Thursday, January 02, 2025

A conversation with two passengers landed an Orange City, Fla., tow truck driver in jail after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in, police say.

Lilburn police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man. Police said they were called out to a man's home on Hillcrest Drive on Saturday night. A group of friends said they were going to pick up a girl who lived in the area to go ice skating around 10 p.m. when their GPS system sent them to the wrong home.

Like armies everywhere, the German military is filled with macho, chest-thumping rituals. But one battalion has found there's a downside to all that chest-thumping: The male soldiers are growing breasts — and only on their left sides.

A lawsuit claims that the rescue by the government deprived A.I.G.'s shareholders of tens of billions of dollars and took private property for public use without appropriate compensation.

A man on a Thursday Icelandair flight to NYC was retrained with tape and plastic.

CNN's Sandra Endo has the details behind a viral photo of a man who was duct-taped to his airplane seat.

A Brazilian high school student says she is auctioning off her virginity to help her ailing mother. But she rejected an offer to pay for her mother's medical expenses if she stopped the auction.

A Michigan woman spent 11 days behind bars for cursing to herself in a county clerk's office before a retiring superior court judge mercifully overruled the judge who jailed her and ordered her release.

A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple three years ago is fighting the state’s demand that he pay child support.

The German magazine Der Spiegel’s online edition today posted an obituary for George H.W. Bush. It was titled “The Better Bush.” Here is a screenshot of the obituary headline and text: In fact, George H.W. Bush is still alive. The premature death notice was scrubbed without an explanation as to why the magazine’s New York correspondent Marc Pitzke got the story completely wrong. Here is the website announcing that Pitzke’s article can no long be found.