5 Injured When NJ Escalator Reverses
Five people sustained injured this morning when a malfunctioning New Jersey subway escalator suddenly began running in reverse. Riders heading above ground on the Exchange Place PATH station in Jersey City were making their way to the top of the stairway when without warning it began… Read More »
Email‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Director: Torture ‘Reprehensible’
The director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Hollywood dramatization of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, said that she felt obligated to include grisly scenes of detainee torture at the hands of the CIA to tell the whole story of how America’s most wanted… Read More »
Ala. Superfan Cried Over BCS Tickets, Ready for Game
Thousands of die-hard Alabama and Notre Dame fans have converged in Miami for tonight’s BCS Championship game, but two who will sit in the stands have quite a story to share. It’s likely a lot of people in those same stands know the story of… Read More »
Feds: Counterfeit Money Being Manufactured Using Everyday Office Equipment
Millions of counterfeit dollars are flooding cash registers, and more often than not, this “funny money” is being manufactured using everyday office equipment, federal authorities said. Heath Kellogg, a graphic artist known as “The Printer,” his father and four other men were busted in November… Read More »
Louisiana Mall Evacuated After Flash Mob Gets Ugly
The Mall of Louisiana was evacuated Saturday night after a flash mob turned into an ugly brawl. Cellphone video captured the chaos as shoppers jammed escalators and ran for the nearest exits in Baton Rouge, the state capital. Employees at the mall were ordered to… Read More »
Raging Airplane Passenger Duct Taped to Seat
The pitfalls of apparently mixing alcohol and air travel were taken to a new level when an evidently intoxicated man was constrained to his seat with duct tape on an international flight. Iceland Air said the man went on a rampage on a New Year’s… Read More »
New York Man Sets Online Dating Honey Trap to Recover iPhone
A New York musician posed as a saucy femme fatale in order to come face-to-face with the man who took his iPhone. Nadal Nirenberg left his iPhone 4 in a cab on New Year’s Eve. The next morning, around 6 a.m., he noticed someone was… Read More »
Vanilla the Cat Reunited With Owners After 9 Long, Lost Years
They say cats have nine lives, and for one Siamese cat yesterday in San Francisco, after nine long, lost years, he was finally reunited with the people he shared his first life with. Vanilla the cat went missing from his owner, Dara Gerson, nine years… Read More »
Deer Stranded on Ice Coaxed to Safety
Massachusetts rescue crews braved frozen waters in two separate rescues today to bring stranded deer to safety. The state environmental police, the Waltham fire department and the Animal Rescue League managed to coax the first deer from the slippery ice at Stony Brook Basin… Read More »
Thieves Smash Wall, Miss Jewelry Store, Rob KFC
In a jewelry heist gone incredibly wrong, just after 8 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, two thieves planned to rob Wrights Jewelers in Beaudesert, Australia, about 45 miles south of Brisbane. But instead they knocked through the wrong wall and found themselves inside a Kentucky… Read More »
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