Dick Patrol

San Antonio cop busted for raping tranny.

The transgender woman claims officer Craig Nash picked her up just south of Downtown early Thursday morning, handcuffed her, and told her to lay down in the back seat of a patrol car. She told investigators Nash then drove to a nearby location, un-handcuffed her, and sexually assaulted her.

The alleged victim said after the assault, Nash dropped her off at a nearby school. She then took a bus to a police station to report the assault. According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by News 4 WOAI, the alleged victim told officers Nash "wasn't going to get away with this."

Police arrested Nash after the alleged victim identified him in a photo line-up, and police linked his patrol car to the alleged scene using a GPS tracking system.

I hope this pig becomes someone's wife in the slammer.

Big Head

Colossal stone head of pharaoh unearthed.

Killing Kermit

Weed killer castrates frogs.

One of the most common weed killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be contributing to a worldwide decline in amphibian populations, a study published Monday showed.

Traffic Jack

Electronic billboard in Moscow hacked to show porn video, see it here.

Adios Hummer

GM to discontinue the Hummer?

An SUV that once represented one of America's largest trucks is now collapsing.

A Chinese company, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines, announced they would no long buy the Hummer Brand. Hummer officials say plans are already in the works to dissolve the line.

In Mishawaka the AM General Plant has not produced a Hummer in the past year.

To paraphrase comedian John Fugelsang, now how will we know who has a small penis?

Exploding Head Syndrome

Seriously, that's what they call it. I may have it. Let's read more:

Marie Raymond sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night, heart pounding, freaked out by the sound of her name being shouted loud and clear. Other times she'll be awakened by the sound of a huge crash, as if someone has broken a window or knocked over a set of dishes.

"The sound is terrifying — super loud, like someone has broken in," says Raymond, a 38-year-old arts administrator from Seattle. "But when I get up to look around, nothing's amiss and everything's quiet." After dealing with it off and on for the last several months, Raymond believes she may have exploding head syndrome. She hasn't seen a doctor about it, but has done some research online.

As strange as the name sounds, exploding head syndrome is actually a rare and relatively undocumented sleep phenomenon. While sleeping or dozing, a person with the condition hears a terrifically loud sound in their head, such as a bomb exploding, a clash of cymbals or a gun going off.

Oil-Maze-Ing

OK, that was lame, but this is cool.

Researchers have created oil droplets that can find their way through a maze. Getting inanimate objects to trace the path to the area they're most needed is a difficult prospect at the best of times.

In order to work on this problem, researchers at Northwestern have developed a way to send oil droplets through a maze with impressive accuracy. Their goal? Getting cancer drugs where they're needed, via blood vessels that create a difficult-to-navigate labyrinth.

This is Not My Facebook

Freaky mobile Facebook mix-up.

A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.

The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.

In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn't appear the users could have done anything to stop it. The problem adds a dimension to researchers' warnings that there are many ways online information — from mundane data to dark secrets — can go awry

Real Life Jawz

Tourist eaten by "dinosaur-sized" shark in front of onlookers.

"Holy shit. We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house," witness Gregg Coppen posted on Twitter. "That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge."

...

Witnesses described the terrifying scene. The shark was "longer than a minibus", Coppen told the Cape Times newspaper.

He said: "It was this giant shadow heading to something colourful. Then it sort of came out the water and took this colourful lump and went off with it. You could see its whole jaw wrap around the thing which turned out to be a person."

British visitor Phyllis McCartain told the same paper: "We saw the shark come back twice. It had the man's body in its mouth, and his arm was in the air. Then the sea was full of blood."

...

Kathy Geldenhuys was sitting on a nearby bench. She recalled: "My husband had just pointed out how far the man was swimming from the other people. He asked what would happen if he was attacked by a shark, because he was so far away. The words were hardly cold when the shark attacked that man. The shark attacked twice; it turned and attacked the man again; I just saw the blood on the water."

Ghost Balls

Some New York Knicks players say haunted hotel left them sleepless.

For two days, several players had trouble sleeping because they were convinced that their downtown hotel is haunted.

"I definitely believe it," Jared Jeffries said. "The place is haunted. It's scary."

Sky High

Some NASA staff searched after cocaine discovered in shuttle hangar.

Scout's Honor

8 year old Cub Scout on TSA watch list.

Dial for Haiti

Text "HAITI" to 90999 to automatically donate $10 to the American Red Cross' Haiti Earthquake 2010 Relief Operations.

Update: Did this from a prepaid mobile and it while I've received confirmation texts, the money has yet to be taken from my balance.

Update 2: Looks like the donation went through.

Gone But Not Forgotten

R.I.P. Mac Tonnies. I only just found out he'd passed away. What a loss.



You will find his blog Posthuman Blues to be more than worthwhile. You can find his last appearance on Coast to Coast AM here. I always enjoyed his blog and perspective on the universe. Had I gone there more often, I would have known sooner. I'm still in shock. Thanks for visiting Mac, you will be missed. The world needs more people like you, not less. :(

Say It

New machine turns thoughts into speech in real time.

Support Group

Iranian crowd helps convicts escape execution... for now.

The crowd overpowered security services and helped two men convicted of robbery to escape hanging in the province of Kerman, the Fars news agency reported.

The men were recaptured hours later, and justice department officials say they will be put to death on Wednesday.

Awesome Animals

Octopus uses coconut shell as armor.

Finding marks first reported instance of an invertebrate acquiring tools.

Watch the video here.

Billionaire Cave Men

Two dudes living in a cave to inherit billions.

Dong Number

Florida governor's health hotline directs callers to sex chat line.

It's a state-sponsored blooper for the ages: for two months, a recording by Florida Governor Charlie Crist played when parents called KidCare to get advice on health policies for their children. In the audio, Crist gave a number to call for more information. As it happened, that number was a little off.

Instead of details on child health care, callers were redirected to this: "Hey there, sexy guy. Welcome to an exciting new way to go live, one on one, with hot, horny girls waiting right now to talk to you."

Golden Dawn

Has the Earth reached "peak gold"?

Super Swine

Scientists studying "super flu".

British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated.

A total of 189 people have died and more than one million have been infected in the country.

Some doctors have likened the symptoms to those seen in many of the victims of the Spanish flu which caused millions of deaths world-wide after the World War One.

An unnamed doctor in western Ukraine told of the alarming effects of the virus.

He said: 'We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal. They look like they have been burned. It's terrifying.'

Jesus Built My Pick-Up

Dude says Jesus shows up on the truck's window in the morning.



Jim Stevens, of Jonesbororugh, Tennessee, says the face has appeared nearly every morning for the last two weeks.

Mr Stevens admits he's not a particularly religious person, but says he has been awed by the experience.

EyePod

Contact lenses to display graphics.

A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device.

Fat Getaway

Too fat to kill?

A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, he was just too fat to have pulled it off.

An attorney for Edward Ates is making the case that his client wouldn't have had the energy needed to fatally shoot Paul Duncsak, a 40-year-old pharmaceutical executive, from a perch on the staircase.

Lawyer Walter Lesnevich claims that Ates, 62 at the time of the 2006 killing, was in such bad physical shape that he couldn't have pulled off the shooting or the fast getaway the killer made.

Human Animals

Teen gang raped after homecoming dance while a dozen watch.

Police are looking for potentially as many as a dozen spectators and between four and seven actual rapists in this case. Police say some people walked by and actually participated in this crime. No one called police and to make matters worse, authorities told ABC7 some of these people may have recorded this entire rape on their cell phone cameras.

These monsters should be dealt with in the most horrific manner one could imagine. Every single bystander should be shot in the fucking head.

Juiced Mobile

New study links mobile phones to 4 kinds of cancer.

A major international health study has shown that excessive mobile phone use can be linked to four different kinds of cancer.

The research, which has taken 10 years and cost £20million, found that heavy mobile users suffered up to 50 per cent more tumours.

The Daily Snow

Jon Stewart calls CNN on their bullshit.

On his Monday Daily Show, Stewart skewered CNN for tearing apart a comedy skit when they don't even bother to fact check their own guests.

"You fact checked an SNL sketch?" Stewart remarked. "That's what you fact checked?... You got together, did some research, and put together a report on a Saturday Night Live Sketch?

"While you were doing your research did you also find that sharks live in water and don't deliver candy grams. That there's no African American equivalent of Mr. Rogers? And that the majority of boxes don't have dicks in them?"

No Macho

Women on the pill prefer "less macho men"?

Head to Head

Instant messenger for your brain.

New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought -- with the help of electrodes, a computer and Internet connection.

Paper Work

Cuba facing toilet paper shortage.

In Jon We Trust

Jon Stewart America's most trusted anchor?

Full Moon Fever

Canadians to bare their bums in protest of US spying?

A Canadian man is planning what local press called a "moon mission" in protest of a U.S. spy balloon being tested for the Department of Homeland Security. In other words, when the balloon flies, he and other Canadians (he hopes) will give its operators a glimpse at how they feel about the aerial spying.

Wake Up, Make Up

Cosmetics industry use child labor.

Deep in the jungle of Jharkhand state in eastern India, at the end of a rutted track passable only by motorbike, a six-year-old girl named Sonia sat in the scorching midday sun, sifting jagged stones in an open-cast mine in the hope of earning enough money for a meal.

End of Men

Will men become an endangered species?

What makes a man a man? Socially, that is a complicated question. Genetically, however, it is as simple as a single Y chromosome.

But guys, that chromosome is in trouble.

In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance -- in the next few millennia.

So I may have tits in my next life? I really don't see the problem here...

Don't Stop

Hey, did ya hear Michael Jackson died? This is probably my favorite song of his.

Nature Lover

Good lord, I could hike behind her all day long! BTW, Hike Naked Day was last week.

Cops in Hot Water

UK cops waterboarding pot suspects?

Color Me God

Color changing frog worshiped as a god in India?

Muffy, Ditch the Yacht

People can no longer afford their boats in this shit economy.

No Freedom at Liberty

Jerry Falwell's Liberty University bans Democratic students club on campus.

...the club's leadership was told "we are unable to lend support to a club whose parent organization stands against the moral principles held by" the school. "The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine (supports abortion, federal funding of abortion, advocates repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, promotes the "LGBT" agenda, hate crimes, which include sexual orientation and gender identity, socialism, etc.)," Liberty's Vice President of Student Affairs, Mark Hine, apparently told the group via email.

The Perfect Crime

Hairdresser makes would-be robber her sex slave.

The robber, who has not been named, burst into the salon armed with shotgun at about 17.00 on March 14. He demanded money. There were two hairdressers and one client in the salon at the time. One of hairdressers, who was studying judo and taekwondo, disabled the robber with a smashing body blow. Then she carried the unlucky robber to the basement and bound him with a hairdryer cord.

The hairdresser told her scared colleague and the client that she would call the police. But she did not. After work, instead of calling the police, she made her hostage undress. The perverted hairdresser forced the hostage to take several Viagra tablets. She chained the unfortunate robber with pink furry wristbands and painfully raped him for the next three days.

Apparently You Morons Didn't Understand Me the First Time

Guy in Montana flips out on jury duty notice & gets out of it after apology to judge!

Cloak

Science closer to invisibility cloak.

Scientists have rendered objects invisible under near-infrared light.

Buyback Blowout

Dude brings live grenade to gun buyback event in New York.

Rock & Repel

Town uses rock music to repel insects.

The huge flightless insects are a fearsome sight as they advance across the desert in armies of millions that march over, under or into anything in their way.

But the crickets don't much fancy Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, the townspeople figured out three years ago. So next month, Tuscarorans are preparing once again to get out their extension cords, array their stereos in a quarter-circle and tune them to rock station KHIX, full blast, from dawn to dusk. "It is part of our arsenal," says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town's 13 residents.

The More Things Change...

Obama opposes independent torture probe.

Head Like A Hole

Oh dear, I've been shot in the head, think I'll make some tea.

One Nation

President Obama says US is a secular nation.

President Obama told reporters in Turkey that America is not defined by any one religion. "I've said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is, although as I mentioned we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values," said the president.

Yo, Sister

Having a sister makes you happier. But brothers are still dicks.

Having a sister makes you happier and more optimistic, a new study shows, but the same is not true for having a brother.

Thin Blue Lie

Cop plants gun on dead teen.

A Minneapolis family is suing after attorneys discovered in police records what they say is proof that a 19-year-old gunned down by an officer in 2006 while allegedly waving a gun, was actually unarmed.

Officer Jason Anderson, who shot Fong Lee eight times after chasing him through a playground, was honored for his bravery after a Baikal .380 was found just two feet from the corpse.

But a new suit filed by Fong's family carries the weight of police records which indicate officer Anderson had taken the Russian firearm from his precinct's evidence locker, where it had been logged after a burglary in 2004. Attorneys for Fong's family also released video surveillance images which they say prove Lee was not armed.

An additional apparent buoy to Fong's family: the gun, which was allegedly waived at police, did not turn up any fingerprints or DNA, despite the chief of police claiming otherwise to the victim's family and a citizen panel.

Head Buzz

Marijuana helps fight brain cancer?

Future Crime

Cops ID 200 schoolchildren as potential future terrorists.

The programme, run by the Association of Chief Police Officers, asks teachers, parents and other community figures to be vigilant for signs that may indicate an attraction to extreme views or susceptibility to being "groomed" by radicalisers.

Jobless to Topless

More women turn to stripping during economic crisis.

As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago’s Pink Monkey gentleman’s club, she makes almost that much in one good night.

The tough job market is prompting a growing number of women across the country to dance in strip clubs, appear in adult movies or pose for magazines like Hustler.

Friendly Neighborhood Fireman

Spider-Man saves autistic child.

A Thai fireman dressed as Spider-Man used the superhero costume in order to coax the boy down from a third-floor ledge at a special needs school in the nation's capital

Running Scared

Memo: AIG employees are scared of you.

This leaked internal corporate memo from AIG advises employees on how to avoid being beaten to death by angry mobs in the streets. Among other things, AIG t-shirts, bags, and umbrellas are to be destroyed, and workers are instructed to always "walk in pairs," utilizing the buddy system practiced on elementary school field trips.

Poor Health

Nearly 1 in 5 American workers go without health insurance.

The Great Recession

Browse this collection of photos showing scenes from the recession.

Mind Over Matters

Do people "think themselves sick"?

Trashy Move

UK trashcans spy on homeowners.

Two million households now have microchips in their bins in a move by councils that paves the way for the introduction of a pay-as-you-throw bin tax.

Pot Shot

Student shot for smoking pot?

Apartment neighbors of Grand Valley State University student Derek Copp say they cannot fathom what prompted police to shoot him late Wednesday in a drug-related raid. But they said they were aware of marijuana odors in the complex.

Watch a newscast clip at the link above.

Tool Time

Power Saw + Sex Toy = Bad Idea

Maryland State Police airlifted the 27-year-old woman to Prince George's County Hospital Center early Sunday morning after she was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber saw blade, TheBayNet.com first reported.

Life-O-Matic

"Artificial life" in the next 5 years?

"The momentum is building - we're knocking at the door."

A synthetic, made-to-order living system could produce everything from new drugs to biofuels and greenhouse gas absorbers.

Opponents of the controversial research claim the technology could lead to machines becoming "almost human".

Crazy Sickness

Mass hysteria outbreak in Central America?

n outbreak of mass hysteria is reported to have struck three indigenous communities living near the river Coco in northern Nicaragua. A total of 43 people have reportedly fallen ill with what is known locally as grisi siknis ("crazy sickness").

Cop on Tape

Cop arrests priest for filming them.

A police report says the Rev. James Manship was confronted and arrested Feb. 19 because he was holding an "unknown shiny silver object" and struggled with an officer who was trying to take it from him. But a 15-second video released this week by Manship's attorneys shows East Haven police Officer David Cari asking Manship, "Is there a reason you have a camera on me?"

"I'm taking a video of what's going on here," Manship replies.

"Well, I'll tell you what, what I'm going to do with that camera," Cari says as he approaches the priest. The tape then goes blank.

Rotten Food

Tomatoes and modern day slavery?

Lucas, a Guatemalan in his thirties, had slipped across the border to make money to send home for the care of an ailing parent. He expected to earn about $200 a week in the fields. Cesar Navarrete, then a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, agreed to provide room and board at his family's home on South Seventh Street and extend credit to cover the periods when there were no tomatoes to pick.

Lucas's "room" turned out to be the back of a box truck in the junk-strewn yard, shared with two or three other workers. It lacked running water and a toilet, so occupants urinated and defecated in a corner. For that, Navarrete docked Lucas's pay by $20 a week. According to court papers, he also charged Lucas for two meager meals a day: eggs, beans, rice, tortillas, and, occasionally, some sort of meat. Cold showers from a garden hose in the backyard were $5 each. Everything had a price. Lucas was soon $300 in debt. After a month of ten-hour workdays, he figured he should have paid that debt off.

But when Lucas—slightly built and standing less than five and a half feet tall—inquired about the balance, Navarrete threatened to beat him should he ever try to leave. Instead of providing an accounting, Navarrete took Lucas’s paychecks, cashed them, and randomly doled out pocket money, $20 some weeks, other weeks $50. Over the years, Navarrete and members of his extended family deprived Lucas of $55,000.

Cat Boy

Blue-eyed Chinese kid can see and read in the dark.

Repo Man Down

Car repo violence on the rise.

Alone in his mobile home off a winding dirt road, Jimmy Tanks heard a commotion at 2:30 a.m. just outside his bedroom window: Somebody was messing with his car.

The 67-year-old railroad retiree grabbed a gun, walked out the back door and confronted not a thief but a repo man and two helpers trying to tow off the Chrysler Sebring. Shots were fired, and Tanks wound up dead, a bullet in his chest.

Drug Wars

Legalizing weed could curb drug cartel violence.

On Friday, Democrat Terry Goddard, Arizona's Attorney General, said that while he's not in favor of legalizing marijuana, he thinks it should be debated as a way of curbing violence in the increasingly deadly clashes between Mexico's gangs.

He emphasized that over 1,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence "this year."

Steal Your Facebook

Facebook melts your brain.

Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.

Dark Future

Climate change could trigger mass migrations and world war.

Snow Sale

If you like doing blow, you'll be glad to know the price of cocaine will be plunging.

The Shit Before The Fan

The global economic crisis worsens.

As the global economic crisis deepens, tempers around the world are getting shorter. French and British trade unions are organizing strikes, Putin is sending troops into the streets and Beijing is trying to buy itself calm.

Prove It!

The new tactic in home foreclosure defense.

Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork.

And just like that, the foreclosure proceedings came to a standstill.

Life in Photos

Google and LIFE online photo archive.



Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Photo by: Ralph Morse

Family Support

Patient wakes after family pulls plug.

The 56-year-old Vista man's heart stopped in late January and he lay in a coma for 96 hours before his family tearfully gave the OK for physicians at Tri-City Medical Center to disconnect life support.

That's when Connelly woke up.

Gee, thanks for waiting 96 whole hours to pull the plug! WTF?

When Celebrity Chimps Attack

Police kill "celebrity" chimp who attacked a woman.

Here's Jeff Corwin talking about the incident on CNN.

Order of Fear

Governments exploited fear of terror.

Former MI5 boss Dame Stella Rimington has accused the Government of exploiting people's fear of terrorism to restrict civil liberties.

She said ministers risked handing a victory to terrorists by making people "live in fear and under a police state".

Dame Stella, who stood down as the Security Service's director general in 1996, also accused the US of going too far.

She claimed the Guantanamo Bay camp and allegations of torture had acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists.

Disposable Heroes

"Kill yourself. Save us the paperwork."

Pfc. Ryan Alderman, now deceased, sought medical help from the Army. He got a fistful of powerful drugs instead.

Drive Them Crazy

A Chinese mistress contest ends in injury, death.

A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep.

But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported.

Customer's Always Right?

President Obama's photo removed from sign after customer complaints.

President Barack Obama's picture was removed this week from a Presidents Day sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary after customers complained that the image did not fit the holiday commemorating the birthdays of past presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

The head of the local NAACP and a commissary employee say it was blatant racism.

One customer, a military retiree, objected this year because of Obama's race, the cashier said.

"He said they're not going to have no black man on the window where he shops," the cashier said.

But a black man on his box of rice is OK? Fucking morons.

The End of Chocolate

Could you imagine a world without chocolate?

Scientists say that now it is chocolate's sustainability that needs to be monitored. The Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Center warns that chocolate may become as rare and expensive as caviar within 20 years.

A number of factors, including climate change, are affecting the farming and production of cacao, or the cocoa plant.

Another one of life's simple pleasures to be enjoyed solely by the rich? Fuck me.

Plant Life

Marijuana better than anti-depressants when treating PTSD.

The Enemy

Iraq War vet says we're losing more soldiers to suicide than to terrorists.

Throw Away the Key

Church killer smiles while pleading guilty.

An out-of-work truck driver smiled Monday as he pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tennessee church last summer because he hated its liberal politics.

"Yes, ma'am, I am guilty as charged," Jim D. Adkisson, 58, told Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz before she sentenced him to life in prison without parole.

The Fear Years

8 Years of Fear, a documentary from Russia Today.

Poisoned Pets

Pesticides in products are killing pets.

Last June Diane Bromenschenkel applied a flea-and-tick product to her English pointer, Wings, so the dog wouldn't get ticks while hunting pheasant in the tall grasslands of western Idaho. Wings, a healthy five-year-old with a sleek white coat and a chocolate brown mask, enjoyed long walks in the woods, bacon treats, and burying things in the yard. But three months after the pesticide was applied, the animal was dead.

Great Quake

Did a man-made dam trigger massive quake in China?

Primetime Porn

Cable company sorry for Superbowl/porn mix-up.

Cable television provider Comcast apologized to customers in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday after the airing of a 30-second clip from a porn movie during the Super Bowl broadcast.

Comcast said it planned to issue a 10-dollar credit to subscribers whose broadcast of the final minutes of the game was interrupted by a scene from a pornographic movie in which a woman unzips a man's pants and performs a sexual act.

Kiss Off

Mall cops arrest women for kissing?

Jessica Garcia intends to prove in court that security officers at Rolling Oaks Mall unfairly targeted her and her girlfriend when they were arrested in December on trespassing and other charges.

Garcia said the officers — a Bexar County sheriff's deputy and an employee from a private security company — began harassing them Dec. 26 because her girlfriend gave her a kiss on the cheek while sitting inside the mall on a bench.

Mall officials said the women, both 22, were acting inappropriately and were told to leave because they were not complying with the shopping center's code of conduct.

Welcome Wagon

Douche bag attacks ballet dancers for speaking Russian?

The 28-year-old man is accused of launching verbal and physical attacks that targeted not only Russians, but blacks and gay people. Five people were hurt, according to a police report.

It all began when the suspects, with another man and two women, climbed into Matthew Loegering's limo at a red light. Loegering was on his way to pick up a customer, but the interlopers refused to get out.

"All of a sudden, on the way [to the hotel], the guy hits me on the neck," Loegering said. "He just starts spazzing out."

Tough guy hit a ballerina, too.

Whistle Stop

NSA whistleblower Russel Tice interviewed on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

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Eraser

A plot to "destroy all the data on [Fannie Mae's] 4,000 computer servers" foiled by authorities.

Cosmetic Killers

The hidden dangers of toiletries.

...research was published showing that common chemicals used in toiletries may make women more likely to be infertile.

Indeed, inside all those gleaming bottles and tubes we take for granted lurks a cocktail of dangerous synthetic chemicals that research suggests may be responsible for everything from reproductive complications to allergies and cancer.

Blow Your Top

Alaska's Mount Redoubt about to blow?

Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska could erupt within days to weeks, say scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, amazing the rest of us with their certainty.

Hummer Bummer

Drivers of Hummers get 5 times more tickets than the rest of us.

Bad Companies

Who are the 10 worst corporations of 2008?

End Date?

Apocalypse in 2012?

Gaydar

Schools could dump students who seem gay.

A California appeals court ruled Monday that a Christian high school can expel students perceived to be lesbians, upholding a 2008 lower court ruling that there were "no triable" elements to the case.

The 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside on Monday upheld California Lutheran High School's right as a private, religious organization to exclude students based on sexual orientation. The ruling was released late Tuesday.

The two 16-year-old girls sued the school for expelling them on the basis of a "bond of intimacy" "characteristic of a lesbian relationship," under a California discrimination law.

Barf After Reading

A man known as the "Stew Maker" was busted recently.

He was known as El Pozolero — The Stew Maker — but his ingredients were less than savoury.

The job of Santiago Meza López was to dispose of the enemies of a notorious drug baron by dissolving them in tubs of acid. Over several years he claims to have "disappeared" 300 enemies of Teodoro García Semental, a former henchman for one of the largest cartels in Mexico and now in a bloody struggle for supremacy over the trade.

Meza, 45, told police that, once their remains had been in the acid baths for 24 hours, he would bury them. In a twisted act of chivalry, he said he only dissolved men, refusing to make women vanish this way. He said that he was paid $600 (£440) a week by García.

Medicine Water

Indian stream found to have highest level of drugs in the world.

The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet — a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment, researchers say.

Those Indian factories produce drugs for much of the world, including many Americans. The result: Some of India's poor are unwittingly consuming an array of chemicals that may be harmful, and could lead to the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria.