CONCORD, N.H. – The bouncing mega-meatball record has landed in the East Coast. Matthew Mitnitsky, owner of Nonni’s Italian Eatery in Concord, said Sunday that a 222.5-pound meatball was authenticated as the world’s largest after being weighed by state weights and measures officials. A Guinness Book of World Records official confirmed the big meatball as [...]
November 2, 2009
WASHINGTON – No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you — he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. They found that people with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people with a different DNA [...]
November 1, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian legislators in the poor conservative Muslim northeastern state of Kelantan should marry single mothers to help care for their children, a state representative suggested. The state’s family and health committee chairwoman Wan Ubaidah Omar said that legislators should be awarded prizes for increasing their “quota” of wives. “What I mean by [...]
November 1, 2009
HACKENSACK, N.J. — A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, he was just too fat to have pulled it off. An attorney for Edward Ates is making the case that his client wouldn’t [...]
November 1, 2009
ALLIANCE, Ohio — A man sporting a tattoo that reads “Family Forever” on his side was arrested Tuesday on a domestic violence charge after a fight with his mother over a pair of earrings he bought her, Stark County Jail records said. A woman identified in jail records as his mother told Alliance police that [...]
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