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Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Vermont man wins $650K after pulling ticket from trash

BERLIN, Vt. – A Vermont man is $650,000 richer after retrieving a lottery ticket he had been given for Christmas but accidentally threw away. Steven LeClair of Richford got the ticket for the Dec. 24 Tri-State Megabucks drawing as a gift from his mother. But it was in a gift bag that LeClair threw out, [...]

Peruvian Jesus born to Virgin Mary on Christmas

baby son named Jesus, in Lima December 25, 2008. Twenty-year-old Huarcaya, …

LIMA (Reuters) – Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru’s state news agency said on Friday.
The baby’s father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians [...]

Shamanic tradition & usage of Salvia

Shamanism traditions and beliefs are a part of modern & ancient American cultures, with a rich history spanning millennia’s, practitioners of shamanism who are known as shaman would communicate with the spirit world. 
Villagers would come to shamans to cure ailments, moreover the responsibilities of a shaman would extend to provide guidance to the souls of the dead of recently deceased [...]

Texas airport has karaoke

HOUSTON – Leaving on a jet plane? Is the waiting the hardest part? Try airport karaoke! Houston’s Bush International Airport is setting up karaoke booths for travelers, just in time for the holidays. One was to be up and running on Thursday afternoon, airport officials said.
For the past two years, officials have invited choirs and [...]

Shoplifting suspect uses Taser on Wal-Mart worker

WICHITA, Kan. – Two suspected shoplifters are arrested after one of them zapped a Wichita Wal-Mart employee with a Taser. Police said that two Wal-Mart workers on Wednesday afternoon confronted a pair of women who tried to leave the store without paying for merchandise. At that point, one of the women fired an electroshock from [...]

Woman gets probation for setting tow truck on fire

PORTLAND, Ore. – A 20-year-old woman received two years probation for setting a tow truck on fire as it was rolling away from an apartment complex with a car. A Multnomah County judge also ordered Elizabeth Allen to complete alcohol treatment, 80 hours of community service and a mental health evaluation.
Allen was arrested Sept. 16 [...]

Woman Sues Sports Bar for Broken Toilet Seat

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke.
Kathleen Hewko of Delran Township, N.J., says she was in the bathroom at Starters Pub near Allentown when the handicapped toilet seat she was sitting on cracked and [...]