Curiosity killed the squirrel and left thousands of Richmond, Virginia residents without power for several hours. A squirrel reportedly caused a short circuit in an electrical substation, leaving a large area of downtown Richmond without electricity on Friday from 9 a. m. until early afternoon. Crews making repairs to the facility have to shut down a second substation.

Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of virgin shark birth indicating that female sharks can reproduce without mating with a male shark. The possibility exists that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. Through DNA testing, a team of scientists has proven that the offspring of a female blacktip shark, named Tidbit, had no genetic material from a father. Tidbit has lived for eight years at the Virginia Aquarium in the Norfolk Canyon Aquarium since shortly after her birth in the wild, according to a statement from Stony Brook University.

A new lo-tech video game created by a 22-year-old Australian man called "Muslim Massacre" has been deemed tasteless and off the mark as far as satire is concerned. The video game, small freeware PC action game allows the player to be an American whose job is to murder all Muslims using a huge arsenal of weapons.

There is a link between high spending on children's apparel and number of senior residents, according to Pitney Bowes Mapinfo, a demographic research firm. Three of cities with high spending patterns on children's clothes have retirement homes for affluent grandparents. These are in Juneau, Alaska and West Palm Beach and Fort Myers in Florida.

A University of Guelph study published Thursday said 25 percent of fish sold in Toronto and New York are mislabeled. The university study isn't based on fish tales, but DNA analysis. According to the samples analyzed by the university, tuna was actually tilapia, halibut was hake, and red snapper was sold as lavender jobfish, Labrador redfish, perch or cod.