WTF? Alien SoupWEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Richard Jeni, a standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the “Tonight Show” and appeared in movies, died of a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, police said Sunday.
Police found the 45-year-old comedian alive but gravely injured in a West Hollywood home when they responded to a [...]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed into a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the buried corpse of a suspected drug gang hitman killed days earlier in a shootout, local officials said on Thursday.
The four armed men broke into the graveyard in the town of Poza Rica, Veracruz state, on Tuesday night, tied up a [...]
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BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house — which was some 8 meters (26 feet) [...]
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fast-food chain McDonald’s is testing a bigger high-end Angus burger that costs a little bit more for the extra weight, according to a published report Wednesday.
The Chicago Tribune said the new Third Pounder is currently available only in about 600 restaurant locations in Southern California. At one-third of a pound, the [...]
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M. Night Shyamalan’s next film will be The Happening, a spec script thriller picked up by 20th Century Fox, Variety reported. The studio has pledged a green light for the film, which Shyamalan wrote and will direct in Philadelphia this August. Fox has earmarked the film for a June 2008 release.
The Fox deal, which [...]
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LOS ANGELES - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early [...]
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At the upcoming CeBit electronics show in Germany on March 15, a company called Commodore Gaming is scheduled to release a new line of gaming PCs for the European market.
“25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64, and defined the early computer games experience for millions [...]
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Minneapolis An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.
The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
It happened on the redeye Monday morning from Seattle [...]
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NEW YORK (AP) — So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license.
Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words. But it actually meant more to us than that.
It meant the [...]
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NEW YORK - A New York City health inspector has been removed from field duty after giving a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant infested with rats.
The inspector’s written report said she found 76 fresh rodent droppings when she surveyed the Manhattan KFC Taco Bell last week. She told the restaurant to clean up, sanitize [...]
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