 2012 was named as the […]
Read »Ben, The Rare And Adorable Panda Cow
Posted 1/03/2011 10:00 am by Ron HoganBen, the adorable panda cow baby you see in the picture above, is a very rare creature indeed. As a panda cow, due to his rare coloration, Ben the panda cow is only one of about 24 panda cows living in the world right now. The reason panda cows are so rare is because they […]
Read »Google Chrome Billboard Has The Wrong URL
Posted 1/03/2011 9:30 am by Ron HoganI have no doubt that mistakes like these are why Google Chrome OS netbooks will not have a capslock key. Google has gone to unusual methods to promote its new Google Chrome browser, which has become my favorite web browser to use due to how blindingly fast it is. To promote Google Chrome in tech-savvy […]
Read »NYC Sanitation Supervisors Bought Beer During Storm
Posted 1/03/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganDuring one of the worst weather-related crises to hit the eastern seaboard, what did New York City’s sanitation officials do? While the Christmas Blizzard was beating up on New York City, sanitation officials were allegedly getting boozed up and sitting in a warm, idling car all night. That’s what people in Brooklyn are alleging happened. Witnesses say four New […]
Read »Oprah Winfrey Launches Her OWN Network
Posted 1/03/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganWell, that retirement didn’t last very long, did it? Recently, Oprah officially retired from her weekday television program after 25 seasons and nearly 5000 episodes. She spent most of her 25 years on top of the television heap, having the most highly-rated talk show in American history. Still, that wasn’t enough, and behind the scene […]
Read »Veteran Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead At 64
Posted 1/03/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganActor Pete Postlethwaite has been struggling with cancer and receiving cancer treatments for quite some time. However, Postlethwaite had continued to work steadily in spite of his deteriorating health. In spite of this years of sickness, Postlethwaite worked steadily right up until the end. The actor, who was awarded an OBE in 2004, passed away […]
Read »Seattle Seahawks Are The First Division Champs With A Losing Record
Posted 1/03/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe Seattle Seahawks, one of four terrible teams in the worst division in the NFL, have somehow managed to win the NFC West. In the last game of the season, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the St. Louis Rams and became the NFC West champions in historic fashion. However, they’re not historic for a good reason. […]
Read »Arkansas Town Covered In Dead Birds
Posted 1/03/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganIf you thought 100,000 dead fish littering the banks of the Arkansas River was bad, the folks in remote Beebe, Arkansas, are wrestling with an even weirder animal problem. On New Year’s Eve, Beebe was the epicenter of an unusual rainstorm. Water wasn’t falling from the sky, dead birds were. An estimated 1000 dead blackbirds […]
Read »Arkansas River Suffers Massive Fish Kill
Posted 1/03/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe Arkansas River, near the town of Ozark, Arkansas, is a wasteland. Normally teeming with life, the river is dead. Nothing but death fills the water, as an estimated 100,000 drum fish have died as part of a massive fish kill that’s littering the banks and water of the Arkansas River with more dead fish […]
Read »Happy New Year From PopFi!
Posted 1/01/2011 12:01 am by Ron HoganDo you want to see fireworks so epic they’ll probably melt your face off through your computer screen? Well, every year on New Year’s Eve, to celebrate the arrival of the new year, the good folks of Sydney Australia gather at the famous Sydney Harbor, in the shadow of the Sydney Opera House, and start blowing […]
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