Jury to decide if poker is a game of skill or chance. Losers heard muttering about bad luck, winners declare superior skill
LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters Life!) - A court in East London is expected to decide this week whether poker is a game of skill, chance or a combination of both.
Amish cheese factory shuts down over disagreements about technology. Apparently one faction wants to use Linux, the other wants to use Macs
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Amish cheese plant in northeast Iowa has halted operations amid production problems and member complaints that the plant was using electricity and other modern technology to make the cheese.
Former Penn State Player charged with murder. Bloody glove found at scene. I think we know how this one ends
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State football player was arrested Tuesday in the killing of a student who was stabbed 93 times, after tests showed the ex-player's DNA was inside a bloody glove found at the murder scene.
Commercial aircraft may soon sport anti-missile systems
LOS ANGELES - An MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrop Grumman's Guardian anti-missile system took off from Los Angeles International Airport on a commercial flight Tuesday, the company said.
Bad: Attorney found nude attempting to molest a fourteen-year-old girls. Worse: She's his god-daughter. Fark.com: He's discovered by a deputy in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA A Philadelphia lawyer was arrested Monday after alleged inappropriate conduct with a young girl inside Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Center.
Al-Jazeera journalist making a documentary about torture in Egypt will now get a whole lot more access to the story than she wanted
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian authorities on Saturday detained an Al-Jazeera journalist for fabricating scenes of torture staged inside mock Egyptian police stations, but the pan-Arab network said the footage was created with actors for a documentary film.
Experts explain that what is best for recovered kidnapping victims is to be psychoanalyzed by complete strangers on national TV
KIRKWOOD, Missouri (AP) -- For more than four years, Shawn Hornbeck seemed to have had every chance to escape, left alone for hours to ride his bike, play video games and walk past missing-child posters showing his own age-progressed image
Warning sign number one: "He was a very pleasant, kind of low-key, regular guy"
Jan. 14, 2007 — Now that Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby have been found alive and well, attention is turning to their alleged kidnapper, 41-year old Michael Devlin.
100,000 homes without power in Sweden; 1,000,000 tasty little meatballs with toothpicks grow cold
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Jan 14, 2007 (AP)— Hurricane-strength winds whipped across southwestern Sweden Sunday, leaving more than 100,000 households without power and causing major disruptions in train and boat traffic across Scandinavia, officials said.
Oh fashion shows, will you ever make clothes people will wear?
MILAN (Reuters) - Milan's fashion designers, having put up the for sale signs on winter collections, launched their ideas on Sunday for what men should be wearing next autumn -- and Dolce & Gabbana said it would be space-age glitter.
Picnic feud ends with man being whacked over the head with a saucepan. Police report he's since simmered down
A MAN has been hit on the head with a saucepan in a Sydney park during a fight between two families sparked by a football hitting a child.
Hamas leader acknowledges existence of Israel. "I looked behind me, and there it was. I didn't see it until just now"
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas acknowledges the existence of
Israel as a reality but formal recognition will only be considered when a Palestinian state has been created, the movement's exiled leader Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday.
Medical mystery: The smallest people in the world
Jan. 8, 2007 — Although Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley is 3½ years old, she is only 27 inches tall and weighs about 10 pounds, the same as a 1-month-old infant.
Hippies beat up an a capella group for singing the Star Spangled Banner in San Francisco
NEW YORK (AFP) - Members of a close-harmony group from Yale University are recovering after being ambushed and beaten up while on tour in California.
Pork rind and Natural Light stocks skyrocket on the news that the $500 million dollar Florida trailer park sale was approved
BRINY BREEZES, Fla. - Residents of this coastal trailer-park town sitting on beachfront property have voted overwhelmingly to sell their community to a developer for more than $510 million, which could make most of them millionaires. Some residents bought their homes for as little as $35,000.
Los Angeles public transit's one million daily riders report losing prosthetic legs, jaw bones, and cremated remains. Weird tag since no one knew L.A. had public transit
LOS ANGELES, January 10, 2007 - More than one million people a day ride Los Angeles' trains, buses and subways, and as diverse as they are, so are the items they leave behind.
Rabid raccoon attacks Connecticut woman. Can the media find a way to tie in global warming? Oh yeah
ENFIELD, Conn. Jan 10, 2007 (AP)— An woman is undergoing rabies treatment after she was attacked on her porch by a rabid raccoon. Beverly Lanouette said the animal came up from behind Monday and latched onto her leg.
Mother of the year takes her already suspended 13 year old daughter to school so she could fight another girl
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - Two mothers and their 13-year-old daughters were arrested after police say one woman drove her already suspended daughter to school to fight a teenage rival.
Victim of GPS theft goes to eBay, ends up buying back his own GPS device
(CBS) HEMPSTEAD It's a treasure chest of high tech gadgets -- GPS devices, laptops, iPods, cell phones ... all stolen, according to police, from vehicles across the New York area and then sold on eBay by Danial Rangkar of Great Neck.
'Tigger' says he got provoked before whacking boy (with pic goodness)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A confrontation between a costumed Tigger and a child at Walt Disney World that led to a sheriff's investigation and the suspension of the character is grabbing national headlines and was featured on CBS's 'The Early Show' Monday.
100 Best Companies to work for. Go ahead and look, your company's not on there
Shooting straight to the top in its first appearance on our list, the Best Company to Work For in America sets the standard for Silicon Valley and beyond. (more)
That lost plane that was found and then lost again may have been found again
MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) -- The U.S. Navy on Tuesday will scour the western coast off Sulawesi Island in search of the wreckage of a Boeing 737 jetliner that disappeared in a storm more than a week ago with 102 passengers onboard, official said.
Montserrat volcano shoots ash five miles up. Mount St. Helens jealous
OLVESTON, Montserrat - The volcano that destroyed Montserrat's capital in 1997 shot a cloud of ash more than five miles into the sky on Monday, and one of the island's chief scientists said the blast was "a warning call."
Headline writers at CNN getting a tad loopy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has vetoed just one bill in nearly six years in office. That soon may change.
FBI arrests 3 middle eastern men trying to sneak into port of Miami with an 18 wheeler, didn't buy their story involving an elephant, Dom Delouise, and a ton of beer headed for Texarkana
MIAMI - Miscommunication led to the detainment of three men at the Port of Miami on Sunday after authorities became suspicious of their documentation and the contents of their cargo truck, officials said.
Former President Bush discharged after hip implant surgery. However, doctors still think he will be a giant nerd
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush, 82, has been discharged from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota following surgery to replace his right hip, the clinic said on its Web site.
Man walks into a church, sets fire to the Nativity scene, makes the baby Jeebus fry
A man walked into a church, doused a nativity scene with a flammable liquid and set it ablaze in front of a practicing choir, police said.
Brazil orders YouTube to block obscure supermodel sex video, instantly assuring that it will be downloaded and hosted by millions worldwide
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian judge has ordered YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing steamy footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend on the highly trafficked video-sharing site, court officials said Thursday.
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson edges out Chicago's O'Hare as airport you don't want to go through
(AP) ATLANTA, Ga. For the second year in a row, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has retained its title as the nation's busiest in terms of flights, according to government data released Thursday.
