Junk mail accounts for 1/3 of all mail sent in the United States, adding up to over 800 pieces of junk mail delivered each year to each household. Want to know how many trees that is? 100 million. Every single year. Just for junk mail. This is equivalent to clear cutting all of Rocky Mountain [...]
April 2, 2010
A Florida doctor who opposes the new health care law posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Obama to get care “elsewhere,” the Orlando Sentinel reported. The sign on Dr. Jack Cassell’s door reads, “Changes to your health care begin right now. Not in four years,” the Sentinel said. [...]
February 12, 2010
LOS ANGELES — A San Fernando Valley woman who doused a bikini dancer with gasoline and set her on fire has been found guilty of aggravated mayhem and torture. A Los Angeles jury convicted 28-year-old Rianne Theriault-Odom on Thursday on two counts but acquitted her of attempted murder. The Tarzana woman faces a possible life sentence. [...]
January 21, 2010
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — A 36-year-old Wisconsin woman who stripped in front of her children in a drunken attempt to avoid a shoplifting arrest is going to jail. As part of a plea agreement, Julia E. Laack of Sheboygan pleaded no contest to three charges including retail theft. The Sheboygan Press says she was sentenced Thursday [...]
January 4, 2010
A man has been convicted of catching, killing and eating what may have been the last wild Indochinese tiger in China. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla in the southwestern Yunnan Province, got a 12-year sentence and was fined a total of 580,000 including compensation to the state for economic losses. He had denied the [...]
January 3, 2010
KERRVILLE, Texas — Prosecutors planned to review the case of a woman authorities claim has called 911 30 times over six months for non-emergency reasons, including a call to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner. The woman allegedly made a pair of calls to 911, including a hang-up and another where a [...]
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