Rest easy, America: The most dangerous US city is … in Mexico. Or so discovered Texas Gov. Rick Perry after an embarrassing goof yesterday. While talking to reporters about border enforcement, Perry brought up the violence in Mexico, saying, “There have been 34,000 Mexicans killed directly attributable to the drug…
Continue reading …Three members of an Antarctic expedition are missing and presumed dead and the two survivors will have some tough questions to answer when they return to their native Norway. The survivors were dropped off by a yacht and planned to ride quad bikes to the South Pole, but were forced…
Continue reading …A bullhorn-toting New Orleans pastor known for disrupting the city’s annual gay festival by loudly denouncing “sinful behavior” has been arrested and charged with masturbating in a public park. Christian fundamentalist Grant Storms was taken into custody after two women complained that he was masturbating in his van while staring…
Continue reading …Towns throughout Ohio and parts of the Midwest braced for more flooding Tuesday, a day after storms and tornadoes damaged buildings and homes in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Three tornadoes touched down in Indiana on Monday. A tornado destroyed three homes in Kentucky’s Henry County, northeast of Louisville, and six…
Continue reading …Residents of the central Arkansas town of Greenbrier—already unsettled by hundreds of mild quakes over the last 6 months —were shaken by the biggest earthquake to hit the state in 35 years late Sunday night. The 4.7 magnitude quake, which was followed by two smaller ones, didn’t cause…
Continue reading …When the logo for London’s 2012 Olympics was unveiled a few years ago, its many critics said it looked like anything from a swastika to a Simpson to a sexual act. Iran has now joined them, saying the jagged logo looks like the word “Zion” and threatening to boycott the…
Continue reading …A Pennsylvania woman has been jailed for life for her part in a bank robbery that used a pizza deliveryman as a weapon. Prosecutors say Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was part of a gang that put a pipe bomb around the deliveryman’s neck and sent him into a bank to demand cash,…
Continue reading …The US military is moving ships and planes closer to Libya as pressure builds on Moammar Gadhafi. The Pentagon says forces are being repositioned to “provide for that flexibility once decisions are made” on a no-fly zone and possibly other measures, the BBC reports. “Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to…
Continue reading …Somali pirates have seized child hostages for what is believed to be the first time. The three children aged 12 to 16 were aboard a Danish sailboat hijacked as it crossed the Indian Ocean, AP reports. Their parents and two Danish crew members were also captured. Danish officials say the…
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