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They say the eyes are the window to the soul.  If so, two men have left a big pile of windows at a Conoco gas station near Kansas City, Missouri.  On Wednesday night, while stopped at the station, two men discarded a medical cooler with a bloody bag inside near the trash can between the […]

If you’re already looking forward to the 86th annual Academy Awards, then you’ll have to wait a little longer than usual, even if you’re the unannounced next celebrity host.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group behind the Oscars, has had to move their awards ceremony back a month to avoid an […]

Harvard may not be the world’s top university anymore, but the school is becoming a basketball powerhouse.  Well, kind of.  Last year, the Crimson lost to the Vanderbilt Commodores in their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1946, but that simply served to get the nerves out of the Harvard student-athletes.  Back in the NCAA Tournament […]

One of the most controversial laws in decades has been New York City’s ban on large sodas.  The law has come as part of a renewed interest in calorie-counting and public health, particularly in Gotham, but it’s not a popular law everywhere.  Some places still believe in personal choice, like the state of Mississippi.  Mississippi […]

It’s a tale of two teams from last season’s Final Four.  The Louisville Cardinals and the Kentucky Wildcats, two of the most bitter rivals in college basketball due to the close proximity of the two campuses and the constant interaction of the two schools’ fan-bases, met in the Final Four last season, with Louisville finding […]

For most folks, looking at a menu and seeing that something is “no sugar added” or “sugar free” is generally a positive sign, but what if it’s not true?  The Butterfly Bakery in Clifton, New Jersey, has found out the hard way what happens to people who make false claims about the nutritional content of […]

What started as a novelty has become a full-fledged phenomenon.  The unholy mash-up of Taco Bell and Doritos known as the Doritos Locos Taco is a legitmate hit, maybe the biggest hit in Taco Bell’s history, and it only seems to be growing in popularity.  In 2012, Taco Bell sold 375 million Doritos Locos Tacos; […]

After taking a more conservative choice with Pope Benedict XVI only to have the Pope make history by resigning for the newly-made position of Pope Emeritus, the new Pope was going to be history-making no matter who was selected from the body of Cardinals.  As it turns out, the new Pope was to be the […]

If you filed your taxes with H&R Block, there might be a problem with your returns depending on what kind of forms you needed to file.  H&R Block has acknowledged messing up over 25 percent of the tax returns they’ve filed, up to 600,000 forms.  The trouble involves the IRS Form 8863, aka the student […]

In a place like China, where laws are only as good as the people enforcing them and there are many ways to get around environmental protection regulations, there are a lot of problems with the drinking water, but rarely has there been a problem as big as this.  Nearly 3000 dead pigs were pulled from […]

Genetically modified foods have infiltrated the food supply in a steady way since rising to prominence in the 1990’s.  The bulk of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States is GMO, thanks to being tweaked to work with various pesticides, and that trend has only spread.  Mostly vegetables now, GMO is spreading into cow’s milk […]

Justin Bieber has had a pretty bad trip to London, all things considered.  Sure he’s drawing tens of thousands of fans to London’s O2 arena, but it hasn’t been all strawberries and cream for the Biebs.  Bieber first got into trouble by being late to a show.  Then there was the issue where he got […]

The publishing industry is going through some serious changes these days, thanks in no small part to the rise of the Internet as a news delivery media.  For example, The Daily Beast/Newsweek merger is a strange idea, but the fact that an Internet company can buy a real publisher is mind boggling.  That’s only the […]

According to protocol, the Royal Family never reveals the sex of a Royal Baby before said Royal Baby is born, but Kate’s human.  That’s what makes her popular among the people.  Like most people, she can make mistakes, and like most people, she wanted to find out the sex of her baby in advance of the […]