What's a Ghostbike?

A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver. Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to SHARE THE ROAD with one another. Ride safe and give cyclists a break. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Gaiam

Texas state bird attacks reporter outside state office

Austin, Texas - An unusual kind of bird-watching is underway in Downtown Austin these days. Several mockingbirds are attacking people as they pass by the Stephen F. Austin building. It's gotten so bad that workers in offices on the south side of the building pull chairs up to the window to look and laugh. From up high on her perch, the mother mockingbird can see everyone approaching. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Fox TV Store

Smoking ban 'has closed 100 pubs'

Northern Ireland - More than 100 bars in Northern Ireland have closed since the introduction of the smoking ban, it has been claimed. The Federation of Retail Licensed Trade said that 7% of Northern Ireland's pubs and bars had gone out of business since the ban's introduction a year ago. Its chief executive Stephen Kelly said: "The much-promoted view that non-smokers would be rushing to premises has not materialised." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Elf Cosmetics

Judge rules CPS wrongly removed 3wk old baby - 3 years later, CPS says it would be "too traumatic" to take child away from foster parents

WASHINGTON - There’s an empty highchair sitting in the kitchen of the Arlington home of Nancy Hey and Christopher Slitor. It’s their daughter Sabrina’s highchair. But it’s been empty for two years because thieves disguised as Arlington County social workers and judges took her from her parents. She was stolen with no public scrutiny or accountability. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Diamonds International

Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food - Sin Tax

WINDSOR, New Jersey ― The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food. Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it's not settling well with many residents. "They're taxing everything. Now you're gonna tax fast food? That's crazy," said Newark resident Miriam Robertson. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Dutch Gardens

Girl in Vegetative State Gives Abuse Testimony

Massachusetts - Last winter, just as the state’s highest court was about to rule that a girl in an "irreversible vegetative state" should be removed from life support, 14-year-old Haleigh Poutre started to breathe on her own.
Haleigh, who spent the past two years at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Brighton, Mass., suffered a near-fatal head injury in September 2005. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Chemistry

Pregnant woman busted for DUI... Again

Lutz, Florida — Nicole VanNeil is just a year over the legal drinking age, but already has four arrests for driving under the influence.
In the latest case, Hillsborough Sheriff’s Deputies say VanNeil was eight months pregnant when she was pulled over and failed her field sobriety test. VanNeil’s bulging belly can be seen on video taken from the deputies dash cam. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Sirius Satellite Radio

Mother jailed on neglect charge - Home littered with filth, decaying food, etc

FORT PIERCE — A 19-year-old woman was still in the St. Lucie County jail last night on a child neglect charge, after police found her 1-year-old son living in a home littered with filth, decaying food and other items. The home of Mary E. Fasnacht in the 800 block of Revels Lane had no running water and smelled of human waste, according to reports released Monday. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Petscriptions

Robber Fakes Illness To Lure Waitress into diner bathroom to steal her tip money

NEW CASTLE, Delaware - Police said a man in his 40s faked a sickness and lured a waitress into a diner bathroom before stealing her tip money.
Investigators learned that Leonard Johnson, 44, of McMullen Avenue in New Castle, was eating at the Golden Dove Diner at about 1:30 a.m. when he started acting sick. Johnson allegedly asked his waitress, a 23-year-old female, if she could show him where the bathroom was and then he pulled her into the lavatory, put his hand over her mouth and stole tip money from her apron. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Palm Beach Jewelry

High-speed chase ends in death - Killed man known to his friends as a federal intelligence officer

Houston, Texas - Mystery continues to envelop a man shot and killed by Houston police Tuesday morning after a high-speed chase that ended near the Galleria. The victim was identified by friends as Roland Vincent Carnaby, 52, of Houston. But who he really was — or more precisely, what he was — is something police are still trying to piece together. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Montgomery Ward

P.Diddy Planning an 'I'm Famous' Party - Cost: $2 million

P. Diddy wants the world to know he's rich and famous - just in case you forgot. Diddy is organizing a $2 million dollar party to celebrate getting a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. Diddy said: "You can get a lot of things but when you see those stars on the ground... well that's something I can't even say I dreamed of." A friend of the rapper is quoted as saying: "It's a huge honor for P. Diddy to be recognized in Hollywood. He came from Harlem and on Friday the crème de la crème of Hollywood will salute him." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Limoges Jewelry

Freed inmate arrested for suspicion of stealing jailer’s credit cards

DURANT — A man released from jail Sunday afternoon was arrested again that evening after he stole credit cards from a jailer’s vehicle and attempted to use them at a local business, the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office said. John Fowler, 21, Durant, was released from jail at 3:29 p.m. following an arrest by the highway patrol for driving under suspension and operating a vehicle in an unsafe manner, according to jail records. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Hotwire

Mom Caught 32 Years After Prison Break

SAN DIEGO, California - A suburban wife and mother who has been living in Carmel Valley was in custody Wednesday, 32 years after escaping from a Detroit prison, it was reported. Marie Walsh of Carmel Valley was known as Susan Lefevre in 1975 when she was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for conspiracy and violation of drug laws, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Rugs Express

Restaurant Stores Bread On The floor In Men's Restroom

SANFORD, Florida - Eyewitness News discovered a popular Sanford fast food restaurant that's accused of storing food on the floor inside the men's restroom. The food that was left on the floor in the restroom was just one of several critical violations health inspectors found at a Checkers location in Sanford. Employees at the Checkers store on South French Avenue at West 15th Street apparently decided it was okay to store buns for their hamburgers inside a not-so-clean men's room. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - SwissOutpost

Tenant who lived in incest house for 12 years heard knocking from sex dungeon 'but did nothing'

Austria - A tenant who lived above the cellar where Elisabeth Fritzl was imprisoned by her father for 24 years described today how he heard strange noises in the night - and saw Josef Fritzl ferrying wheelbarrows of food under cover of darkness. Alfred Dubanovsky, 42, who lived in the building in the Austrian town of Amstetten for 12 years, said Josef Fritzl spent his days in the cellar but banned anyone from going near it. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Shutterfly

Girl Burned in Northern India in Possible Inter-Caste Violence

LUCKNOW, India — Police in northern India arrested a man who allegedly threw a girl into a pile of glowing embers after he caught her trespassing, an attack authorities said Wednesday may have been motivated by caste. The 6-year-old girl is recuperating at a state-run hospital in Mathura, the north Indian city where the alleged attack occurred, said Dr. Ramesh Kumar. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Radisson Hotels & Resorts

Man freed by DNA testing after 27 years in prison

Dallas, Texas - A judge in Dallas today freed a man who served 27 years in prison for the slaying of his girlfriend since DNA evidence has cleared him. The case of James Lee Woodard still must be formalized by an appeals court or a pardon from Governor Rick Perry. Woodard, jailed since New Year's Day 1981 after his girlfriend was raped and murdered, became the 18th person in Dallas County to have his conviction cast aside. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Apple iTunes

Dumb Crook: Man arrested after trying to cash $360 billion check

FORT WORTH, Texas - An aspiring record label owner is singing the blues after he was arrested last week for allegedly trying to pass a $360 billion check at a Fort Worth bank. Employees at the Chase Bank at 8601 S. Hulen St. grew suspicious after seeing all those zeroes (10 to be exact) and called the check's owner. The woman said the suspect, Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, is her daughter’s boyfriend and that he did not have permission to take the check or cash it. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800 CONTACTS

Man killed over nickname mix-up

YORK, Pennsylvania — Police say a York man was killed because he had a similar nickname as the attackers' intended target. York police say 29-year-old Omar Maru Dowling, also known as "Big O," was killed April 11. At least 18 shots were fired in the attack. Two 29-year-old York men were charged Tuesday with conspiracy and criminal homicide. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Skype

Police sergeant spanked female officer and told her she was a 'naughty girl'

UK - A police sergeant put a female officer over his knee, spanked her and told her she was a "naughty girl" on a night out, a court heard yesterday.
Mark Downing, 39, also slapped her on the bottom at a barbecue and joked: "If it's there - it's only fair that I hit it," it was claimed.
Downing, who works for Thames Valley Police, denies three counts of sexual assault on two women officers. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Wayside Gardens

Intoxicated man arrested after arriving at trial to fight $72 ticket

PORTSMOUTH — A Hanover Street man was arrested Tuesday morning for being almost three times the legal limit for intoxication when he appeared in the District Court to fight a $72 traffic ticket. Richard Erickson, 43, of 339 Hanover St., was scheduled for an April 29 trial to dispute a police complaint alleging that on August 9, 2004, he failed to yield to Islington Street traffic while driving his 1992 Honda. When his case was called at 9 a.m., prosecutor Corey MacDonald told the court three witnesses alleged Erickson "reeked" of alcohol and appeared impaired. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - For Your Entertainment

Newspaper Carrier Saves Woman Pinned for Days Under Dead Husband

MARION, Illinois - A southern Illinois newspaper carrier is credited with rescuing an elderly woman who apparently spent days trapped beneath her dead husband's body.
Blanche Roberts had been pinned by the body of 77-year-old Fred Roberts for at least two days before she was found by Bruce Pitts and his wife on Sunday, authorities said.
Pitts said he became concerned about the couple after seeing the Southern Illinoisan editions he'd delivered stack up in their mailbox. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Hawaiian Airlines

Man accidentally pays water bill for next 600 years - $99,000 comedy of errors

Houston, Texas - Don Mathis was in for some good news — sort of. He wouldn't have to pay another water bill for 600 years. But the circumstances of such good fortune left the Houston man sourly dismayed. Mathis thought his check for $99,000 was safely en route to a Dallas securities firm where it would be used to purchase a certificate of deposit. Instead, it arrived at Houston's Department of Public Works and Engineering office, where it was automatically processed, endorsed and deposited. "It's a comedy of errors," Mathis said, noting that he never suspected anything was amiss until he received a nervous phone call from Dallas. "I have no idea what went wrong. I've done this a jillion times." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - NASCAR Superstore

Suspended Middle School Teacher Arrested a Third Time on Charges of Having Sex With Students

TAMPA, Florida – Prosecutors say a Hillsborough County middle school teacher was caught in the act on Monday as she continued an ongoing sexual relationship with one of her underage students, and they're working to make sure she stays behind bars after her third arrest in two months. Since March 13, 28-year-old Stephanie Ragusa has been charged with having sex with two different underage male students. On Monday, she was arrested yet again, and this time detectives say she was caught at the home of one of the boys she's accused of having a sexual relationship with. More... Video... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Mrs. Fields Gifts

Woman walks into a bear cage and is killed by a bear

KIEV, Ukraine - A Ukrainian official says a bear fatally mauled a woman who wandered into its cage on an animal farm.
Regional emergency official Olexandr Soldatov says the middle-aged woman may have been drunk when she stepped into the cage Monday on a farm outside the eastern city of Donetsk.
He says one of the two bears inside the cage then attacked the woman. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800-PetMeds

Some federal air marshals have been denied entry to flights they are assigned to protect - Their names are on the no-fly list

Some federal air marshals have been denied entry to flights they are assigned to protect when their names matched those on the terrorist no-fly list, and the agency says it's now taking steps to make sure their agents are allowed to board in the future. The problem with federal air marshals names matching those of suspected terrorists on the no-fly list has persisted for years, say air marshals familiar with the situation.One air marshal said it has been “a major problem, where guys are denied boarding by the airline.” More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - YOOX

Weird: Liberal politician Troy Buswell admits sniffing woman's chair

Australia - One of the Liberal Party's most senior figures yesterday broke down and wept as he admitted sniffing the chair of a female party staffer. WA Opposition Leader Troy Buswell said his wife and children were struggling after he was forced to own up to the "joke", after many denials. Senior MPs and WA Liberal president Barry Court expressed disappointment at the incident but denied it would hurt the party's election chances.
The female staffer, who does not want to be named, said Mr Buswell lifted and started sniffing the chair she had been sitting on at his Parliament House office in December 2005. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Webroot Software

Miley Cyrus "Hannah Montana" Spokeswoman: Parents Not Present For Partially Naked Bedsheet Shot For Vanity Fair

LOS ANGELES, California - Billy Ray Cyrus says the seminude photos of his superstar daughter, "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus, were taken after he left the Vanity Fair shoot.
"Miley's parents did leave the shoot and were not present for the final shot, nor did they see any digital images of the shot in question," a Miley spokeswoman told the New York Post on Monday, referring to the photo showing the 15-year-old partially naked and covered by a sheet. Vanity Fair, on its Web site, called the shoot, "a relaxed family event." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - The Baby Outlet

Roger Clemens sometimes sent Country singer Mindy McCready amounts of $25,000 - But no sex involved

Country singer Mindy McCready isn't challenging the New York Daily News story that said she had a relationship with Roger Clemens as a teen-ager. "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the Daily News in a story posted on its Web site Monday. "I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," she said, without detailing the nature of their relationship.
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed the pitcher and singer had known each other for a long time but told the newspaper there was no sex. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Picaboo

Alleged Spitzer Call Girl Sues 'Girls Gone Wild' for $10 Million

MIAMI, Florida - The call girl linked to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer sued the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" series on Monday for $10 million, claiming he exploited her image and name to advertise the racy videos. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, contended in the lawsuit that she was only 17 — too young to sign legally binding contracts — and drunk on spring break in 2003 when she agreed to be filmed for "Girls Gone Wild" in Miami Beach. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - International Jock

During a call to 911 - The operator fell asleep while she was on the line

Tennessee - When you call 911, you expect help immediately. Lisa, a Memphis resident, got anything but. "Our lives were in danger," she said. "Our lives were at stake, and our lifeline was severed." Severed, she said, because during a recent call to 911, the operator fell asleep while she was on the line. Action News obtained a copy of the call through an open records request. It begins as Lisa calls 911 and a Memphis operator comes on the line. Lisa tells the operator she was robbed at gunpoint earlier in the evening, and that she now hears someone trying to break into our home. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Overstock

Everyone Draw Your Gun - West Palm Beach grocery store shootout lands man in jail

WEST PALM BEACH — It could've been a typical spat between grocery store customer and manager, with the customer announcing he planned to take his business elsewhere. But then the customer drew his gun. The store manager drew his and so did the assistant manager.
It all happened at 5 p.m. Monday at the IGA Supermarket at 1000 36th St. in West Palm Beach. And in the end, West Palm Beach police arrested customer Marshall Hugo Grant for attempted first-degree murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling, aggravated assault with a firearm and carrying a concealed firearm. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Holland USA

Pharmacy Error Blamed After 3-Month-Old Overdoses on Prescription Medication

ORLANDO, Florida - A prescription error that led to the overdose of a 3-month-old in Central Florida is one of several similar cases around the country, a Local 6 investigation has learned. The report featured Central Floridians, John and Sharon Ruddell, who recently had twins. When one of their infant daughters, Leah, contracted a sinus infection, the family filled a doctor's prescription for Histacol DM syrup at a Palm Coast Walgreens store. After Leah took her first dose, the family realized that there was a problem. Leah became non-responsive after taking the medicine, according to her parents. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Cafe Britt

High School Dictates Eyebrow Grooming - Shave your eyebrows off or go home

Oregon - A Portland high school is raising eyebrows with its brow grooming policy: shave 'em or go home. Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol. Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - PetCareRx

Absent-minded dad buys lemonade for his kid at a baseball game - Turns out it's a Mike's Hard Lemonade - Child Protective Services: Kid to foster home

Absent-minded professor dad buys lemonade for his kid at a baseball game. Turns out it's a Mike's Hard Lemonade. After a guard spots the bottle, the kid is whisked away to the hospital in an ambulance where they found no trace of alcohol in his blood about 90 minutes later. The doctors said he was OK to go, but instead he wound up in foster care. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Sonoma Diet

Woman Busted After Purse With Meth Found - Left Purse Behind After Writing Bad Check

NATOMAS, California - A woman was arrested after allegedly writing a bad check at Target, then leaving a purse full of meth behind. A surveillance camera was hovering right over Kristina Parker while she was in line at Target on a day she would probably rather forget. In all likelihood parker would never have been picked up if it wasn't for her purse. Kristina allegedly made two big mistakes: She pulled her checkbook out of her purse and put the purse back into the shopping cart. When the check wasn't accepted, she took off. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Sky Mall

Brawling newlyweds go from reception to jail

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells — she in her wedding gown — after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel. The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn, according to police. It escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Bake Me A Wish

Bed Bug-Sniffing Dogs Pinpoint Pests In Seconds

NEW YORK ― Bed bug infestations have hit epidemic proportions in the tri-state area, so much that earlier this year New York City health officials created a bed bug "task force" after receiving thousands complaints about the microscopic critters. Now there's a new weapon in the fight against bed bugs, and its barking up a storm where the bed bugs bite. Smaller than a poppy seed, beg bugs nest in just about everything – not just beds – which makes it very hard to get rid of them. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Bailey Banks & Biddle

Man practicing fast drawing his loaded handgun - Shoots ex-girlfriend

Mesa, Arizona - A man who shot his ex-girlfriend in a hotel room told Mesa police he was practicing drawing his loaded handgun when it went off.
Amber Sungleton said all she remembers is not feeling good and going to sleep. "And the next thing I know, I woke up and I was shot in my leg and he was freaking out, telling me, 'don't move' and he ended up on the phone with 911 and they came," she said. "At that point, I didn't even know what had happened yet." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Playboy Store

Mother drives around while junior high girls have sex in the back of her car

Magnolia, Arkansas - Donna Lou Sanders, 46, is a Special Ed. teacher at Magnolia Junior High School. She’s also a total pimp for her daughter and other 12 and 13-year-old girls. Okay, technically she’s not actually a pimp, because she didn’t get paid. Maybe “sex facilitator” would be a better title. Or maybe “batshit crazy mom/teacher combo plate who likes to drive around while junior high girls are gettin’ it in the back of her car.” That’s more accurate. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Fragrance Net

Woman bought cartoon for son but found gay porn instead

JAMES CITY, Colorado - A woman bought a cartoon DVD for her children at a Williamsburg Target, but was shocked to find the contents of the DVD were very adult. When her son watched the video expecting a cartoon, the James City County woman says she realized the DVD contained gay porn. The woman said she recalled seeing the words “Titan Man.” It may have been from Titan Media; on the internet we discovered the company produces gay porn films. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Interco Products

Mayor to offer free Viagra to older men - To improve their "quality of life"

Chile - For the first time in Chile, a mayor plans to give out free Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their "quality of life" four times a month, according to media reports. "This has to do with quality of life and it's done responsibly. It's not just like handing out candy at the corner," Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Gourmet Monthly Clubs

40 Drowning Victims May Have Been Murdered by 'Smiley Face Gang'

Minnesota - At least 40 young men who drowned may have died by far more sinister means — serial killings at the hands of a national gang that revels in murdering young men and leaving smiley-face markings at the scene, a team of retired New York City police detectives and criminal justice investigators said Monday. They believe the victims, including University of Minnesota student Chris Jenkins and Fordham University student Patrick McNeill, didn't accidentally drown but were actually killed by members of the so-called "Smiley Face Gang," KSTP in St. Paul reported. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Lane Bryant

Father of Sexual Assault Victim Stabs Male Student

HOUSTON, Texas - The father of a Houston-area teenager was arrested Monday for stabbing a male student who allegedly witnessed a sexual assault involving the man's daughter. The man and his wife had gone to Wunsche High School in the Spring school district north of Houston to tell administrators about the assault, which they said took place off campus over the weekend. Their daughter is a student at the school. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Puritan's Pride

Armed robber apologized to victim - So ashamed he returned her shoulder bag and gave her his cell phone number

UK - Alieu Dibba grabbed the woman's bag, pressed a blade against her stomach and said: "Give it to me or I'll kill you". He later returned the bag to her, left his mobile phone number and promised to "make it up", Luton Crown Court heard. Dibba, 37, of Polruan Place, Milton Keynes, admitted robbery and possessing a bladed article. He was jailed for three years for the robbery in Luton. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Prep Sportswear

Woman Gives Birth In Dairy Queen Parking Lot - En Route To Hospital When Baby Comes Early

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A mother-to-be heading for the hospital Sunday morning ended up having her child in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Grand Junction. The woman was being driven to the hospital when she went into labor, KKCO-TV reported. The driver pulled off into the Dairy Queen parking lot near the Interstate 70 Business Loop and 30 Road and called 911. Firefighters with the Clifton Fire Protection District arrived just before the newborn baby girl. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Netflix

Blind man given the gift of sight by gene therapy

UK - A pioneering gene therapy trial has helped a blind man to see in a breakthrough that brings hope to millions affected by eye diseases. British scientists have claimed a world first for the revolutionary treatment, which involved a single injection into the retina at the back of the eye. Steven Howarth, 18, from Bolton, who has a rare inherited eye disorder which has left him with extremely poor vision More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Go To Meeting

Mars agrees to buy gum maker Wrigley for about $23B with financing help from Warren Buffett

CHICAGO, Illinois - The Oracle of Omaha is betting that the country's candy jar is recession-proof. With financing from Warren Buffett, candy maker Mars Inc. on Monday said it is buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. for an estimated $23 billion in cash. The deal would marry brands that sweet-toothed Americans have munched on for decades: Mars owns Snickers and M&Ms; Wrigley's gum brands include Juicy Fruit, Orbit, Extra and Big Red. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Live Aquaria

SeaWorld Dolphin Dies After Colliding With Other Dolphin

ORLANDO, Florida - Managers at SeaWorld Orlando are planning a review of training procedures following the death of one or their main performers in what has been described as a freak accident. "Sharky," a dolphin died on Saturday during a show at SeaWorld Orlando's Discovery Cove. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Own Your Own Internet Store - FREE

Doomed Chernobyl Reactor to Be Buried in Giant Steel Coffin

KIEV, Ukraine — Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant. For years, the original iron and concrete shelter that was hastily constructed over the reactor has been leaking radiation, cracking and threatening to collapse. The new one, an arch of steel, would be big enough to contain the Statue of Liberty. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Dicks Sporting Goods