Ronda Rousey was the UFC’s unstoppable force until Holly Holm used the former champion’s aggression against her to produce one of the sport’s biggest upsets, delivering a knock-out kick to the head of Rousey in the second round. Rousey left the stadium to receive treatment for concussion and facial cuts… Read More
Zebras run wild in the streets of Philadelphia
When you hear hoofbeats, the saying goes, you should think horses, not zebras. In Philadelphia on Sunday, you would have been wrong. A pair of zebras escaped from a circus and went running through the streets of west Philadelphia before they were recaptured, police said. The two animals somehow fled… Read More
Coming soon: Giant robot gladiator fights
Giant fighting robots have never left the realm of science fiction… Until now. Megabots Inc., an Oakland, California-based startup, has built a 15-foot mechanical gladiator called the Mark II and challenged a Japanese firm to an international battle for robot supremacy. Tokyo-based Suidobashi Heavy Industries, maker of the 13-foot Kuratas,… Read More
Government restores child molester’s $5K-a-month pension
Pennsylvania is restoring the nearly $5,000-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away when he was sentenced to decades in prison on child molestation convictions, after a court ruling favored Sandusky Friday. A Commonwealth Court panel ruled unanimously that the State Employees’ Retirement Board… Read More
French Pres: We will be merciless against these barbarians
Speaking at the concert hall where the worst of Friday’s Paris attacks took place, French President Francois Hollande had strong words for the Islamic State. “We are going to lead a fight, it will be pitiless.” Hollande went on, “Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be… Read More
The US stands in solidarity after terror attacks rock Paris
The U.S. stands “in solidarity with France, as it has stood with us so often in the past,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said after this week’s terror attacks in Paris. “This is a devastating attack on our shared values and we at the Department of Justice will do everything within… Read More
Delaware emu panic at an end
An emu whose escape more than 60 days ago prompted lockdowns at two Delaware elementary schools has been captured. Daniel Shortridge is a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. He is quoted by The News-Journal of Wilmington as saying that private parties and state officials netted the flightless bird… Read More
TV star attacked, beaten by homeless man in LA
TV star Pauley Perrette, who plays forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the popular television drama NCIS, says she was “alone, terrified and trapped” when an allegedly homeless man attacked her and threatened to kill her as she walked in front of her Hollywood home. The actress tweeted that she thought… Read More
Trump: Ben Carson is a pathological liar!
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t let up his blistering critique of rival Ben Carson, issuing a new online video ad that calls him a “violent criminal” or “pathological liar.” Trump, brushing aside any recent claims of civility, has equated Carson’s childhood “pathological temper” to the illness of a child… Read More
US Postal Service loses… HOW much in 2015!?
Ouch, $5.1 billion… That the loss the Postal Service reported on Friday for the just-completed 2015 fiscal cycle — but that’s a slight improvement over 2014. The loss reflects continued erosion in the delivery of first class mail as well as expensive mandates for funding retiree health care. There was… Read More