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Man calls 911 after gluing plastic cups to head
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:03 PM PST
The Sideshow - A man who "accidentally" glued five plastic cups to his head put in a desperate call to 911 seeking medical attention. But that's just one of the more ridiculous non-emergency calls being highlighted in the Shields region of England. The Shields Gazette has posted a list of the more unusual Northeast Ambulance Service (NEAS) calls [...] Full Story | Top |
Pittsburgh Zoo hosting "Adults Only" Valentines Day event
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST
The Sideshow - The Pittsburgh Zoo is hosting a Valentines Day dinner that promises to reveal "the intimate secrets of exotic animal mating." It sounds like the ideal romantic date! As the zoo's website explains: Join us for dinner, cocktails, and an adults-only presentation by Henry Kacprzyk, who will reveal the intimate secrets of exotic animal mating. From [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney faces great expectations (and lackluster crowds) in New Hampshire
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:49 PM PST
The Ticket - PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire—Virtually everyone thinks Mitt Romney will win New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary next Tuesday. The big question is how large his margin of victory will be. Romney has led the polls here by 20 points or more for months—a product of the fact he's a former governor of a neighboring state and, now, [...] Full Story | Top |
Utah woman uses fake mustache to rob neighbors
Fri,6 Jan 2012 12:57 PM PST
The Sideshow - A 31-year-old woman in Salt Lake City has been charged with two counts of burglary after she allegedly used a fake mustache to disguise her appearance as she robbed her neighbors. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the unnamed woman's neighbors first noticed that several thousand dollars were missing from a security box inside their [...] Full Story | Top |
Marine biologist could get 20 years in prison for feeding whales
Fri,6 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST
The Sideshow - A California marine biologist is facing up to 20 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines for allegedly feeding a group of killer whales and then altering footage of the incident and lying to authorities. In addition to her carrying out maritime research, Nancy Black operates the popular Monterey Bay Whale Watch [...] Full Story | Top |
Amid tensions, U.S. Navy rescues Iranians from Somali pirates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST
The Envoy - Just days after Iranian and American military officials traded warnings over a U.S. Navy vessel's departure from the Persian Gulf, the United States Navy has rescued 13 Iranian fishermen and their fishing dhow from Somali pirates in the north Arabian sea, the Pentagon said Friday. And in a side irony that punctuates the rare instance [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney opens a major lead in South Carolina
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:21 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—Until recently, Mitt Romney had invested little time or effort in South Carolina, focusing instead on states like New Hampshire and Florida in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. But it may not matter. A new CNN/Time Magazine poll of likely Republican voters in the state finds the former Massachusetts governor with [...] Full Story | Top |
Pakistan's former U.S. envoy now fears for his life
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST
The Envoy - Former Pakistani ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani has been caught in a showdown between Pakistan's army and civilian leaders, and now says he fears for his safety. Haqqani was recalled to Islamabad in November amid accusations by a Pakistani-American businessman of involvement in the delivery to American officials of a memo accusing the Pakistani military of [...] Full Story | Top |
Fox News hires Liz Cheney; NBC fires back at Page Six over report about Chelsea Clinton
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:24 AM PST
The Cutline - Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is joining Fox News as a contributor, a network spokeswoman confirmed to Yahoo News. The news was first reported by Politico's Playbook. Cheney's hire continues the flurry of politicians' daughters landing television jobs. Late last year, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton was hired by NBC News [...] Full Story | Top |
Did Mitt Romney really win the Iowa caucuses? Vote counter Edward L. True claims miscount
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:15 AM PST
The Ticket - According to Edward L. True, Rick Santorum actually won the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night. True took part in the caucus for his Washington Wells precinct in Appanoose County--and helped count the ballots afterward. He claims the state Republican party miscounted his precinct's totals. True contends that the allegedly miscalculated Washington Wells total delivered 20 extra [...] Full Story | Top |
Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity & Finds a Home
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:48 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! Have you ever met someone whose life was changed by social media? Well you're about to. Allow me to introduce AnnMarie Walsh of Chicago, who credits Twitter for helping her escape homelessness. After being homeless for more than four years, Walsh started tweeting from a [...] Full Story | Top |
Liberal groups plan ad buy against local Republican during GOP presidential debates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:20 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--Two liberal groups are teaming up for an ad buy in New Hampshire that will air during the Republican presidential debates this weekend, singling out Rep. Charlie Bass for his support of a Republican Medicare overhaul plan last year. Sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, the 30-second spot, which [...] Full Story | Top |
Thief drops stolen coin collection into Coinstar machine
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:48 PM PST
The Sideshow - Police in Oregon are searching for a suspect who allegedly stole a rare coin collection from his own father and traded it in for pennies on the dollar at a local coin-counting machine. On Christmas day, Dan Johnson Jr. and two friends allegedly broke into a shed on his father's property, where the coin collection [...] Full Story | Top |
Gingrich: Obama will laugh at Romney if they debate
Fri,6 Jan 2012 07:14 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday that if Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination, President Obama would laugh at him when they debate later this year. "Obama's going to laugh at him," Gingrich said. "Obama's going to say, 'I developed Obamacare based on Romneycare, [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum does not have a "Google Problem." He has a civil rights problem.
Fri,6 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST
The Signal - If you type the word "Santorum" into any major search engine, the first result you'll get is to Spreading Santorum, a site created by sex-columnist Dan Savage whose mission is to redefine the candidate's last name as a sex act--or rather, a graphic description of the result of one--and catalog his extreme position on sexual morals. If you [...] Full Story | Top |
Like Iowa's, New Hampshire's economy among the nation's strongest
Fri,6 Jan 2012 06:25 AM PST
The Ticket - By Zachary Roth and Daniel Gross With the Republican presidential nominating fight moving from the frigid chill of the Midwest to the, uh, frigid chill of Northeast, the struggling economy remains a major theme. Which is ironic, given that the first two contests take place in states that, while hardly booming, are doing far better [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich, Mr. Fast Learner
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:18 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--On Wednesday, at his first townhall meeting in New Hampshire after the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich called on an elderly war veteran to ask the first question of his primary campaign swing across the Granite State. Wearing a Veterans of Foreign Wars cap, the man stood and spoke of the plight of veterans in [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: All aboard the Newt Express
Thu,5 Jan 2012 02:04 PM PST
The Ticket - For his campaign swings through Iowa and New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich chartered a bus for members of the press to follow his every move. And over the past few weeks, I've spent several days on the Newt Express, plowing through Midwestern corn fields and down the winding roads of New England. My [...] Full Story | Top |
PAWS cam gives rescuers a dog's-eye-view
Thu,5 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Perhaps because it seems that 2011 was a year rife with natural and man-made disasters, inventors have been making huge strides in creating technology to help with rescue operations in an emergency. There's the robotic sniffer dog and the slightly less … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
80 cent check typo nearly costs man his home
Thu,5 Jan 2012 12:44 PM PST
The Sideshow - A Florida man who accidentally put a "0" near the end of his mortgage check instead of an "8," nearly lost his home. The Tampa Tribune reports that Tom Mudie had recently been approved for a mortgage modification program that lowered his monthly payment by $200. But when Mudie's monthly check was off by 80 [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum-mania hits New Hampshire: the candidate's fashion shoot/meet-and-greet
Thu,5 Jan 2012 03:10 PM PST
The Ticket - TILTON, New Hampshire—The sign outside the hot pink Tilt'n Diner makes a bold promise: "Real Food! Real People!" The latter part of that claim was put to the test Thursday, even before Rick Santorum rolled up in his Ford F-150 pickup truck for a lunchtime meet and greet. About 20 minutes before Santorum's arrival, nearly 20 [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich: Get rid of the super PACs
Thu,5 Jan 2012 03:12 PM PST
The Ticket - LITTLETON, N.H -- Newt Gingrich, who has faced an onslaught of negative ads funded anonymously by so-called super PACs new to this presidential campaign cycle, says that he thinks these new fundraising operations should be eliminated. Super PACs have sprouted up in the wake of FEC v. Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling allowing [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum swarmed by media in New Hampshire
Thu,5 Jan 2012 11:29 AM PST
The Cutline - Fresh off his impressive showing in the Iowa caucuses, Rick Santorum made a campaign stop in New Hampshire at a diner in Tilton on Thursday--with more than 50 reporters and photographers trailing him. The result was a veritable media crush, with Santorum and co. packed into the tiny small-town diner. ABC News' Shush Walshe called [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Thief returns stolen Christmas gifts
Thu,5 Jan 2012 10:37 AM PST
The Sideshow - Here's a fitting final gloss on the season of giving: A man who'd stolen a family's Christmas presents has returned the gifts, along with an apology note. Staten Island resident Mike Valloney caught both acts on his home security camera. "You can see him take the packages," Valloney told local news station WPIX as he watched [...] Full Story | Top |
Matt Damon Wades Into World Water Struggle
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST
Around the World - As a child, before he was a movie star, before he won an Academy award, and before he was one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, Matt Damon was deeply affected by the extreme poverty he witnessed with his mother on trips to Guatemala. Now with the power of name recognition, he has started [...] Full Story | Top |
New Girl Scouts Cookie Fuels Debate about Which Cookie Reigns Supreme
Thu,5 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! It is the first week of the new year, and some of you are probably doing a great job of sticking to that resolution of working out and eating more healthfully. Coincidentally, it's also Girl Scout Cookie season, so the battle of the bulge may [...] Full Story | Top |
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