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A month and a half after Election Day in 2016, Joe Chandler, from Georgia, is refusing to find out who won the presidential election. He says that on the day after the vote he woke up feeling happy and relaxed and decided not to ruin the mood by seeing the election result. So, for 6 weeks he has avoided…

According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, alcohol is now the second most lethal drug in the U. S. It is the second leading killer of the American people, following only tobacco. Deaths from heavy drinking have soared to their highest level in 35 years. All together, “alcohol…

An electronics recycling center in California is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collector’s item. Workers found the Apple I computer inside a box of electronics that a woman had collected from her garage after her husband died. She did not ask for a…

Paul only gave a two star TripAdvisor review for his stay at the four-star Beech Hill Hotel, which overlooks Lake Windermere in Cumbria, UK. He wasn’t happy. As it turns out, his room didn’t have the view he thought it should have. Fair enough. Vacationers staying at a nice lakeside hotel want a room…

In the Disney animated film Frozen, Olaf the snowman sings a song explaining how he longs for summer and all the wonderful things he has heard about the warmer season. His desire is to experience another season of the year and to feel the warmth of the sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axMza-fR3Q…

The French Teacher at Energy Institute High School does not know French. The Houston, Texas public school district hired him after they took disciplinary action against the former French teacher who had 25 years of experience. Students in the class say the new teacher speaks only one word of French,…

Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…

When Animal Control Officer Joe Dainelis responded to a call about a tiger in the drive of a vacant home, he had real concerns. When he arrived, he was convinced that he was looking at a young tiger lying in the driveway of the home and approached it with care. He grabbed a pole and a shield, and called…

Google and computer scientists at Stanford University conducted a study of words used for security questions for online accounts found that many supposedly secure words are a lot less secure than people think. They found hackers could probably guess the answers with ease. For example, a hacker would…

When you are going through airline security to board a flight they make you empty your pockets. Travelers drop their change into the bin along with their other possessions to be x-rayed. In their haste to make it to the gate many of them don’t bother to pick the loose change up again. Last year travelers…

A county in Oregon decided to change the attribution for a quote on a veterans monument to “Unknown” after they were unable to prove that George Washington said it. The quote about respect for military veterans had often been attributed to the first president, so the county included that on the monument.…

Police in New Mexico say a woman who apparently dialed the wrong number and offered to sell drugs to a police detective was arrested. Authorities say 30-year-old Renea Lucero called a police detective thinking the number belonged to a friend of her boyfriend. She asked the detective if he was interested…

In the Disney animated movie Kung Fu Panda, Po is a struggling young panda working in his family’s noodle shop. Through a series of events, he receives the chance of a lifetime, his dream, to train with the Kung Fu masters. Under the leadership of Master OOgway, who is a mature, old turtle, Po begins…

A.J. Clemente was just getting his start as a TV news anchor. In his first broadcast on a North Dakota station, not realizing he was live, he began with two curse words. It was a short career. He was fired. How do you keep this from happening? Keep your thoughts and your speech pure at all times. Then…

Sexual immorality comes in many forms. In an immoral culture people look for simple explanations that explain away misdeeds. In Nigeria, Malam Kamisu Baranda was caught in an act of immorality. When he went before the village elders he insisted that the sex was consensual. According to Baranda they had…

Salon.com reports that Americans spent $50.4 billion on lottery tickets. They further report that poor households spend a much greater portion of their income on lotteries—about 9 percent. While states continue to depend more on gambling income America’s couples continue to languish in poverty. Eleven…

American planes carpeted the Philippine islands with pamphlets announcing the end of the WWII. Hiroo Onoda read the announcement, but without an order from his commanding officer would not stand down. Instead he continued the war in the Jungle. In 1974, nearly 30 years after the September 2, 1945 Armistice…

In 1970, an engineer bought a plain looking wooden chest for about $150. All he wanted was something to put his television on. For the next 43 years, the wooden chest, known as the Mazarin chest sat in the man’s living room. What the man did not know about his television stand was that it was hand crafted…

When explorers discover an unknown island, it is big news. When researchers “undiscover” an island, no one seems to notice. Researchers from Australia officially removed a mysterious place called Sandy Island from Google Earth, after they sailed to the supposed location of the island and found nothing…

Dakoda Garren used coins from a collection valued at over a hundred thousand dollars, spending them at face value, to purchase movie tickets and buy a pizza for himself and his girlfriend Elizabeth Massman. According to police, “One of the coins was a Liberty quarter worth between $1,100 and $18,500.”…

Police in Tennessee had to apologize to a man after he was arrested for using a $50 bill they thought was phony, but turned out to be genuine. Shelbyville police were called to a convenience store after a store clerk called them after a marker used to detect counterfeit money did not indicate the bill…

A group of tourists spent hours on a Saturday night looking for a missing woman near Iceland's Eldgja canyon. The group was travelling through Iceland on a tour bus and stopped near the volcanic canyon in the southern highlands Saturday afternoon. One of the women on the bus left to change her clothes…

In an editorial in the weekly magazine, The Week, editor James Graff points to several recent studies that show parasites in our systems may provide evolutionary reasons for many human actions. For example, a microbe called Toxoplasma gondii, found in the brains of as many as 20% of Americans make us…

Sometimes we just lose focus. It is easy to be distracted from the main thing. Bonnie Miller, a 45-year-old resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan lost her focus. She was walking and became distracted by her smart phone. She was texting while walking and walked right off the pier and into Lake Michigan.…

What do you have in your life that you are sure you just could not do without? The London Science Museum, in a project regarding clean water, took a survey of 3000 British adults. The question regarded what they could not live without. Sunshine received the highest number of votes, and clean drinking…