24Nov Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada
Scientists are today searching for remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky in western Canada before breaking into pieces.
Alan Hildebrand, a University of Calgary planetary scientist, called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade.
Video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball over Saskatoon [...]
07Nov Escapee convicted of killing judge in courtroom
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A jury convicted a man on Friday of murdering a judge in a courtroom and killing three other people during his escape from custody in a spree that gained him instant notoriety, the court said.
Police and the FBI launched a huge manhunt for Brian Nichols in March 2005 after he committed a [...]
14Oct Man tries to pay for fast food meal with pot
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VERO BEACH, Fla. - A McDonald’s cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in. ADVERTISEMENT [...]
13Sep LHC Suicide by Indian Girl
Image by Traskas via Flickr
A girl in India has committed suicide after watching TV reports that a physics experiment could bring about the end of the world, her family says.
Sixteen-year-old Chaya poisoned herself at her home in the central city of Indore, her father, Bihari Lal, said.
He said Chaya had been worried the “world [...]
22Aug Three children survived the Hell-on-Earth plane inferno
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Three children survived the Hell-on-Earth plane infernoBy Tom Worden from Daily Mail
Three children escaped the Spanair jet inferno in which 153 people died after the plane crashed seconds after take-off.
However, all lost their parents or close relatives in the disaster.
And 19 other children, including two babies, died in the carnage, described [...]
22Aug David Hayes shows off his big catch with his granddaughter and her Barbie fishing pole.
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
David Hayes was fishing with his granddaughter in a pond behind his house when she asked him to hold her Barbie fishing rod while she went to the bathroom.
The rest is North Carolina sports history.
Hayes took the fishing rod and seconds later the toy hooked a state-record channel catfish, [...]
