Author: Lindsey Bever The Washington Post
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Grossest show on TV stars a dermatologist known as Dr. Pimple Popper
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some people are passionate about popping pimples. Sandra Lee, a dermatologist in Southern California, calls them “popaholics” and their sickening yet intriguing obsession “popaholicism.” And she’s giving them exactly what they want — “pops,” oozing blackheads, whiteheads and cysts of all sizes, shapes and colors.…
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A Virgin Mary statue has been ‘weeping’ olive oil. Church leaders can’t explain it.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Inside a Catholic church in New Mexico, a 7-foot bronze statue of the Virgin Mary appears to be “weeping,” church leaders say. The sculpture, known locally as Our Lady of Guadalupe, is not crying human tears. An investigator with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las…
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That viral CPR dog actually has no idea how to perform CPR
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Yes, it’s unmistakably adorable — a pup attempting to perform techniques used in CPR, pouncing on a fallen police officer’s chest. In a video released on Twitter last month by the Municipal Police of Madrid,…
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‘Are you dead, sir?’: Video shows ER doctor mocking patient who said he couldn’t breathe
An emergency room doctor was suspended from a hospital in Northern California after cursing and mocking a patient who said he was having an anxiety attack. Beth Keegstra, a contracted physician at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos, was seen in a video last week arguing with 20-year-old Samuel Bardwell about whether he was ill or simply trying to get narcotic pain relievers. When the patient told her that he…
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Highly drug-resistant gonorrhea confirmed by health officials
A super-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been reported in the United Kingdom following warnings from global public health officials that the common sexually transmitted disease is becoming more difficult to treat. Health officials in England said it is the first time that a case of gonorrhea could not be treated successfully with antibiotics that are commonly used to cure it. Earlier this…
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Airline crew member tried to smuggle $160,000 worth of cocaine in his pants, prosecutors say
A Fly Jamaica Airways crew member is accused of attempting to smuggle nearly nine pounds of cocaine through John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Federal officials said that during a security search late last week, Hugh Hall, a Jamaican citizen, was found to have four packages filled with white powder strapped to his…
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A woman was found half-decomposed, crawling with maggots — and still alive, police say
Warning: This article contains graphic information. A bedridden woman was found living in squalor in her home in northern Georgia, partly decomposing and covered in cockroaches and maggots, authorities said. First responders discovered the woman, who is in her 50s, after responding to a call about an unresponsive person last week at the home in Buford, about 40 miles outside…
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‘He was being a little bully’: Video shows father punishing his 10-year-old with run in the rain
A Virginia father has sparked a conversation about parenting after a video he posted on Facebook went viral. It shows his 10-year-old son running to school — in the rain — as punishment for “being a little bully.” Bryan Thornhill, from Roanoke, said his son, Hayden, was suspended from the school bus for three days last week, so the boy had…
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Nursing assistants accused of sex with patients from Iowa psychiatric and substance abuse center
Two nursing assistants have been accused of engaging in sexual relations with two patients from a psychiatric and substance abuse treatment center in Iowa. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the certified nursing assistants, who were identified by authorities as Paige Lynn Johanningmeier and Megan Marie Penney, developed a relationship with…
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For more than a year, this woman lived in a $1.2 million home with her sister’s corpse
Neighbors had expressed concerns about two sisters growing older together in a million-dollar home in an affluent town not far from Boston. Down a stately tree-lined street in Brookline, Massachusetts, 74-year-old Lynda Waldman and her 67-year-old sister, Hope Wheaton, who were identified by local media, lived in a beautiful but disheveled 1920s home worth $1.2…