If all Casey Anthony wanted to do was disappear, the paparazzi won’t let that happen. But the courts, for now at least, don’t want her back.
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Message In a Bottle Makes It From Oregon to Hawaii
For pollution’s sake, don’t go rushing to your nearest ocean shore and start tossing note-filled bottles into the seas in search of someone on the other side. But then again, it just might work.
Loose Cash Found Roadside Gives Ohio City a $21,000 Payday
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it did seem to accumulate on the side of a road in Ohio—$21,000 worth.
All Bets Are Off: Quickie Vegas Weddings Are Dwindling
It certainly lacks the pomp of a royal wedding.
Steely Reporter Continues Live Report After Being Shot with a BB Gun
That’s one graceful recovery, especially on live television.
Entire South Dakota Town Goes Up for Sale
Thinking of buying some land? How about owning a whole town along with it?
Rosa Parks’ Archived Writing Reveals Attempted Rape
Before she was known for her defiant act that catapulted the American civil rights movement into prominence — and placed her at the center of it — Rosa Parks had long been a human rights activist and crusader for social …
Woman’s Pro-Gay Marriage Shirt Deemed Offensive at Dollywood
A woman says she was was asked to turn her T-shirt inside-out at a Tennessee theme park because its text, “Marriage Is So Gay,” was considered potentially offensive to other patrons.
Because of Cost Cutting, 1 in 10 Post Offices May Be Licked
All that time you spend hanging out at your local U.S. Postal Service retail outlet may have to be spent elsewhere. Oh, wait. You aren’t visiting your local post office much — and that’s partly why the Postal Service has …
Q&A: Filmmaker Ken Burns on the Danger and Wonder of National Parks
Last week, three young hikers were fatally swept over a Yosemite waterfall after ignoring posted warnings, and national parks were propelled into the news. To get his views on how these lands have shaped the American psyche and …
Skull Found at Pearl Harbor May Belong to Japanese Pilot
Almost 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an excavation crew may have found the skull of a Japanese pilot who died in action.
Yosemite Waterfall Deaths Put National Parks’ Safety Under Scrutiny
Three hikers were swept over Yosemite’s Vernal Fall this week, after bypassing signs and climbing over a metal guardrail to get into the park’s swollen waters.