Posted by Nick on August 20, 2011 ·
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seems like former “Golden Girls” actress Betty White really does have the Midas touch.
White, 89, is both the most popular and most trusted celebrity with Americans and the person most likely to drive up the business of a brand she might choose to endorse, according [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
Fame is a notoriously fleeting thing, but one way of outwitting it seems to be capping one’s celebrity career with a mysterious disappearing act.
Posted by Nick on January 19, 2011 ·
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.
The February 14 celebration named after a Christian saint is not officially banned but [...]
Posted by Nick on March 23, 2010 ·
VIERA, Fla. – A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail. A judged sentenced 25-year-old Sylvester Jiles of Cocoa on Monday. He was convicted in January of trespassing on jail property and resisting an officer.
Authorities [...]
Posted by Nick on March 12, 2010 ·
MIAMI – Devotees of a man claiming to practice a traditional African religion said they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. Federal authorities in January raided the Miami man’s home after receiving complaints. The man has not been criminally charged, but prosecutors [...]
Posted by Nick on February 23, 2010 ·
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar. Samantha Lynn Frazier said she heard two pops when she walked into Herman’s Place early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed [...]
Posted by Nick on May 31, 2009 ·
CAIRO – A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his [...]
Posted by Nick on April 18, 2009 ·
TROY, Kan. – Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family’s home in Troy. She was 93. Six hours later her 95-year-old husband, Lyle, died at a nursing [...]
Posted by Nick on April 15, 2009 ·
HONOLULU – A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after [...]
Posted by Nick on April 9, 2009 ·
BURNSVILLE, Minn. – A man was charged with a felony after prosecutors alleged he tried to impress a woman by firing arrows at his neighbors’ homes with a powerful bow. Police found arrows in the siding of townhomes in the man’s complex on Saturday. Another arrow went through a patio door, [...]
Posted by Nick on April 9, 2009 ·
RAPID CITY, S.D. – A stop at a fast-food restaurant’s drive-through on Tuesday afternoon led to a trip to the hospital after a man accidentally shot himself in the leg with a pistol. The 24-year-old man was apparently trying to clear the weapon when it went off and hit him in the calf.
Police [...]
Posted by Nick on April 8, 2009 ·
WACO, Texas – A man was stabbed after causing a stink — literally — in a motel room while eating with a friend, police said. Five men from the Houston area were sharing a Waco motel room Tuesday night, and two were inside the room eating when one had a flatulence problem, Waco police Officer Steve [...]
Posted by Nick on April 8, 2009 ·
DENVER – One Colorado woman’s love for tofu has been judged X-rated by state officials. Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her SUV’s license plate. Her suggestion for the plate: “ILVTOFU.” But the Division [...]
Posted by Nick on April 8, 2009 ·
MOHAVE VALLEY, Ariz. – Sheriff’s officials said a deputy plans to be back on duty Wednesday after a woman she was trying to arrest broke her nose with her purse. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Trish Carter said the purse the 48-year-old woman swung Tuesday evening contained a large bottle of perfume [...]
Posted by Nick on April 6, 2009 ·
BERLIN (Reuters) – The skeleton of a German retiree who tied himself to the top of a tree and shot himself to death nearly 30 years ago has been found by a hiker.
German police in the southern town of Landshut said on Monday the 69-year-old man disappeared in 1980 and had been classified as missing.
An [...]