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Things Maury Povich Viewers Already Know...

Posted by Kevin · Published: September 25, 2009 · Comments (2)

According to a report by China Daily, a leading Beijing paternity testing center says up to 30 percent of tested men were not the biological fathers of their children.... [Full Story]

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'Dumpster diving': New York's coming wave

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 5, 2009 · Comments (0)

A handful of inventive New Yorkers have dreamed up an ingenious idea for getting relief from the summer heat, filling reclaimed trash dumpsters with water to create an instant urban oasis. The improvised swimming hole in an industrial section of Brooklyn also has given a new meaning to the... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

Japanese astronaut tests endurance of underwear

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 3, 2009 · Comments (0)

In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he kept on for a solid month during his space station stay and scientists will check them out. They're experimental high-tech undies, designed in Japan to be odor free. The Japanese spaceman... [Full Story]

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Three escape prison in hijacked helicopter

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 27, 2009 · Comments (1)

Like a real life Lex Luther, one of Belgium's most dangerous criminals has escaped a Belgian prison by hijacking a helicopter Thursday, authorities said. Ashraf Sekkaki, who had more than 16 convictions for violence, including kidnappings for ransom, and two fellow inmates, flew to the town of Aalter, then... [Full Story]

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Wisconsin court praises drunken concert goer

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 16, 2009 · Comments (1)

An Illinois teen knew he was too drunk to drive home after a Dave Matthews Band concert south of Milwaukee. So he fell asleep in his car, only to be awoken by a state trooper. Travis Peterson, 19, of Dixon, Ill., said even though he told the officer he... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Teen media report is all The rage everywhere...but twitter.

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 14, 2009 · Comments (1)

A research report written by a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern that described his friends media habits has generated a flurry of interest from media executives and media geeks. The US investment bank's European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, an intern from a London school, to write a report on... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

Woman arrested for prank calling grandma 45 times

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 7, 2009 · Comments (0)

A 21-year-old woman faces felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her. The woman faces five felony counts including harassment. A criminal complaint said she told police she was "bored" and "wanted to have some fun." The woman and a... [Full Story]

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Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 2, 2009 · Comments (1)

Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest. The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

Denny's Pulls An 'All-Nighter' For The Younger Crowd

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 29, 2009 · Comments (1)

Denny's restaurants have been courting younger, late-night diners -- those who wander in from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The company has created an Allnighter menu program, featuring value-priced items and alternative rock music played in the restaurants. The new value meals start at $2.99 and include Half Moons... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Stoned wallabies make crop circles

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 26, 2009 · Comments (2)

The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania has been solved -- stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles. "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

San Francisco Model Made of 1 million toothpicks

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 23, 2009 · Comments (1)

A California artist has spent the last 34 years building a rendition of San Francisco made out of toothpicks. It started as a school project, and 1 million toothpicks later, it's now complete. The replica city is seven feet wide, nine feet high, and it has entrances for ping... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Mich. great-grandmothers become bowling champions

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 19, 2009 · Comments (1)

Two great-grandmothers from Grand Rapids have become state bowling champions. The women are 86-year-old Emma Dausman and 69-year-old Judy Conner. They won a Division 2 doubles title at the U.S. Bowling Congress' Women's Bowling Association state tournament. Dausman carried a 125 average but the octogenarian rolled games of 192,... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Tadpoles Rain Down in Japan!

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 19, 2009 · Comments (1)

Residents, officials and scientists have been baffled by the apparent downpour of tadpoles in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture. Clouds of dead tadpoles appear to have fallen from the sky in a series of episodes in a number of cities in the region since the start of the month. In... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Teen says she was over tattoo'd while sleeping

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 17, 2009 · Comments (4)

A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday. "I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest," Kimberley Vlaeminck from... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

English gets millionth word on Wednesday

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 11, 2009 · Comments (0)

English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created. The Global Language Monitor says the millionth word was added... [Full Story]

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Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull in Hong Kong

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 3, 2009 · Comments (4)

Hong Kong officials have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink. Officials at the Centre for Food Safety said a laboratory analysis found tiny amounts of the illegal drug in samples... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (9 votes cast)

Snake-bitten cock-in-a-pot: Metaphors Abound

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 2, 2009 · Comments (2)

Chinese health authorities are putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes and cooked up for a supposedly detoxing meal. The dish, served by a small number of eateries in the southern province of Guangdong and the southwestern city of Chongqing,... [Full Story]

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Craps player sets record at Borgata

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 26, 2009 · Comments (0)

Saturday was a record-setting night for a novice craps player at an Atlantic City casino. Patricia Demauro set a new record for the longest craps roll, hanging on for four hours and 18 minutes at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Borgata officials say she beat the previous record... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (5 votes cast)

Man calls 911 over 28-year-old son's messy bedroom

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 19, 2009 · Comments (17)

An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom said he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son -- who's a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford -- threw a plate of food across the... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (20 votes cast)

Ghost hunters inspect 180-year-old NM hotel site

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 12, 2009 · Comments (40)

The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there. Mysterious whispers echo in the current owner's ear. Things fall off shelves for no apparent reason. "The creepiest I had was a voice... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (62 votes cast)

Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 24, 2009 · Comments (1)

Police said a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the... [Full Story]

Rating: 2/5 (1 votes cast)

Mass. lake with 45-letter name has spelling errors

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 21, 2009 · Comments (10)

Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (wiki) in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (31 votes cast)

Russian surgeons find TREE in mans lungs

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 16, 2009 · Comments (8)

A fir tree has been found growing inside a man's lung by surgeons who were operating on him for suspected cancer. The tree, measuring 2 inches, was discovered by Russian doctors when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a tumour. Medical staff believe... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Pigeons fly cell phones into Brazilian prison

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 2, 2009 · Comments (3)

Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle in cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons. Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Madoff gets Topps trading card

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 31, 2009 · Comments (0)

Now you can trade your two Ponzis for a Madoff. The Topps Co. Inc. says jailed Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff will be featured this summer in a set of trading cards dubbed the "world's biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles." The New York-based marketer of entertainment products says the... [Full Story]

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