• Police Thong Cape Scooter Man not breaking law

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man known to ride through Madison on a scooter - dressed in thong underwear and a cape - may be disturbing to ...

• Video Amanda Bynes makes strange court appearance in wig

  Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a New York criminal court on charges she tossed a bong out the window of her Manhattan apartment ...

• Tempura-battered tarantula on menu at California bug fest

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ...

• The Strange Advice A Teacher Gave To One Graduate

  Making sure you have all your ducks in a row on the morning of graduation day can help make the whole process easier. Plan ahead so that you arrive early -- with your phone fully charged, wearing comfortable shoes -- and choose a meeting spot where you'll be able to find your family later. If you go to a large public school, these things are especially important -- you don't want to ...

• Tuukka Rask ‘You Can Either Cry About It Or Laugh About It’

  BOSTON (CBS) — Everybody knows there’s no use crying over spilled milk. But if you’re the Boston Bruins goaltender, there’s no use crying over bad goals. Tuukka Rask, who embarrassingly tripped in his crease Thursday night to allow the first New York goal in a game the Bruins eventually lost in overtime, knows that well. While Rask was not happy to allow that type of ...

• Superman Comic Set To Net Family Small Fortune

  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Superman comic worth more than $100,000! David Gonzalez is celebrating after finding the "Holy Grail" of comic books stuffed inside the walls of a house he was renovating. The father-of-four put the rare edition up for auction and it has so far attracted bids of more than 10 times the value of the Minnesota house he bought for ...

• Google Puts Out Weird Cartoon About Porn And AdSense

  Google wants to remind you that it doesn’t allow AdSense ads on content containing: nudity or pornography, sheer clothing, strategically covered nudity, sexually gratifying ';stuff,'; fetish or adult toys, adult language links or comments, or extreme profanity (these are all their words). To do so, the company has put out a new cartoon to ...

• Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems

  A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...

• Woman arrested for wearing thong in public

  Tiara Monique Garness, 22, of High Point, N.C., was charged with indecent exposure after officers in Myrtle Beach, S.C., warned her about wearing the skimpy suit, The Sun News of Myrtle Beach ...

• Not just a bunch of swivel-eyed idiots The true Tories who want a new direction

  There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire, in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in ...

• Rare Superman comic used as insulation in homes wall

  It's considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he was renovating in a small town in ...

• Champions League Footballs new chapter began with a twist 20 years ago

  At the back of the team bus, Fabien Barthez closed his eyes and dropped into unconsciousness. The young Olympique Marseille goalkeeper had struggled to sleep the night before and now, even on the way to the biggest match of his life, tiredness caught up. Around him adrenalin seeped from the pores of older professionals, on their way to Munich's Olympic Stadium, for the European Cup final. ...

• Pittsburgh on the Hudson Wrong city in New York City campaign logo

  Anthony Weiner , the road to City Hall leads through Pittsburgh. Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the US Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on Wednesday. The logo is written in blue and orange -- the colors of Weiner's beloved New York Mets baseball team. But the image of the ...

• Murder and suicide a month apart are connected in bizarre case

  kdean@tylerpaper.com A woman’s body found in a wooded area in Anderson County in October and a man’s death in Flint a month later would seem to be unrelated, but authorities say the two are connected.Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Friday morning that the homicide of 35-year-old Tylerite Deborah Leann Diaz had been solved.';We feel quite confident that the case is ...

• TGI Fridays accused of selling fake liquor

  A yearlong investigation by state officials revealed that twenty-nine New Jersey bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, have been substituting cheap alcohol for premium ...

• Ky. man defends rabbits with AK-47

  Police say Wold saw a neighbor shooting rabbits with an air gun from his back porch. Wold went inside, police say, and came back out with an AK-47 loaded with 19 ...

• Researchers Solve The Mystery Of The White Tiger

  Bengal tigers come in two distinctive colors: the bright, vibrant orange and black stripes, or pure white with black stripes. The white variety is only seen in zoos these days, but a new study ...

• This Strange Looking Funnel May Be The Future Of Wind Power

  This means that the device can produce much more power with just the slight breezes closer to the ground--600% more power than a conventional wind device, the company ...

• The Intelligence Squared Debate Masha Gessen Has Some Really Strange Ideas About The 1990s

  , and the recently fired head of Radio Liberty. It might come as a surprise, but while I enjoy a good verbal tussle as much as they next man, and while the Brits are exceedingly good at this sort of polemical showdown, I ultimately think that these sorts of debates are unhelpful because they always end up covering only a small slice of the relevant issues. Answering a question like "has ...

• Video Schieffer on AP subpoenas Outrageous overreach

  CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of "Face the Nation" Bob Schieffer discusses President Obama's response to the media in the wake the Associated Press scandal, as well as the the president's recent counter-terrorism ...

• ‘Poor reading culture not peculiar to Nigeria’

  Those who feel that poor reading culture is peculiar to Nigerians may have to think again. A Nigerian author based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Femi Onasanya, says in the western world, those who read after leaving school or the university constitute about 20 per cent of the ...

• A true warrior loving father

  The British soldier beheaded in broad daylight was the 25-year-old father of an adorable little boy and a star in his battalion’s corps of drums - who survived the war in Afghanistan only to be slain by extremists at home.Lee "Riggers" Rigby - described as "cheeky and humorous" and a "loving father" to 2-year-old Jack - joined the army in 2006 and was ...

• Comments reflect Hashimotos true nature

  A person cannot escape their true nature. Someone of low character, even if they rub shoulders with the political elite, cannot become a politician in the truest sense. Toru Hashimoto, head of Japan Restoration Party and mayor of Osaka, is a prime ...

• “You know a lot of people say that if you dig long enough and hard enough you will get to China and that may be true. But what they don’t tell you is that if you dig long enough and hard enough in a conversation you get to a friend.”

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• Cruel twist for murdered soldier

  MURDERED soldier Lee Rigby's girlfriend was flying back to the UK from serving in the Afghanistan warzone, after the 25-year-old was hacked to death on the streets of ...

• Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester

  1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...

• Weird Al is at Mystic Lake in August

  Parody master Weird Al Yankovic will return to the Twin Cities on Aug. 3 to headline Mystic Lake Casino. Tickets are $39 and $31 and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 25, through Ticketmaster. Shows going on sale Friday, May 24, through Etix (unless otherwise noted) include: -- New York indie rockers Vampire Weekend; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5; Orpheum Theatre; $35; on sale at 10 a.m. through ...

• Braves rookie catcher takes long strange road to major league glory

  Atlanta Braves pinch hitter Evan Gattis (24) celebrates after putting his team ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers with a two-run home run in the eighth inning of a game on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Atlanta. (John ...

• Mana candidate true man of the people

  New Mana candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Te Hamua Nikora, says he is a different breed of politician who can engage young Maori with political issues and be a true man of the people. "I'm different in that I've never been a politician but I've been politically thinking my whole life. I'm different in that I dress the same, I walk the same and I talk the same as the people on the coalface," he said ...

• Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.

  LOS ANGELES -; A man who has been wanted in Los Angeles on attempted-murder charges for 13 years has been taken into custody in Colorado after being arrested for urinating in ...

• Star Wars Lego Model Is Worlds Largest

  The unveiling of a massive Lego model in Times Square has brought new meaning to the saying that everything is bigger in New York City. The model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter - the largest Lego model ever built - was given its public debut on Thursday. Made out of a whopping 5.3 million Lego pieces, the craft weighs in at nearly 46,000lbs and is 43 feet (13.1 metres) long. Its wingspan ...

• Hubble telescope gives new view of iconic cosmic object

  NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new twist on the Ring Nebula, a cosmic object so iconic it's a popular illustration for astronomy books. Hubble has revealed the true shape of the nebula, the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star, the space agency reported Thursday. The nebula's apparent ring shape is a result of perspective but the Hubble images ...

• ODD NEWS Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam

  Having read the news item "Jordan’s ambassador to Macedonia presents credentials" (The Jordan Times, May 23, 2013), I would like to stress that no such country is a member of the United ...

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