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Two thieves are accused of stealing 93-pounds of mayonnaise from a South Australian business on Saturday. Authorities say the thieves made off with two 46-pound tubs of mayonnaise from a refrigerated storage facility in Wahallya, about 237 miles north of Adelaide. Police are asking anyone who is aware of people suspiciously making large quantities of […]
Rodney King’s best friend, Damon Feldman claims that King wanted to break up with his fiancée weeks prior to his death. Feldman is one of several friends reporting that they don’t believe his fiancée’s story. According to TMZ reports, Feldman is pleading with police to look deeper into the account from King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelley. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms. The worries began mostly on the political margins, but there are signs that ordinary people are starting to fret that […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky's defense attorney compared the former Penn State assistant coach's high-profile child sex-abuse trial to a soap opera on Tuesday, telling reporters to "stay tuned" to find out if Sandusky would take the stand in his own defense. Asked what soap opera he'd compare the trial to, defense attorney Joe […]
A world champion sumo wrestler was banned from a Delta airline flight this past weekend on his way to Italy because he was overweight. Manny Yarborough stands six foot seven and weighs 700 pounds but said this is the first time he has ever had a problem with flying, According to Yarborough, he purchased three […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial rested their case Monday after calling the mother of one of his alleged victims, who told the jury she thought it was unusual her son's underwear was frequently missing from the laundry. The woman also said the former Penn State assistant football coach […]
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation shows officials in Mississippi took private property and spent millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina recovery money on sewage plants that may not be needed for decades. In one case, a legal battle over a small strip of land between an 86-year-old woman, her family and a […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The former neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin told his wife to buy bulletproof vests for them and for his attorney, according to jailhouse calls released Monday. "As uncomfortable as it is, I want you wearing one," George Zimmerman told his wife. Zimmerman was wearing a bulletproof vest when he […]
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this […]
A cooked squid inseminated a 63-year–old woman’s mouth in South Korea. According to the report in the Journal of Parasitology, the woman experienced severe pain in her mouth when she bit into the food and spit it out. She reported feeling a lingering “prickling” feeling shortly after. Doctors later found “small, white spindle-shaped bug-like organisms” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The role of Mitt Romney in President Barack Obama's practice debates will be played by another Massachusetts politician: John Kerry. A Democratic official said Monday that Obama's campaign has tapped Sen. Kerry, who was the 2004 presidential nominee in 2004, to stand in for Romney. The official spoke on the condition of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 1,000-page "farm bill" being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it — roughly $80 billion a year — goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans through food stamps. Republicans say Congress could cut the cost $2 billion a year […]
