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Utah woman survives 320-foot fall off a cliff

Sarah Crenshaw was edging along a familiar mountain road in Utah when her SUV hit a patch of black ice and slid over a precipice. “I started praying, ‘Don’t let me die on Christmas,’” she later told the Standard-Examiner. Crenshaw, 48, survived the 320-foot tumble into a ravine on the… Read More

Whoops! Health insurer calls thousands of seniors at 3 a.m.

A Massachusetts health insurer is apologizing after sending automated phone calls to as many as 10,000 senior citizens in the wee hours of the morning. Tufts Health Plan accidentally sent the robocall between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Tuesday to remind patients to get their flu shots. A spokeswoman for… Read More

All-time football great dies at 85

Doug Atkins, a defensive lineman who earned induction into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 85. Robert Shelton, a co-owner of Shelton-Hunt Funeral Home in Humboldt, Tennessee, said that Atkins died Wednesday morning of natural causes at Fort Sanders… Read More

NYC mailman throws away 1,000 pieces of Christmas mail

Federal court papers say a postal worker was so overwhelmed by the holiday season workload on his delivery route that he dumped 1,000 pieces of mail in the trash. The New York Post is reporting that Queens postman Daniel Darby was charged with unlawfully delaying and destroying the mail. Federal… Read More

Touching gift for 2-year-old cancer survivor

A 2-year-old cancer survivor with an amputated arm is getting a special gift: A kitten that also suffered an amputation. Matt and Simone Tipton, of Orange County, California had been searching for a kitten for their daughter Scarlette, who was born with a rare form of cancer. Scarlette’s left arm… Read More

Bill Cosby charged with sexual assault

The law has finally caught up with Bill Cosby. Cosby was arrested and charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal case brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s… Read More

France opens massive WWII archives to the public

Hundreds of thousands of files on members of the French resistance, communists and Jews hunted by the collaborationist Vichy government in France during World War II are now accessible to the public. The French government has opened police and legal archives, allowing free access to documents from the regime that… Read More

TV star busted on child porn charges

Authorities say former “Glee” star Mark Salling has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of possessing child pornography. Police Officer Tony Im says the 33-year-old actor was taken into custody Tuesday after a warrant was served at his home in the Sunland area. Im says Salling had been investigated… Read More

Migrants demand to be relocated…. because of ghosts!

Sweden’s migration agency says 35 asylum-seekers have asked to be relocated from a refugee center because they believe it’s haunted by ghosts. Migration Agency officials said Wednesday the asylum-seekers were spooked by flickering lights and noise in the plumbing system at the facility in Grannaforsa, a small village in Smaland… Read More