“If Florida moves, it would create chaos. The calendar would be so compressed that the states that are trying to more relevant, that I don’t think it would do any good for them.”
— CHAD CONNELLY, South Carolina GOP chairman, …
“People who ate a contaminated food two weeks ago or even a week ago could still be falling sick weeks later.”
— DR. ROBERT TAUXE of the Center for Disease Control explaining the number of illnesses from listeria-tainted …
Some people crave the self-checkout at grocery stores. Maybe they love the control, or it brings out the kid in them when they scan an item and get rewarded with that special beep. But now a study says that those folks represent …
Think of this as a high-tech treasure hunt. The United States firm Odyssey Marine Exploration — not just a clever name, mind you — has confirmed it has found 200 tons of silver worth $200 million at the bottom of a North …
The city of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., has resorted to fining a family for holding Bible studies in their home as a violation of zoning codes.
Returning stolen property gets tough when you don’t have that property any more. So decedents of William Clark — of Lewis and Clark fame — did the next best thing: they had a replica canoe constructed and returned to the …
Every satellite falls back toward earth. But when it’s a giant, 12,500-pound version (about the size of an average elephant), expected to hit somewhere on earth between Thursday and Saturday, people take notice.
A Canadian rock band may not like American conservative politics all that much, but they might soon change their tune — and get plenty of cash.
First, don’t think this is about that massive blue-diamond necklace Kate Winslet donned for the 1997 movie Titanic. This necklace heist happened over the weekend to a real necklace worn by a survivor of the Titanic’s 1912 sinking.
Fear the minivan. Its power to change has now struck at the heart of pop culture: American drive-thru lines.
Officials have had all kinds of difficulty keeping inmates in the St. Louis Workhouse locked up. But Lorenzo Pollard didn’t help matters much when he fought off more than a dozen guards with self-made nunchucks.
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