President uses birthday bash to rebuke white farmers

CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe - With his nation's economy in shambles, President Robert Mugabe threw himself a lavish 85th birthday party Saturday, using the opportunity to call on Zimbabwe's last white farmers to leave. "The few remaining white farmers should quickly vacate their farms as they have no place there." The birthday bash, which reportedly cost $250,000. Zimbabwe faces the world's highest official inflation rate, a hunger crisis and a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 4,000 people since August. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Amazon Books

Nurse rapist sentenced to 210 years

INVERNESS - A former Citrus County hospital nurse convicted 14 years ago of raping sedated patients has been sentenced to 210 years in prison.
A circuit judge on Wednesday gave 60-year-old Bruce Alan Young seven consecutive 30-year prison terms, because he violated his probation when he escaped from a mental facility last year.
Young pleaded guilty in February 1995 to raping seven women after giving them extra doses of drugs. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Amazon Books

The 15 Strangest College Courses In America

USA - College is viewed by many people these days as a diploma factory. You show up go to certain classes in a certain order, and eventually receive a diploma. There’s not a lot of love for learning for learning’s sake anymore. But that hasn’t stopped many colleges from offering plenty of quirky unique classes that go over non standard educational topics. A lot of the odd courses we found sound like lots of fun, but with tuition costs skyrocketing is it really worth it to spend thousands of dollars on fun diversions? Read on and decide. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Gourmet Gift Baskets

Man accused of breaking puppy's legs in front of deaf girl

California - An Oakland man has been charged with animal abuse for allegedly breaking the front legs of a Pomeranian puppy in front of its owner, the deaf 11-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, authorities said Friday. Kem Eap, 31, of Oakland has been charged by Alameda County prosecutors with two felony counts of animal abuse after a 4-month-old puppy named Chloe was found with its two front legs broken. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Amazon Books

Mother Gets 3 Months for Hitting Sex Offender with Baseball Bat

TACOMA, Washington - A judge in the state of Washington has sentenced a mother to three months in jail for hitting a convicted sex offender with an aluminum baseball bat.
Before her sentencing yesterday, Tammy Lee Gibson told the judge that laws were needed to keep convicted sexual predators away from children. The 40-year-old mother of two pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of third-degree assault in January. More... Video... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Netflix

Woman smoking a cigarette while hooked to an oxygen supply set herself on fire

Ohio - A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire early Friday and badly burned her lower body, Middletown fire officials said. It was the third such fire in Middletown this year, and a frightening illustration of the power of nicotine, experts say. Any number of doctors can tell tales of patients who won't stop smoking even when the habit is the reason they need to be hooked to oxygen tanks to be able to breathe. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Relax The Back

Sex charge teacher walks free from court - No harm done

UK - Controversial judge Julian Hall today let a teacher who had sex with a 15-year-old boy walk free after saying he wasn’t sure she harmed him. Catherine Armstrong, 33, had promised the boy a “birthday bonk” for his 16th and had sex with him several times while he was still 15. She initially denied the charges but then admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child and one of touching him while in a position of trust. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Plow & Hearth

Ex-Sheriff, Jailers Charged With Inmate Sex, Drugs

FORT WORTH, Texas — A former North Texas sheriff and some ex-jailers were among 17 people named Friday in a 106-count indictment on charges ranging from having sex with inmates to taking them drugs. Several women who worked as jailers are charged with having sex with inmates and taking them drugs, cell phones and cigarettes in 2007 and 2008. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Caribou Coffee Company

Apple's iPhone Flops in Japan - Now Sold for Free

Japan - Apple's iPhone is a hit everywhere in the world — except for Japan.
It turns out that Apple's video-playing, music-downloading, motion-sensing handset is just too, well, backward for the Japanese market.
In fact, the iPhone is such a flop in the Land of the Rising Sun that it's being given away free with a 2-year contract, Wired News reports. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Moto Sport

Man steals an ambulance that arrived to help him after a car wreck

WILLOW CREEK, California - A man was arrested for allegedly stealing an ambulance that arrived to help him after a car crash. The California Highway Patrol said a 20-year-old man drove his Honda Accord off State Route 299 and over an embankment into several trees Thursday night. When emergency personnel arrived, he refused treatment. Instead he hopped into the ambulance and sped away. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Dale and Thomas Popcorn

Man Uses Fake Money To Buy Fake Drugs From A Fake Drug Dealer

Tennessee - A man was been arrested after police said he used counterfeit money to purchase fake OxyContin pills from an undercover officer. Unicoi County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 21-year-old man on Tuesday and charged him with criminal conspiracy with schedule II drugs, forgery and criminal simulation. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Sirius Satellite Radio

5-year-old boy injured after he falls off hood of moving car driven by his mother

Texas - A young boy was injured after he apparently fell off of a moving car in West Bexar County Friday afternoon. Reports indicate the 5-year-old boy was riding on the hood of a car being driven by his mother when he fell off and hit the ground. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Paul Fredrick Men Style

Theives toss a feral cat into the crowd to cause panic

Somaliland - Thieves caused chaos outside a Somaliland mosque late on Thursday when they took advantage of a power cut to throw a stray cat into the crowd, triggering a stampede so they could rob worshippers.
Large screens had been set up outside Hargeisa's packed Ali Matan Mosque so thousands of people could watch a sermon by Sheikh Moustafa Hagi Ismael Hassan, one of the Horn of Africa country's most senior Muslim clerics. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Wayside Gardens

Weeks Before Family Murder-Suicide, Daughter Spoke Up

Florida - Just weeks before a Florida father shot and killed his wife and two of his daughters before taking his own life, one of the girls confided in classmates that he'd been molesting her for years.
Priscila Amador, 14, told two friends at school about the alleged sexual abuse by her father, Pablo Josue Amador, according to the Miami Herald.
She said it had been going on since she was in elementary school, starting when she was between 6 and 8 years old. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - SwissOutpost

Neo-Nazis 'exploiting financial crisis'

Germany - Neo-Nazis are using the global financial crisis to stir resentment against immigrants in Germany and recruit new members, a defector says. Uwe Luthardt, a former senior member of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, told Spiegel Online that the neo-Nazi group saw it as an opportune time to try and restore the policies of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Jewelry Web

Proposed Gun License Law Has Some People Concerned

Texas - We rarely hear any Democrat candidates talking about increased regulations and restrictions on the right to bear arms. Why? They know it’s a losing issue at the polls.
But once they get into power, the liberals are ready to make another run at law-abiding gun owners in America. And now with President Obama ready to play along, they are pushing harder than ever before. HR 45, known as the “Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act” is raising great concern here in Texas. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Join The NRA

Ex-Jail Guard Gets 28 Years for Smuggling Syringes, Pot in Tacos to Inmates

TEXARKANA, Arkansas - A former jail guard in Arkansas has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for sneaking syringes, marijuana and cell phones to inmates by hiding the items in food.
Deputies say 26-year-old Jordan Michael Waller carried tacos, pizzas and chili to work at the Miller County jail.
He used the food to hide a stash of cell phones and chargers, methamphetamine, marijuana, tobacco and cigarette rolling papers. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Second Spin

Arsonists Torch Berlin Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woe

Germany - When Berlin resident Simone Klostermann returned from vacation and couldn’t find her Mercedes SLK, she thought it had been towed. Police told her the 35,000- euro ($45,000) car had been torched.
“They’d squirted something flammable into the car’s engine block in the gap between the windshield and the hood,” said Klostermann. “The engine was completely destroyed.” More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Lucky Brand Jeans

Airline considering charging passengers $1.40 to use the lavatory

UK - In an interview on BBC television this morning, Mr O’Leary said that the low-cost airline was looking at the possibility of installing a coin slot on the lavatory door so that “people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny.”
Ironically, in a light-hearted survey conducted by Telegraph Travel last November, we asked readers which service they thought no-frills airlines might start charging for in the future. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Bonsai Boy

Woman filed a $500,000 lawsuit - Neighbor's chihuahuas are too noisy

New York - Ay-yi-yi, Chihuahuas! An Upper West Side woman has filed a $500,000 lawsuit charging that her downstair's yappy little dogs are driving her loco.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, lawyer Paulette Taylor says Theodore Henderson's two Chihuahuas "bark in a manner that is offensive, constant, continuous and incessant." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Just My Size

Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless

London - Acting legend Clint Eastwood , 79, apparently believes that political correctness has rendered modern society humourless, for he accuses younger generations of spending too much time trying to avoid being offensive.
The Dirty Harry star insists that he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fearing that people may brand him "a racist". More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Today Marketplace - Catherines

Man attacked by bees and falls down cliff

Tauranga. - A 20-year-old tramper has been hospitalised after being attacked by a swarm of bees then falling down a 30m bluff near Tauranga.
The man failed to return from a short bush walk near Pyes Pa, 16km south of Tauranga, last night.
Search and rescuers found the man this morning, injured from his fall and stings. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Rush My Passport

Dad accused of putting son in clothes dryer, turning it on

MESA -- A man was arrested for child abuse after police say he turned on a clothes dryer while his 1-year-old son was inside it. Police were called to a Mesa residence for a domestic dispute between Jose Rocha, 19, and other family members who were upset because Rocha had placed his son in the dryer and turned it on. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Mrs. Fields Gifts

Six men accused of stealing wedding ring from blind 86 year old woman

Chattanooga - Six people have been arrested and charged by Chattanooga Police after the attack of a blind 86 year old woman who was living alone. The woman went to the door thinking it was her granddaughter and that's when three men rushed in on her and caused her to fall. The men then pointed a gun at her and demanded money. The suspects then took her cash, credit cards, and the wedding ring off her finger. When questioned by police one juvenile was wearing the 86 year old's wedding band on his finger. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Simply Audiobooks

Traveler got on plane using fake badge

Florida - Carrying a ''Fisher Island Chief of Police'' badge and claiming he was a U.S. air marshal, Mark Rimkufski convinced Miami airline employees to allow him on a flight after the gate had closed, police said.
The ruse landed him in jail, Miami-Dade police said, when he was confronted -- by real air marshals on the plane.
Rimkufski, 49, was later charged with falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Sky Mall

Teacher on leave after student shot with Nerf gun

BEAUFORT - A science teacher at Battery Creek High School was placed on paid administrative leave Monday after authorities say he shot a foam dart from a plastic Nerf gun at a student.
The mother of the 14-year-old girl who was hit with the dart said she wanted to pursue assault charges against Jeffery Baker, 29, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Department report.
Reports indicate the teacher fired a foam dart from the toy gun toward a group of students who were talking and laughing in his classroom. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Apple iTunes

Mayor: Citizens need to be reminded knives are dangerous

Canada - Mayor Stephen Mandel not only wants the city to somehow control the use of knives, he wants to launch a campaign to remind Edmontonians how dangerous blades can be.
"Edmontonians over the past few years have experienced an increasing threat from violence through indiscriminate use of knives," Mandel said today, reading from a formal inquiry he was making.
"Action is needed."
Mandel asked for a report on a potential bylaw change that would "facilitate control of knives." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Orbitz

US spending bill: Big bucks for Hawaiian canoe trips, research into pig smells, and tattoo removal

WASHINGTON - Congress went on a pork-a-palooza yesterday, approving a massive spending bill with big bucks for Hawaiian canoe trips, research into pig smells, and tattoo removal - all while the nation faces an economic crisis.
Among the recipients of federal largesse is the Polynesian Voyaging Society of Honolulu, which got a $238,000 "earmark" in the bill. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Go To My PC

EMT faces court after ignoring a dying man because his house was messy

UK - An ambulanceman will face court after allegedly ignoring a dying man because his house was messy.
Karl Harris and a colleague were sent to aid ailing Barry Baker after he dialled 999 saying he was having a heart attack.
But it is claimed the ambulanceman decided not to attempt to resuscitate the 59-year-old because his house was in such a state. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Discount Pet Products

Injured good Samaritan saves three people - Ticketed for jaywalking

DENVER – A good Samaritan who pushed three people out of the path of a pickup before he was struck and injured has been ticketed for jaywalking. Family members say 58-year-old Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night.
Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800-PetMeds

Women robbers wanted money to throw party

Arizona - Two young women are in jail this morning after police say they robbed two elderly women at gunpoint to get money to throw a party.
Yuliana A. Galviz, 20, and 21-year-old Karina Hernandez-Benitez are now facing charges of armed robbery, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault with a firearm and forgery.
The women told a friend that they wanted to throw a party but they didn’t have any money. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Vermont Teddy Bear

Officer was chasing car with excessive window tint before fatal crash

Florida - A Jacksonville traffic cop was speeding after a vehicle with excessive window tint when the officer plowed into a pickup truck, killing an 86-year-old man last month, the Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday night. Officer Marcus Kilpatrick was driving an estimated 98 mph when his patrol car struck the truck driven by Matthew Brice Ogden Jr. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - US Online Rx

Missing man gets 7 parking tickets while dead in back seat

Florida - The identity of man found dead inside a car in College Park on Monday afternoon has been confirmed as that of a Gainesville engineer missing since Feb. 11. Now city employees are answering questions about why the man's car was ticketed seven times by city employees, beginning the day after he was last seen alive. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Prisoner Pen Pal

Bus driver takes out-of-control kids to police station

Australia - A veteran bus driver has driven his out-of-control student passengers to the police station for a dressing down. Westside Bus Company driver Graham King said he had originally worried he might get into trouble over the incident, in which he drove unruly students from St Edmund's and St Mary's College at Ipswich to the Yamanto police station on Tuesday afternoon, The Courier-Mail reports. "They were refusing to put seatbelts on," Mr King explained. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Firebox

Beauty Queen, Mom Arrested for Producing Counterfeit Bills

NORTH WILDWOOD- North Wildwood police detectives, along with the United States Secret Service, made three arrests in connection with the production and use of counterfeit money.
On Feb. 20, Kelly Nowacky, 44, and her daughter, Ashley Fuhrmeister, 21, of North Wildwood, were arrested and charged with possession of forgery devices, forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery, according to a release.
Ashley Fuhrmeister is a former Miss North Wildwood. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Half Price Costumes

Teacher who told student to "go back to Africa" may be suspended by state

Florida - If a teacher told a black student to go back to Africa, what would be fair punishment? The state Department of Education is recommending a one-year suspension of a teaching certificate in just such a case, involving a Pinellas middle school teacher.
According to this administrative complaint, Mark Krieger reportedly became angry when a student failed to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Krieger told the student he was in a free country and should respect it, and that if the student didn't he should go back to Africa, the complaint alleges. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Live Aquaria

Judge's 70-year-old wife fights off 4 robbers with a sauce pan

ELYRIA — The 70-year-old wife of a Lorain County Family Court judge meted out a little domestic justice of her own Tuesday afternoon when she fought off four robbers with her favorite sauce pan.
Ellen Basinski refused to be intimidated by a man and three boys who forced their way into her house on Columbus Street and demanded money.
"One of them picked up my purse and just dumped it out," she said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Denise Austin

U.S. Lawmakers travel lavishly on VIP luxury Air Force jets, stay in upscale hotels

WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers traveled around the globe during Congress' winter recess on VIP luxury Air Force jets, the U.S. television program Inside Edition says.
Using hidden cameras, a reporter and producer from the syndicated show reported that the members of Congress frequently brought their spouses along on the trips to European destinations, where they stayed in upscale hotels. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Madison Ave Mall

Man stabbed stepfather in dispute over cooking

A 30-year-old Elgin man was behind bars Wednesday, charged with stabbing his stepfather 13 times in a dispute over his cooking privileges.
Matthew Mitchell, of the 500 block of Wellington Avenue, has been charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon stemming from the incident Monday night, police said. The stepfather told Mitchell he was not allowed to cook on the stove, sparking an argument that escalated into a physical confrontation, police said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Artistic Labels

Woman Accused Of Breaking Into Home To Do Laundry

MANATEE COUNTY, Florida - A Bradenton woman was charged with felony burglary after she repeatedly broke into a home in her neighborhood to use the clothes washer and dryer in a vacant home, according to an arrest report.
Mary Angela Southwick, 49, was arrested Friday on a burglary charge after she was caught inside a vacant rental home in the 100 block of 17th Street Northwest, the report said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Netflix

Dentist massaged women's chests as part of medical treatment

Woodland, California - The attorney for a Woodland dentist told jurors that his client massaged women's chests as part of a medical treatment.
Defense attorney Michael Rothschild told the six-man, six-woman Yolo County jury that Mark Anderson was treating his female clients for temporomandibular disorder, or TMD. The attorney says the condition affects the muscles of the upper body. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Prep Sportswear

Mayor pulls plan for Houston to use taxpayer funds to pay off personal debts for first-time homebuyers - Outrage Nationwide

Houston - Mayor Bill White yanked a controversial plan that called for the city to use taxpayer funds to pay off some personal debts for first-time homebuyers, following a flood of outrage and criticism from across the city and beyond. “I don’t think we ought to be in the business of paying off someone’s debt so they can buy a house,” White conceded during an impassioned City Council meeting. “Paying off people’s credit cards is ridiculous.” Many council members expressed “embarrassment” over the idea, which received national media attention. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Discount Pet Products

Grandmother is most married woman - 23 times

UK - Mrs Wolfe, 68, is included in the Guinness Book of World Records for the dubious honour of being wed more times than anyone else alive. She has said that she is "addicted to the romance" of getting married. Born Linda Lou Taylor, the American first married in 1957 aged 16, to a 31-year-old called George Scott. The union lasted for seven years, the longest and happiest of any of her marriages. Since then things have tended to go downhill. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Cascio Interstate Music

Infant, 4 Others Shot Along Mardi Gras Parade Route in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS — An infant and at least four other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers, police said.
Two suspects were in custody and the victims were recovering. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Apple iTunes

School Spends $10G a Year to Teach Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spanish

California - A middle school in Southern California is spending $10,000 a year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to 35 of its 650 students -- and all but one of them are already fluent in Spanish. Thirty-four of the kids in the AP class are from Mexico or are the children of Mexican immigrants. They all grew up speaking Spanish at home. The program -- the only one of its kind in California -- has outraged critics. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Duke Diet

Surgeons Use Leeches to Reattach Man's Hand

Australia - Surgeons say it was a miracle that they managed to reattach the hand of a surfer who was mauled by a shark at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Thirty-three-year-old Glenn Orgias was attacked by a great white shark while surfing at dusk almost two weeks ago.
He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital with his hand hanging by a three centimetre piece of skin.
Plastic surgeon Dr Kevin Ho says doctors never expected that they would be able to reattach the hand. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Critics' Choice Video

Two 16-year-old girls arrested in prostitution sting

Phoenix, Arizona - A pair of 16-year-old girls face child prostitution charges for their roles in what police described Monday as a sex operation where the girls recruited and managed other teen girls as young as 14.
Phoenix police vice detectives investigated the girls for nearly five months before making separate arrests earlier this month. The case was investigated separately from the weekend prostitution sweeps led by the FBI, in which Phoenix police made more than 50 arrests. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Amazon Books

State hopes to thwart crocodiles' homing instinct - Tape magnets to their heads

Florida - Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they're not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday.
State biologists are studying the temporary use of magnets to disrupt the internal navigation of federally and state-protected American crocodiles, which have been spotted most often in neighborhoods of Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Animals911.org

Woman fell to her death while chasing a feather

UK - The walker, who was in her 40s, had been following a coastal footpath when she spotted the bird feather and went to pick it up.
As the wind caught it and blew it close to the edge, she ignored safety warnings and climbed over metal railings lining the cliff top.
She then lost her footing and fell from the rocky outcrop to the beach below at Budleigh Salterton, Devon. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800-PetMeds

Starbucks sues to shutter Starcups café

Sweden - A Gothenburg-area café owner is confident he will prevail in a naming dispute with US coffee shop giant Starbucks. Arman Najafpour runs the Starcups café in Gothenburg’s Linnéstaden neighbourhood and can’t understand why the American coffee shop chain might have a problem with his café. “Starcups is a totally different thing,” he told the Göteborgs-Posten (GP) newspaper. “I’ve had the name registered here in Sweden and there are certain rules that apply. I’m never going to back down.” More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Handango