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Authorities arrested Tatiana Kudinova, a Russian businessperson, for arranging a hit on her daughter-in-law who had irritated her by making nonstop mother-in-law jokes. The feud began over who should pick up the tab for a family party. But Roxanne, the daughter-in-law, didn’t let it rest and continued…

When Geraldine Fasnacht says that she loves to fly she isn’t talking about in airplanes. Fasnacht, 33, jumps off peaks high in the Swiss Alps. Wearing a wingsuit with fabric stretched between her torso and outstretched arms and legs, she glides forward three or four yards for every 1 yard she descends.…

Derrick Coleman is the only legally deaf football player in the NFL. Without the ability to hear, it is impossible for him to hear the play calling, but it didn’t deter him from realizing his dream to play professional football. He is an inspiration to many people. A little girl, Riley Kovalcik, 9, of…

Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was running in second place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the London Olympics. As they came down the finishing straight, he was trailing the leader, Abel Mutai from Kenya, by a distance too great to overcome. Mutai would get the gold, Anaya would settle for silver.…

Two Canadian researchers are sending a robot hitchhiking across Canada in order to gauge people’s feeling about them. Dr. David Harris Smith and Dr. Faulke Zeller built a device they call the HitchBOT and are hoping drivers will help it travel the 4,000 miles across Canada. The robot is a collection…

Ron Washington as manager of the Texas Rangers was at the peak of his career. After admitting he had been unfaithful to his wife he resigned his position with these words. “I broke her trust. I am here today to own that mistake.” He could have kept his job and remained silent on the indiscretion. Instead…

High School students in a Kentucky high school found a way to say thank you to the janitor that kept their school buildings in order. For Ricky Spaulding, it was just a routine call to go to the gymnasium to clean up a spill, but it was far from routine. This time, Spaulding was presented with a check…

Minnesota teenager Erica Clark found $2800.00 in a McDonald’s parking lot in an envelope filled with $100.00 bills. She immediately called her Dad, who asked her to come home so they could turn the money into the police.—Jim L. Wilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUWkkU0V2o4 Proverbs 2:20-21 (NLT)…

The city commission in Grand Rapids Michigan has decided to remove a 38 year-old section of the city code that forbids a person from willfully annoying someone else. The city attorney Catherine Mish has been going through the city’s books to find outdated ordinances and remove them. She found laws prohibiting…

Jason Lynch is a fan of the Seattle Seahawks football team, but he was surprised when Marshawn Lynch found and returned his wallet. Jason Lynch, who is not related to the football player, accidentally dropped his wallet outside a local gas station because he was distracted when Lynch, the player, drove…

Abraham Zapruder accidently took perhaps the most famous home movie of all time. He captured the assassination of President John Kennedy on his 8 mm movie camera. Later that day when reporters discovered that the film existed there was a rush to purchase the film and the rights to it. The competition…

Sharon Standifird served her country in the Gulf War, climbed mountains, and took care of her family, yet she found she didn’t get the respect she deserved from her children. When she would try to call them on their cell phones, her children choose to “Ignore” her calls. Rather than getting mad, Standifird…

Irene Triplett, the 84-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran is the last recipient of a Civil War Pension. She receives $73.13 each month from the U.S. Government. There are still 16 widows and children of veterans of the 1898 Spanish-American war receiving military pensions, and 4,038 widows, sons,…

A Kingsport, Tennessee woman became an Internet sensation after she and a friend were highlighted during the SEC Network’s coverage of a football game between Kentucky and Tennessee. McKenzie Hoskins said that she and a friend spent 28 hours awake hoping to get good seats and catch a glimpse of her hero,…

When workers at a Goodwill center in Denver, Colorado discovered an old Bible in a box filled with computer parts, they were naturally curious. When they opened the Bible and read the inscription inside, the mystery only deepened. It had been published in 1812, and had the names of the Burbidge family…

Karl Lagerfeld is a multimillionaire German fashion designer. Recently the 77-year-old announced he has fallen in love with Choupette and would like to marry her. The only thing holding him back is the fact that Choupette is a Siamese cat. “I never thought I would fall in love like this with a cat,”…

In Flickering Pixels, Shane Hipps writes, “I was sitting with a different friend at lunch one day. His cell phone rang. I stopped talking and said, “You can get that, if you need to.” Without blinking or checking the phone he said, “You took the time and effort to get together with me. Whoever is calling…

In an era when baseball players chewed tobacco, spitting was common. Today they chew gum and eat sunflower seeds. So why do players, managers, coaches, and umpires still spit? California psychoanalyst, Mary C. Lamia says it is to intimidate their opponents. “Spitting evokes a disgust response.” When…

When the founder of Microsoft appeared on Sixty Minutes, he provided an emotional and unexpected look at the last conversation he had with Steve Jobs. Though, they headed two fiercely competitive rival computer companies, the men talked about the things they had learned in life, their families, and things…

The Wall Street Journal calls nagging the marriage killer. In fact, it is much more common than adultery and according to the journal potentially as toxic. Every couple, at some point faces “the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both…

According to Janie B. Cheaney, writing in World Magazine, atheism is more than rejecting God, it usually means despising people. The late Christopher Hitchens for example said, “My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to…

In Caring Enough to Confront, David Augsberger writes, “Maturity is manifested in learning to be angry (at behaviors) and loving (toward persons) at the same time.” - Caring Enough to Confront Kindle Loc. 690-91 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Proverbs 14:29 NASB “He who is slow to anger has great understanding,…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “We need to develop a new depreciation of things and a new appreciation of people. Things are to be used, and people are to be served.” --Margin, Kindle Loc. 1394 Illustration by Jim L.…

The more people respect their government the more likely they are to follow traffic laws. Government corruption and traffic law compliance go hand in hand. If people think their government is corrupt, they will neglect the most basic of traffic laws. “Less effective governance means that laws are less…

HUSBANDS Bill Hybels is the Pastor of the largest church in America, Willow Creek Community Church, just outside of Chicago, Illinois. His ministry began as an outreach from another church to teenagers during the early 70's. They called the youth ministry Son City. He and his wife Lynne recount the story…