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Hero Engineer Pulls Train's Emergency Brakes at the Last Minute, Saves Puppy...
A quick-thinking train engineer is being credited with saving the life of a 10-month-old poodle-terrier mix who was tied to the tracks by his elderly owner. The unnamed Union Pacific Railroad engineer...
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Canadian Grandma Who Falsely Believed She Won $40K Playing the Lotto Shocked...
They say the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. But who says that's always a bad thing? 51-year-old Maria Carreiro of Toronto thought she had won $40,000 in last week's Lotto Max drawing,...
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Berserk Conman Clark Rockefeller Found Guilty of 1985 Murder and an...
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a 52-year-old German conman, best known for his infamous posing as Clark Rockefeller, was found guilty of murdering a California man 28 years ago. Gerhartsreiter has...
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Kathleen Parker: Gun Control Is Futile Because I Can't Control My Guns
One thing that's essential in the ongoing discussion about how to regulate guns, everyone agrees, is to hear the voices of ordinary, law-abiding gun owners. So here's columnist Kathleen Parker in the...
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What's a SWUG? Girl, You a SWUG.
A SWUG, or a Senior Washed Up Girl, is a young woman in her final year at a four-year collegiate establishment who has also given up the possibility of youth. They boldly abstain from dressing up,...
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Washington Florist Who Denied Service to Gay Couple Over Her 'Relationship...
The owner of a flower shop in Washington who denied service to a gay couple is being sued for violating the state's consumer protection laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation....
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Feral, Thieving Mountain Men Keep Emerging from America's Woods, Unwillingly
Early last week, authorities in Utah arrested Troy Knapp, the notorious "Mountain Man" outlaw who had been robbing and defacing cabins in the southern portion of the state for nearly a decade. Two days...
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Bitcoin's Roller Coaster Day
Bitcoin finally crashed! And then it didn't. After two weeks in the spotlight, the anonymous techno-libertarian dweeb-currency rocketed past $250 yesterday—only to lose more than half its value over...
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Is This the Redditor Who Claimed to Have Murdered His Sister's Abusive Ex?
This past Saturday, a reddit user named Naratto used the Confession Bear—a meme with which reddit users admit often-true secrets like being obsessed with a brother, loving Justin Bieber, enjoying the...
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Taco Bell Promises to Make Food Relatively Healthy-Ish by 2020
Taco Bell has a new goal: food that won't kill you, or at least not as quickly. On Wednesday, the fast food restaurant announced its plan to have 20% of its combo meals contain just one-third of the...
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Danish Man Acquitted of Sexual Assault Charges Because He Suffers from...
Sexsomnia? Surely that must be some made-up Scandinavian thing, right? Wrong. It's become fairly well-documented disorder over the past few years. The term was invented in 2003 to describe the roughly...
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Two-Year-Old Girl Loses Both Legs in Terrible Lawn Mower Accident
A horrific accident in Palm Harbor, Florida left a two-and-a-half year old girl a triple amputee. The girl's father was driving his riding lawn mower down his driveway when his daughter crossed in...
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Thousands of Syrian Civilians Are Being Killed in Deliberate Air Strikes by...
Bakeries. Bread lines. Hospitals. These are the targets against which the Syrian government is said to have been conducting "indiscriminate and in some cases deliberate" air strikes—killing more than...
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Anonymous Threatens to Expose Nova Scotia Girl's Rapists; Mother Discusses...
This past Sunday, a 17-year-old girl in Nova Scotia named Rehtaeh Parsons died after hanging herself two days earlier. Parsons' mother says her daughter committed suicide because she was raped—and...
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Home Depot Customers Watch In Horror As Man Attempts to Saws Off His Own Arms
Customers at a Home Depot in West Covina, California, were unable to do a thing to stop a man determined to saw off his arms using tools he picked up in the store's aisles. "He walked into the saw...
View ArticleHow You Can Use an Android Phone to Hijack (or Crash) a Plane from the Ground
If you've ever wanted to hijack a plane—but been prevented by your crippling fear of flying—you can now do it from the ground! All you need is an Android phone, a radio transmitter, flight management...
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Girl Arrested for Faking Cancer and Spending Thousands in Donations on Heroin...
Authorities in Suffolk County arrested 21-year-old Brittany Ozarowski for grand larceny Wednesday, alleging she methodically raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for unnecessary "cancer treatments"...
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Rising GOP Star Drops Out of Commencement Over Gay Marriage-Bestiality...
Dr. Ben Carson, the Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and rising Republican star, announced Wednesday that he will no longer be speaking at the commencement for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after making...
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'Religious Freedom'-Fighting NC Lawmaker Opposes Islamic Prayer in...
One of the North Carolina state representatives who co-sponsored a Constitution-overriding bill to declare an official state religion made it fairly clear to a constituent that it was unlikely Islam...
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This Is What Boston Will Look Like if We Don't Cut Carbon Emissions
What will Boston look like a few hundred years from now? It will look like... water, probably. Inspired by The New York Times' "What Could Disappear," photoillustrator Nickolay Lamm has put together...
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