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May 17, 2005
Fort Payne loses its largest birthday cake record after Las Vegas celebrates its 100th birthday. For 15 years, Fort Payne, Alabama proudly held the title of the city to create the world's largest birthday cake. In 1989, the southern city celebrated its 100th birthday with a 128,238-pound cake in the shape of Alabama.
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May 12, 2005
On Thursday, The Italian Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman seeking damages from her ex-husband after failing to tell her he was impotent. The woman, identified as Cristina S. , is charging her husband with denying her "a right to sexuality" and the promise of a family.
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May 11, 2005
A court rules on an Ice Cream Man punches a kid customer after receiving a complaint about his prices. Nazzareno Didiano, 44, was placed on probation and ordered to attend anger management classes Tuesday over the May 2004 incident.
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May 9, 2005
An eBay prank put a high school senior up for bids landed the boy and one of his classmates in trouble. The teenagers have lost their computer privileges for the rest of the school year, Hazen Principal Ed Boger said.
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May 9, 2005
An Ontario man decides to file a class-action lawsuit against two drug manufacturers, claiming medication he took to control Parkinson's disease turned him into a compulsive gambler. Gerry Schick is asking for millions of dollars in compensation from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim accusing the companies of "aggressively" marketing the drug Mirapex "by understating risks associated with the use of the product. "
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