Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Children, Family, Impressive, Life & Death, Nature, Shocking, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 21 July, 2008 | No Comments »
LICHTENBERG, Germany - Different coloured twins were born in Germany’s town of Lichtenberg, the British Daily Mail newspaper reports. Although they come from a mixed couple, doctors say the case is one in a million. Their mother Florence comes from Ghana while father Stephan is German.
One of the newly born brothers, Ryan, is light-skinned, and [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Awards, Britney Spears, Caught, Celebrities, Children, Decision, Entertainment, Family, Wow on Friday, 18 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears has agreed to hand the parenting reins over to Kevin Federline.
K-Fed’s longtime attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, exclusively tells E! News the divorced duo have reached a settlement in their long-gestating custody case.
According to the agreement signed by all parties, Federline gets sole legal and physical custody of sons Sean Preston [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Bad Teachers, Caught, Children, Crime, Education, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Relationships, Schools, Sexual, Shocking, Signs of the Times, Students, Terrible, To Ponder, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 14 July, 2008 | No Comments »
SAN DIEGO - Grossmont Union High School District Governing Board President Larry Urdahl still can’t believe that four Helix High School teachers violated students’ trust by allegedly engaging in inappropriate relationships with them.
That’s why the board wants the charter school to give them evidence it’s curing these types of problems.
“This is not about the Grossmont [...]
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Posted in Alert, Caught, Celebrities, Children, Entertainment, Family, Life & Death, Medical, Relationships, Wellness, Wow on Sunday, 13 July, 2008 | No Comments »
NICE, France (AP) — Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world’s most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins - a boy and a girl - and all “are doing marvelously well,” the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital [...]
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Posted in Animals & Wildlife, Astonishing, Children, Emergency, Horrific, Shocking, Terrible, Wellness, Wow on Sunday, 29 June, 2008 | No Comments »
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anchorage police say a teenage girl taking part in a 24-hour bike race was severely injured after a grizzly bear attack.
The girl was riding early Sunday on a park trail when attacked. She used her cell phone to call 911 but was unable to communicate.
Another biker found the mauled girl around 1:30 [...]
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — They aren’t America’s heaviest newborn twins on record, but they certainly tip the scales: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth this week, a North Carolina hospital announced Friday.
Freda Springs, spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center, said the twins were [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Breaking News, Caught, Children, Emergency, Horrific, Investigation, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Mother Nature, Natural Disasters, Search & Rescue, Shocking, Terrible, Trajedy, Weather, Wellness on Wednesday, 11 June, 2008 | No Comments »
BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — A tornado slammed a Boy Scout camp in the remote hills of western Iowa late Wednesday, killing at least four people, injuring 40 and setting off a frantic search for others who could be trapped in the piles of debris and downed trees.
A search and rescue team has been deployed to [...]
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Posted in Beauty & Fashion, Caught, Celebrities, Children, Entertainment, Family, Life & Death, Marriage & Divorce, Relationships, Wow on Tuesday, 10 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES — Jessica Alba, who married her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to baby girl, according to US Weekly magazine.
Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama “Dark Angel” and the movie “Fantastic Four,” announced last December that she was pregnant and engaged to Warren.
Alba met Warren, [...]
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Posted in Abortion, Astonishing, Caught, Children, Decision, Family, Flip-Flop, Inspiring, Life & Death, Medical, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Wellness, Wow on Sunday, 8 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, England (DailyMail) - Finley Crampton really shouldn’t be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn’t take the risk.
After all, their first son had died of the condition and the second was born with serious kidney damage.
So when Finley’s [...]
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Posted in Awards, Caught, Children, Decision, Family, Government, Heroes, Impressive, Inspiring, Life & Death, Military, Terrorism, To Ponder, Weapons, Wow on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday presented the nation’s highest military award to a 19-year-old soldier who died saving the lives of four comrades in Iraq by jumping on a grenade tossed into their military vehicle. The honored soldier, Army Pfc. Ross McGinnis, “gave all for his country,” the president said somberly.
“No one outside this [...]
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LOS ANGELES - Well, that’s one way to show the measure of a man.
Clay Aiken is expanding the ranks of the Claynation by one, expecting a child with music producer Jaymes Foster this summer.
The sister of music kingpin David Foster, the baby-mama is a Grammy winner who worked with Aiken on several albums, including A [...]
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Posted in Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Crime, Horrific, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Terrible, Trajedy, Weird on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
BERLIN — German police say a mother who believed her newborn baby girl had died has confessed to stashing her in a freezer — but an autopsy showed the child was still alive at the time.
Police in the town of Horb, in southwestern Germany, say the young woman came to them on Sunday and said [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Computers & Technology, Crime, Decision, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Signs of the Times, Terrible, WWW, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 24 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57.
Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care [...]
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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna was married on Saturday evening to Henry Hager, the son of the Virginia Republican Party chairman, in front of more than 200 family members and close friends.
The 26-year-old teacher and author, wearing a white Oscar de la Renta dress, and Hager, wearing a suit, were [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Aviation, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Children, Investigation, Transportation, You've GOT to be Kidding on Tuesday, 6 May, 2008 | No Comments »
PARIS - Terrified passengers claim their plane had to dodge another jet by suddenly climbing 10,000ft because their pilot was “showing off” to a boy in the cockpit.
The pilot of the flight to Paris suddenly pitched left at 33,000ft and the crew allegedly announced the Airbus A320, with 143 passengers, had got “too close” [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Crime, Horrific, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Morons, Shocking, Terrible, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 5 May, 2008 | No Comments »
OLPE, Germany — A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing three of her babies after their bodies were discovered in the family freezer by her grown children looking for pizza, police said Monday.
Police confirmed the grisly find Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Schools, Caught, Children, Decision, Education, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Morons, Oddly, Schools, Shocking, Students, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 1 May, 2008 | No Comments »
MEMPHIS - Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union say Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, went way beyond her role as educator.
The ACLU says in September 2007, Beasley asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because [...]
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TOWSON, Maryland (AP) - A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical. The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference Friday.
There are [...]
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Posted in Age, Astonishing, Caught, Children, Decision, Legal, Marriage & Divorce, Oddly, Relationships, Weird on Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 | No Comments »
SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated on Tuesday because she had not reached puberty.
The court also ordered the child’s family to pay about $250 in compensation to the 30-year-old ex-husband.
The girl’s lawyer and human rights activist Shatha Nasser said the minor had filed a suit in April [...]
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Posted in Abortion, Astonishing, Caught, Children, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Horrific, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Morons, Shocking, Terrible, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Sunday, 13 April, 2008 | No Comments »
HOLLIDAYSBURG — State police are helping Williamsburg, Blair County, authorities find whomever spiked a pregnant teenage girl’s drink with a drug used to abort pregnancies in cows, a drug they think was stolen from a Williamsburg farm, according to a release.
The pregnant girl’s beverage was tainted with Prostamate sometime between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. [...]
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Posted in Age, Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Crime, Horrific, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Morons, Oddly, Paranormal, Psychological, Religious, Shocking, Terrible, Weapons, Weird, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 | No Comments »
CHICAGO - A Waukegan mother claimed her 6-year-old daughter attacked her with a butcher knife because the petite kindergartner was possessed by a demon, Lake County authorities said Tuesday.
Nelly Vazquez-Salazar insisted to investigators that she was defending herself when she fatally slashed and stabbed her 51-pound daughter, Evelyn, whom she had grown concerned about in [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Children, Communication, In Their Own Words, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Medical, Oddly, Psychological, Science, Shocking, To Ponder, Weird, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday, the Mail told the extraordinary story of how a heart transplant recipient in America committed suicide - just like the man whose heart he had received 12 years previously. In another extraordinary twist, it emerged that the recipient had also married the donor’s former wife.
So can elements of a person’s character - [...]
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Posted in Alert, Caught, Children, Communication, Flip-Flop, Global Warming, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Media Bias, Morons, Natural Disasters, Ranting, Scams & Scandals, Science, To Ponder, Weather, Wow, Writings on Monday, 7 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Another post from guest blogger Rick Neale of Florida Today, from the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando:
William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming. In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Broadcast, Caught, Celebrities, Children, Communication, Entertainment, Family, Funny, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Marriage & Divorce, Morons, Oddly, Psychological, Relationships, Shocking, Television, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 4 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
CHICAGO - The man who stunned the world when he announced he was pregnant gave an intimate insight into his personal life in a revealing television interview with Oprah.
Thomas Beatie stripped off for the cameras and bared his baby bump and also revealed pictures from his beauty queen days as a young woman.
However, the 34-year-old [...]
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Posted in Age, Astonishing, Caught, Children, Crime, Education, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Oddly, Psychological, Schools, Shocking, Students, Terrible, Weapons, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 2 April, 2008 | No Comments »
: Items brought to school by the students to injure their teacher :
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.
Teachers at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, uncovered [...]
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