From CNN.COM:
Ex-Village People singer faces jail
‘Policeman’ Victor Willis facing drug, gun charges
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — The singer who dressed as a policeman in the flamboyant late 1970s disco band “Village People” has been arrested after disappearing while drug and gun charges against him were pending, officials said on Monday.
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Ok admit it,  just reading […]

From The Denver Channel News 7:
Heart Disease Charity Exec Embezzled $237K To Pay Dominatrix
NEW YORK — A charity foundation’s former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay an Ohio dominatrix to beat him, pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and admitted that he stole more than $237,000.
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$237,000 ?!?!?
Man thats a lot […]

From Hawke’s Bay Today:
Outhouse facade part of museum
A $420,000 extension to Wairoa’s museum has included the facade of an old outhouse, in what its curator dubs “a museum within a museum”.
The 190sq m extension almost doubles the museum’s floor space in the former ANZ Bank on Marine Parade. It now carries a New Zealand Historic […]

 
From YahooNews:
Man Is Charged $4,300 for Four Burgers
PALMDALE, Calif. - Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost George Beane a whopping $4,334.33.
Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled up to the drive-through window last Tuesday. The cashier, however, forgot that she’d entered the $4.33 charge on his debit card […]

From BBC News:
Rare whisky heads for Hong Kong
The last bottle of the world’s oldest single malt whisky is on its way to Hong Kong where it is expected to sell for well over £10,000.
Workers at the family-owned Glenfiddich Distillery in Speyside, bade farewell to the bottle of Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937 on Friday.
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I guess […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Healthy pork may be possible via cloning
Researchers say they have produced pigs full of omega-3 fatty acids
SAN FRANCISCO - A microscopic worm may be the key to heart-friendly bacon.
Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids — the kind believed to […]

 
From CNN:
Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
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I feel safe?  Do you feel safe?  Oh yes I feel safe,  Good […]

 
From WXIA TV Atlanta:
Standoff With Bleeding Man Ends
A man suspected of stabbing two women during a domestic dispute in Southeast Atlanta early Monday morning started to stab himself while holding Atlanta police officers at bay.
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I’ll have to remember this little trick the next time I get caught trying to rob a bank or something.

From MSNBC.COM:
Sinkhole swallows up SUV in New York street
Shocked driver escapes serious injury; vehicle rested on gas main
NEW YORK - A city street collapsed under a sport utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break.
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R.I.P S.U.V

From YahooNews:
US debt clock running out of time, space
NEW YORK (AFP) - Tick, 20,000 dollars, tock, another 20,000 dollars
So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle […]

From News24.com: 
Rabbi orders maiming of dolls
Jerusalem - In a tough break for the children of Orthodox Jewish families, a former grand rabbi of Israel has urged parents to amputate their dolls to avoid the perils of idolatry.
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I don’t believe the Rabbi said there was anything wrong with putting a pegleg on the dollies arm or […]

 
From CNN:
Report: Sleep ‘divorce’ counts
Reports say Islamic couple must wait 100 days to remarry
NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — A Muslim couple in India have been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband “divorced” his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported.
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I wonder if this counts for “Sleep […]

 
From BBC News:
Nano circuit offers big promise
The first computer circuit to be built on a single molecule has been unveiled by researchers in the US.  It was assembled on a single carbon nanotube, a standard component of any nanotechnologist’s toolkit.
The circuit is less than a fifth of the width of a human hair and can […]

From CNN.COM:
33 hurt in superjumbo safety drill
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Thirty-three people suffered minor injuries Sunday during a crucial evacuation drill for the new Airbus A380 superjumbo jet
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This thing holds 873 people.   Why not just go for 1,000 ?   Slackers.