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[ 16 Jul 2008 | 3 Comments | 653 views ]

Residents in a Pinellas County subdivision found about 30 catfish walking around their neighborhood on Tuesday.

The walking catfish uses its pectoral fin to shuffle up the street and can breathe out of water as long as it stays moist.

Dianna Fernandez maintains the lawns in the area an... read more

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[ 15 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 364 views ]

Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley on Tuesday sentenced 77-year-old Helen Golay and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt to two... read more

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[ 15 Jul 2008 | One Comment | 309 views ]

Jocelyn Kirsch will probably face six years in prison after admitting Monday that she and her boyfriend pulled off a brazen identity-theft scheme that funded trips, fancy dinners and expensive sal... read more

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[ 15 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 534 views ]

Opening arguments started today in the case against Joshua Rosa, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the Dec. 8, 2005, strangulation of a 13-year-old Citrus Park boy.

Prosecutor Christopher Moody said that when Stephen Tomlinson’s body was found at Logan Gate Park in northwest Hil... read more

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[ 14 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 320 views ]

The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev SA. Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from InBev, creating the world’s largest brewer and heading off what was shaping up as an acrimonious fight for t... read more

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[ 13 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 304 views ]

A new national web campaign that encourages young people to post strip-tease videos of themselves as a way of raising clothing donations for homeless youths has quickly run into a firestorm of protest from some of the groups it is supposed to benefit.

A national network that serves homeless y... read more

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[ 9 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 117 views ]

A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota’s top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm.

The man who died was aged 45 and had been under seve... read more

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[ 9 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 334 views ]

Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it.

The court waded into the grisly case after lower court judges ruled nothing in state law banned necro... read more

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[ 9 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 189 views ]

A 16-year-old boy behind the camera of a YouTube video known as “The Flying Baby” is now facing criminal charges. The YouTube video showed a baby spiraling through the air by jumping on an inflatable pillow. Initially only the teen in the video was being charged.

There’s bee... read more

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[ 8 Jul 2008 | One Comment | 256 views ]

It took a year, but Amy Jacobson has gone from swimsuit to lawsuit.

The former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter is seeking more than $1 million in damages from WBBM-Ch. 2 parent CBS, Channel 2 boss Joe Ahern and others, complaining that a tape it aired of her in bathing attire at the home of a potential n... read more