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July 19, 2008
A man who jumped of a bridge into a frigid Maine river was rescued by a fisherman who hooked his shirt and reeled him in. Bob Greene, 42, told the Portland Press Herald that he was having his morning coffee and reading the paper at 4:30 a. m. Thursday when he heard a noise he thought must've been a bird. About twenty minutes later, he saw what he thought was a log floating down the Kennebec River. Soon, he realized it was actually a man and could barely hear a call of "help. "
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July 2, 2008
Topics man, breasts, skin, hair, kids, hot, doctors, paper, female, body, help and woman
A 60-year-old man is pleading for help from doctors because he says he thinks he's turning into a woman. Terry Wright, father of five, claims he started losing his hair and beard 10 years ago, and over time his skin has softened, his breasts have grown and he continues to experience hot flashes.
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May 31, 2008
Topics cocaine, police, houston, mexican, jesus, led, drugs, bus, paper, dogs, water, woman and man
A 61-year-old man was arrested for cross-border drug trafficking after police linked him to a Jesus statue made of cocaine. Bernardino Garcia-Cordova admitted the statue was his after the woman, who was paid $80 to carry two religious statues over the Mexican border, led police to him. She told authorities she did not know the statue was made of drugs and invited them to follow her when she was to drop off the statues at a bus station. That's when they found Garcia-Cordova.
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May 16, 2008
The FBI arrested charged a teenager flight attendant on Thursday for setting fire in the bathroom of a Northwest/Compass flight, leading to an emergency landing. Eder H. Rojas, 19 was angry at having work at a particular route. He set fire inside a paper towel compartment in the rear bathroom of the plane. He was carrying a lighter with him which he managed to smuggle past security. It is this same lighter that he used to set fire to the extra paper tissues he had secured before boarding.
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April 15, 2008
And where do you think you're going Mr. Tomato?! For the next three years, the Department of Agriculture will be embedding produce boxes of state-grown tomatoes with microchips and radio-wave emitting paper thin antennae to keep track of their movement. The pilot project would track and trace tomatoes and other fresh produce from farm to market using radio frequency identification technology in hopes of improving food safety.
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