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
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
Government expanding its oversight over America’s farms
New produce safety rules from the government today are intended to help prevent the kind of large-scale outbreaks of food-borne illness that occurred over the past decade linked to fresh spinach, cantaloupes, cucumbers and other foods. Under the rules, the government soon will have new oversight of the farms that grow… Read More
Ohio ISIS sympathizer leads officials in cyber-chase
An Ohio man accused of using social media to promote violence against U.S. service members opened at least eight anonymous online accounts in quick succession to make threats, even as Twitter kept suspending them and federal agents raced to find him, court documents say. The unusual case illustrates the deadly… Read More
Peas, or green beans? The strange new way to pay parking tickets
Parking tickets can be paid with donations of canned food instead of cash during a monthlong “Food for Fines” program in Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the city’s parking authority will accept cans for citations from Nov. 16 to Dec. 18. Those who donate 10 canned food items… Read More
Drug mix-up causes 94 babies?
94 moms who had babies blamed errant birth control packaging and have joined other formerly-pregnant women in a huge negligence lawsuit filed in Philadelphia against several drug companies. The lawsuit follows a 2011 recall of more than 500,000 blister packs after an Iowa customer found the pills packaged out of… Read More
“Goodfellas” mobster goes free
An aging mobster threw his hands into the air and shouted “Free,” grinning as he walked out of a courthouse following his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit Mafia film “Goodfellas.” A federal jury reached the verdict Thursday at a… Read More
[Must Watch] The jet pack is really here… and it’s awesome!
It’s the 21st century, where’s my jetpack, you ask? Not far away, according to inventors David Mayman and Nelson Tyler. Watch as Mayman shows off their JB-9 jetpack by flying through the sky around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Whoa!
Billionaire dad spends HUGE on diamonds for daughter
Dads like him come along only once every blue moon. A Hong Kong billionaire tycoon paid a total of $77 million at auctions in Geneva for two large and rare colored diamonds for his 7-year-old daughter Josephine — and renamed them after her, his office said Thursday. Joseph Lau was… Read More
Man wants $125K over “mascot attack”
A suburban Phoenix official filed a claim for reimbursement against Arizona State University, saying the school mascot seriously injured his back when the costumed character playfully leaped on him at a football game two months after surgery. Tempe City Councilman David Schapira said the mascot’s prank on Sept. 18 set… Read More