Sources reported today (August 22) that the federal government would be ending Operation "Scheduled Departure," an innovative pilot program under which illegal immigrants would have up to 90 days to leave the country on their own initiative. Under the program,…
Charles Morrison, 31, of Greensburg, Pa., was convicted on August 19 of charges including felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The deadly weapon: a two-pound garden gnome. Morrison’s 16-year-old stepdaughter told…
If the statute of limitations were 700 years, they’d have missed it by one year.
On August 6, Tremayne Durham was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of an Oregon man in 2006. Durham, who either realized he had a weak case or was just really hungry, agreed to plead guilty in exchange…
Speaking of bats (like I was Thursday), another one showed up today, this one on a highway sign over the M25 motorway in England, near Heathrow. Dressed as Batman, 48-year-old Geoffrey Hibbert said he was roosting on the sign as…
John McCain’s latest campaign ad continues the pop-culture theme of his Britney/Paris ad, this time using the song "Running on Empty" to mock Obama for proposing gas conservation through tire inflation. That’s my song, said Jackson Browne, who is not…
Seems like bats are everywhere these days. While one of them is setting box-office records, a bunch of others are allegedly tormenting Utah schoolchildren. So says a recent lawsuit against the Alpine School District, alleging that bats infested the school…
Embattled Nevada judge Elizabeth Halverson, who as you may recall has been under investigation for some time based on charges that she mistreated staff, improperly met with jurors, fell asleep on the bench, and so on, was soundly defeated in…
You wouldn’t think anyone would have a cause of action against Paris Hilton for not getting enough publicity, but Worldwide Entertainment Group is claiming that it does. Worldwide was apparently the entity responsible for "National Lampoon’s Pledge This!," a 2006…
Bad news for the pro-good-news forces, good news for news-evaluation personnel.