A Baton Rouge, LA woman visiting Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro found an apparently flawless 2. 09-carat white diamond the size of a tooth. Rhonda Bankston reportedly says she found out about the park's surface diamond prospecting on a show about finding cash and treasure. She was into her second day of prospecting by surface searching over a newly plowed field with friends when she spotted the gem.

Organizers are putting the finishing touches to the Waterford crystal ball to welcome 2009. However, unlike the past century when the ball went up only on New Year's Eve, 2009's ball will stay up 365/24/7. The larger ball, made at a studio in Yonkers, is 12 feet in diameter and weighs almost 6 tons, far larger than 2008's Waterford crystal ball which measured 6 feet in diameter and weighs less than one ton.

A nursing home nurse is thought to have killed at least six patients in 2006 by administering fatal drug cocktails. Marty Himebaugh reportedly made comments to co-workers that aroused suspicion. According to CBS news, Himebaugh allegedly told one colleague about a 56-year-old Down syndrome man that "These people aren't meant to live that long. They are meant to die in their teens. And I'm going to help him along. "

An Angel Flight New England (AFNE) plane crashed in a supermarket parking lot here Tuesday morning killing the pilot, a cancer patient and his wife. There were no casualties on the ground. Witnesses saw the single-engine plane stalling before nose-diving at the Hannaford's parking lot on Robert Drive near Route 106 at 10:25 a. m. The plane exploded into a fireball.

After his diplomatic faux pas in Afghanistan which revealed Canadian meddling into Afghan internal politics, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier is hogging the headlines again. This time over a former girlfriend who has been linked to a biker gang. Bernier's ex was Julie Couillard, a former model and aspiring actress, who had relationships with two men linked with the Hells Angels biker gang.