Heidi Hankins: 4-Year-Old Genius Joins Mensa With 159 IQ
Heidi Hankins is smarter than you. Well, unless you happen to be Stephen Hawking. The four-year-old from Winchester, England was recently admitted to Mensa with an IQ of 159. The Huffington Post...
View ArticleAudi Buys Ducati
After months of speculation, Volkswagen’s Audi unit has acquired the iconic Italian motorcycle maker Ducati from equity owner Investindustrial. Ducati will be the second high-end auto company under...
View ArticleNJ Bully’s Punch Paralyzes Student, Costs School $4.2 Million in Settlement
Bullying is an eternally hot topic- and the subject of a new documentary, titled simply Bully- but a NJ bully’s punch cost the district in which the incident occurred a whopping $4.2 million after the...
View ArticleRecord Yellowfin Tuna Disqualified Over A Technicality
Sorry son, you are going to have to keep chasing that record. A record 427 pound yellowfin tuna was nabbed off the coast of Mexico. Unfortunately, the record was set aside because a deckhand touched...
View ArticleRomney’s Donations To Fight Gay Marriage Leaked
One of the largest anti-gay marriage groups, the National Organization for Marriage, is accusing the Internal Revenue Service of foul play in the leaking of their donor lists. Confidential donor lists...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Talks About Being Vice President
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went on “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer” today to address the issue of American soldiers posing in pictures with the exploded body parts of suicide bombers....
View ArticleHustler Club Strip Truck Angers San Francisco Neighborhood
Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in San Francisco has really outdid itself this time with its custom made Strip Truck. The Hustler Club Strip Truck an oversized truck with glass walls, a stripper pole and...
View ArticleUSPS Closings Giving Small Businesses Cause For Concern
The imminent closing of 250 USPS offices and distribution centers next month is causing nerves to spread amongst small business owners. The US Postal Service is planning to shut down the offices and...
View Article$412 Check That Bought Rights To Superman Sold For $160,000
A $412 check that bought the rights to the Superman character has sold at an online auction for a sum that would make the Man of Steel himself quake: $160,000. The check from DC Comics is made out to...
View ArticleVatican Nun Crackdown Targets Freewheeling, Rule Breaking US Nuns
First-grade me, terrorized daily by Sister Adelaide, would probably giggle evilly to myself before doing several decades of the rosary in penance for that upon hearing of the Vatican nun crackdown....
View ArticleDeath Penalty Deterring Murder? Experts Can’t Figure It Out
Ohio is going on a killing spree, yesterday state officials executed a death-row inmate and the state has 11 more executions scheduled over the next 20 months, numbers that will make Ohio one of the...
View ArticleMega Millions Winners in Illinois ‘Giggled For Hours’ After Realizing They...
When the jackpot soared to over $650 million and broke records earlier this month, many a hopeful Mega Millions winner mulled over all the stuff they’d buy in the unlikely even their numbers came in....
View ArticleCarnival Star Princess Cruise Ship Ignored Fishing Boat’s Distress Call,...
Earlier this month two men died on a small fishing boat that was lost at sea for 28 days. But the tragedy may have been avoidable. Passengers aboard the Carnival Star Princess Cruise Ship say that they...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Employee Arrested After Spitting In Drink
That fear of a McDonald’s employee spitting in your drink may have come true if you happened to be easting at the McDonald’s location on Northeast Main Street in Simpsonville, SC this past week. An...
View ArticleApple Says Its 95% Compliant Regarding Worker Hours
Apple has come under increased scrutiny in recent months for allowing suppliers, specifically Foxconn, to run an operation in which employees were being forced to work sometimes upwards of 70 hours per...
View ArticleTax Refund Not There Yet? Where’s My Refund Has an App For That
The day of reckoning has been and gone with most Americans finally getting their 2011 returns squared away, and the burning question of the season seems to have morphed to, “so when does my tax refund...
View ArticleMitt Romney Sparks Outrage In Pittsburgh Over ‘CookieGate’
No Mitt Romney isn’t embroiled in some vast right wing conspiracy but to hear the people of Pittsburgh talk about “CookieGate” you would almost think his newest foot in mouth offense was on par with...
View ArticleRita Crundell, Illinois Comptroller, Arrested For Allegedly Embezzling $30...
Rita Crundell, the chief financial officer of Dixon, Illinois, was recently arrested for embezzling $30 million from the city. MSNBC reports that Crundwell, 58, was arrested on Tuesday at City Hall in...
View ArticleCasey Anthony’s Lawyer Thanks ABC News, Says Network Paid For Winning Defense
Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez on Thursday publicly acknowledged that his team was only able to mount a successful defense because ABC news had paid Casey Anthony $200,000. That large sum of money...
View Article44% Of Teens Can Easily Obtain Handguns [Study]
Obtaining a gun is easy for at least 44% of the teenage population according to a recent study released by the Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network (UCAN), an organization based out of Chicago, Il. In...
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