A woman in Vero Beach, Florida, has sued a Palm Beach nightspot claiming that she was injured by a 300-pound Canadian who fell on her there. Kathryn Muth accuses Cucina Dell’Arte of negligence on the grounds that the restaurant is…
Silvio Berlusconi won another term as Italy’s prime minister on April 14, despite being shorter than his rivals. Berlusconi, who is just five feet six inches tall, or a mere 1.71 meters in metric units, is routinely portrayed in political…
At a bend in the road near Joe’s Creek, birds sing and dogs bark. But the rooster no longer crows. So begins this tale of tragedy, as reported in the St. Petersburg Times. According to the report, Gilman the Rooster…
The simultaneous eye-rolling did not help.
The Denver Post reported today that the father of a 4-year-old boy pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on Tuesday, after a heated argument with his ex-girlfriend during which he knocked displays over in the store where she works. The two…
In which the “burn the witch” scene from Monty Python is actually discussed.
I have just learned that, last month, the parties reached a settlement in Stan Murmer’s wrongful-termination lawsuit against his former employer. As you may recall from prior reports on his firing and on the denial of the school district’s motion…
“You’ve got an arrow sticking out of your head, bro.”
In the second animal-assault story from New Zealand in two weeks, police in the North Island town of Whakatane said that William Singalargh, 27, had been arrested for assaulting a boy with a hedgehog. Many details about the assault remain…
Battle will be joined tomorrow in a British case in which a rebel prop designer will challenge George Lucas, emperor of the Star Wars universe, as to who owns the rights to the stormtrooper costumes used in the films. Andrew…