Author: Amy B Wang
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Deer in Oregon are walking around with arrows stuck in them. Police want to find the culprit.
Someone in southwestern Oregon is either an exceptionally terrible shot or intentionally maiming wild deer with arrows. Either way, state wildlife officials and law enforcement are offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever has been responsible for a curious sight in the Oregon wilderness: live deer roaming around with arrows stuck…
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These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good ‘selfie’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted…
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German village votes to keep bell inscribed with ‘Everything for the Fatherland, Adolf Hitler’
In the tower of a church in a pastoral village in southwestern Germany, there is no mistaking the Nazi origin of one of its bells. A swastika is displayed front and center on the weathered instrument. Above the symbol is an inscription in capital letters: “EVERYTHING FOR THE FATHERLAND,” it states in German. “ADOLF HITLER.” Since 1934, the…
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Kim Cattrall rejects Sarah Jessica Parker’s condolences: ‘Stop exploiting our tragedy’
Lest there was any shred of remaining doubt about Kim Cattrall’s feelings toward her former “Sex and the City” co-star Sarah Jessica Parker, an Instagram post put the matter to rest Saturday. “You are not my friend,” Cattrall wrote in a message directed at Parker, less than one week after her 55-year-old brother, Chris Cattrall,…
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Scientists discover ‘the Holy Grail of dinosaurs’ in Africa
Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna can still remember the day in 2014 when a colleague, Hesham Sallam, emailed him detailed pictures of fossils that had just been unearthed by his team in Egypt. From one photo, depicting the remains of a large lower jaw bone, Lamanna knew right away that Sallam had found a dinosaur. “No pun…
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Air Force One’s new refrigerators will cost taxpayers $24 million
Air Force One is upgrading its refrigerators, and the cost to taxpayers will be a cool $24 million. Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane used by President Trump. Both of those units, which are…
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‘A whole new level of gross’: Photos of raw pork being carted into store sparks investigation
Loretta Seto couldn’t believe what she was seeing at a San Jose supermarket Thursday, so she took our her cellphone and snapped photos of the surreal scene. Two men, dressed in yellow coats, were pushing oversized shopping carts filled with raw, unwrapped meat into the store – presumably for sale. In both carts, the meat…
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A man claims three Alcatraz prisoners ‘barely’ survived a 1962 escape — and that he’s one of them
The questions have stymied law enforcement agencies, haunted family members and intrigued the public for more than half a century. Did the three men who escaped in 1962 from Alcatraz — then known as the world’s most impenetrable island prison, a place for only the most hardened of criminals — survive their brazen attempt? And,…
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Retailers see biggest increase in holiday sales since 2011, report says
Consumer confidence, robust online shopping activity and a slew of procrastinators helped boost holiday retail sales this year to record-setting numbers, preliminary reports show. Holiday sales increased 4.9 percent over the previous year, marking the largest year-over-year increase since 2011, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse report, which tracks retail spending by all payment types.…
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Woman gets $284 billion electric bill, wonders whether it’s her Christmas lights
What can you buy with $284 billion? You could own all of Netflix. Or purchase 747 Boeing 747s, with change to spare. Or erase the national debts of Venezuela, Nigeria, Peru and Iceland, combined. Or, if you’re Mary Horomanski, you could pay for one month’s worth of electricity. Horomanski, from Erie, Pennsylvania, was shocked recently…