An aviation museum in Ohio that believed it was displaying a hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery, after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread. SOURCE: YAHOO! SYDNEY – An Australian man faces jail for armed robbery after police used blood from a leech to make a [...]
October 22, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS — Police say an armed robber spent nearly 10 minutes on his knees praying with a clerk at an Indianapolis check-cashing business before fleeing with $20 from the register. Security video from the Advance America branch clearly showed the man’s face during the stickup Monday, and the 23-year-old surrendered Tuesday on a preliminary charge [...]
October 21, 2009
The maker of a life-saving radiation therapy device has patched a software bug that could cause the system’s emergency stop button to fail to stop, following an incident at a Cleveland hospital in which medical staff had to physically pull a patient from the maw of the machine. The bug affected the Gamma Knife, a [...]
October 17, 2009
LOS ANGELES – Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor’s patio, but didn’t call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday. The 75-year-old was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony [...]
October 16, 2009
It looks like the Lingerie Football League (LFL) will not have a New England team this season. According to Wicket Local, the LFL could not find a venue in the Boston area that was available for games starting in the fall. The California-based league did hold tryouts in Boston back in March, but the New [...]
October 14, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. — Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy’s restaurant. Doctors [...]
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