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July 2, 2009

Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 2, 2009 · Comments (0)

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)

June 29, 2009

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)

June 26, 2009

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)

June 23, 2009

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)

June 19, 2009

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)

June 17, 2009

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)

June 11, 2009

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]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

June 3, 2009

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)

June 2, 2009

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]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

May 26, 2009

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)

May 19, 2009

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: 3.1/5 (19 votes cast)

May 12, 2009

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)

April 24, 2009

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)

April 21, 2009

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)

April 16, 2009

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)

April 2, 2009

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)

March 31, 2009

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]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

March 27, 2009

What's in a name?

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 27, 2009 · Comments (0)

The number of people in Britain with surnames like Cockshott, Balls, Death and Shufflebottom -- likely the source of schoolroom laughter -- has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century. A study found the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785 last year... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

World's largest egg goes on sale

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 27, 2009 · Comments (8)

The eggtra-ordinary orb was hatched in the early 17th century. It was laid by the now-extinct great elephant bird of Madagascar, a flightless beast which could weigh up to half a ton and measured 10ft tall. Hundreds of years later, it has been painstakingly put back together from shell... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (20 votes cast)

March 26, 2009

Robot fish to detect pollution

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 26, 2009 · Comments (5)

Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution. If next year's trial of the first five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port of Gijon is successful, the team hopes they will be used in rivers, lakes and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (8 votes cast)

March 20, 2009

Colorado woman with flammable water fears blast

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 20, 2009 · Comments (1)

A woman said she lives in constant fear and is terrified her home could blow up because of natural gas that has managed to seep into her water supply. Amee Ellsworth can turn on a faucet in her kitchen or bathroom, flick a lighter and watch flames shoot up... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

March 17, 2009

Medieval 'Vampire' Skull Found

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 17, 2009 · Comments (0)

The remains of a medieval "vampire" have been discovered among the corpses of 16th century plague victims in Venice, according to an Italian archaeologist who led the dig. The body of the woman was found in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo. Suspecting that she... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

March 12, 2009

LA offers reward in 1977 death of `Rocky' figure

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 12, 2009 · Comments (0)

The city of Los Angeles announced a $50,000 reward Wednesday for information that helps solve the 32-year-old murder of the flamboyant boxing manager and gym owner who helped inspire a character in the "Rocky" movies. The City Council approved the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)

March 10, 2009

Man claims psychic defrauded him of $250,000

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 10, 2009 · Comments (32)

A New York man is suing a New Jersey psychic, claiming she defrauded him of nearly $250,000 he paid her to craft a golden statue that was supposed to ward off negativity. Charles Silveira, 38, of Seaford, Long Island, claims he never received the statue. On Monday, he filed... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (31 votes cast)

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