Organizers of the University of Tennessee’s first-ever “Sex Week” will have to find a new source of funding after university officials reversed course and announced they will not fund the controversial program with state tax dollars. Chancellor Jimmy Cheek released a statement, “We support the process and the students involved, but we should not [...More...]
Three men dressed as Oompa-Loompas have been arrested for assaulting a man in Norwich, Norfolk.
If you find a snake in your yard, most people would just kill the snake. In Texas, they just burn down their house.
A quick thinking shopper is a hero after saving the life of a toddler after she passed out and stopped breathing in the middle of a busy supermarket. Distraught mother Amy Collard had been shopping for food in Perth, Australia, with her two-year-old daughter Shaylar when the little girl passed out. The desperate mother [...More...]
Authorities in Wisconsin have shut down well-known Mazomanie Beach on weekdays after an outbreak of public sex, drug use, and gawkers on the beach.
Bill O’Reilly asks God for annulment of 15-year marriage to Maureen McPhilmy which produced two children. In the process, he wants his ex-wife excommunicated and her detective husband fired.
In a bid to protect the Second Amendment, Missouri Rep, Mike Leara, wants to squash the First Amendment. Missouri Rep. Mike Leara (Republican) from St. Louis County, wants to make it a Class D FELONY for any member of the general assembly to propose gun legislation that would restrict an individual’s right to bear [...More...]
Authorities in Sequoyah County believe a man may have died from spontaneous combustion after they found his burned body in his home but no other fire damage or evidence of accelerant use. Authorities are determining the circumstances surrounding the death of 65-year-old Danny Vanzandt after his charred remains were found at his Tulsa home on [...More...]
You can be the most famous rapper on earth, but when the old lady on the subway doesn't know your face, you know there's still work to do. It's a feeling Jay-Z knows well after he was filmed taking the New York underground to his latest gig. Surrounded by his entourage of man-mountain bodyguards, [...More...]
While some are throwing Doomsday countdown parties, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is issuing grave warnings that 2012 Mayan apocalypse rumors pose a real-life threat to frightened children and depressive teenagers. David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, said on Wednesday that he receives a large number of emails and letters [...More...]
The Roman Catholic Church has doubled the number of exorcists in Milan and set up a hotline to cope with what it says is growing demand for priests in Italy's largest diocese. Mons Angelo Mascheroni, the Milan diocese's auxiliary bishop and chief exorcist, says the number of requests has doubled. "We receive a lot [...More...]
The morning of Sunday, November 4th the majority of Americans will turn their clocks back one hour. Daylight Saving Time ends at 1:00 a.m. Sunday. Daylight Saving Time (DST) , which is often referred to as “Summer Time”, is a way of making better use of the daylight in the evenings by setting the clocks [...More...]
Texas A&M University spokesperson Layne Stephenson said the university received a bomb threat call at 11:30 a.m. Friday morning targeting the campus. Efforts to evacuate the campus were “immediately” begun. Faculty, staff and students asked to leave immediately by foot and not to go to their vehicles. The campus was still in the process [...More...]
A fire has destroyed Big Tex, leaving behind little more than the metal frame of the 52-foot-tall metal-and-fabric cowboy that's an icon of the State Fair of Texas. Some fabric that made up the towering structure's hands and sleeves still could be seen as firefighters gathered around the scorched area Friday. Big Tex's 75-gallon [...More...]
If you are already putting up Halloween decorations, then this could be the property of your dreams. A house has been put on the market for $873,000 which is an exact replica of the Disneyland theme parks' Haunted Mansion ride. Built in 1996, the seven-bedroom property in Duluth, Georgia comes complete with a ghostly magic [...More...]
Three surfers braved these ferocious foam covered waves, dodging debris and litter, in their hunt for the perfect ride. The waves were a result of overflowing flood-waters which whipped the murky-coloured waves into a frenzy, kicking up some eye-catching spray when they broke. Photographer Chris Garden, 30, spotted the unusual sight as he drove along [...More...]
A Guatemalan family remodeling their home got more than they bargains for. Their plans were to simply remodel for a different look. That mission was accomplished when they began scraping back plaster in their kitchen, they discovered a historic Mayan mural that covered multiple walls. When Lucas Asicona Ramirez peeled back the layers and [...More...]
Batten down the hatches, the zombies are coming – at least according to the government. In a bizarre public health campaign, the Department of Homeland Security has warned Americans to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, in a bid to encourage better preparation for genuine disasters and emergencies. To get ready for the living dead, [...More...]
Last year, two Louisiana residents died from a single-celled organism that thrives in warm, freshwater after using tap water for flushing their sinuses. The amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, can cause primary amoebic meningoecephalitis (PAM), which is fatal in 99 per cent of cases. Both victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had [...More...]
Learn how to be a gladiator at the Roman Gladiator School. Master the basics of hand-to-hand combat at a genuine gladiator school on the ancient Appian Way. You'll discover the secrets of Imperial Rome's gladiator games, get hands-on with ancient Roman history and have the best fun you can imagine! Highlights Two-hour Roman [...More...]
An Oregon man is expected to spend a month in jail after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges related to his illegal use of…rainwater. Gary Harrington was sentenced after being found guilty of illegally collecting water on his own rural property. Harrington, of Eagle Point, Oregon, has been fighting for his right to do [...More...]
Former CNN anchor T.J. Holmes was surprised when he was pulled over a mile from his Atlanta home without a reason. Tweeting the entire ordeal, the police officer who stopped explained that he just wanted to 'make sure' Mr Holmes had 'insurance on the car.' Outraged by seemingly obvious evidence of racial profiling, Mr [...More...]
Snoop Dogg says he was "born again" during a visit to Jamaica in January, is changing his name to Snoop Lion and is ready to make music that his "kids and grandparents can listen to." The artist known for gangster rap is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. The West Coast [...More...]
Severe droughts across the two-thirds of the country have turned once-lush lawns into endless deserts of splintered, dead grass. But businesses and homeowners alike are catching on to the lawn-painting practice employed for years in the West and Southwest to give lustre to faded turf. The environmentally-friendly turf dyes, which are also used for football [...More...]