Westchester Couple, Unable To Sell House, Turn It Into A House Of Prostitution
(CBS/AP) The downturn in the housing market appears to have driven two New York homeowners to desperate, illegal measures when their house went unsold.
Police say the Westchester County couple, both mortgage brokers, turned their home into a brothel.
Cop Arrests McDonnald Employee Because His Burger Was 'Too Salty'
UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.
Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.
Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who "tried to thump the salt off."
Hedge Fund Managers' Higher SAT Scores Lead To Better Performance, Study Says
IF investors want a performance edge in their hedge funds, they may want to do a little background research on the managers: look for those who attended colleges with relatively high SAT scores.
Woops! State Biologists Have Been Saving The Wrong Fish Species For 20 Years!
Biologists called the finding a setback and a potential black eye but said there is still hope for restoring the greenback cutthroat trout because at least four pure populations of the fish have been identified.
Man Sues Police Department To Get His Porn Back
(AP) A man recently jailed for secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a police department for the return of his massive porn collection taken during the investigation.
Dennis Saunders, 59, filed suit against San Rafael police in Marin County Superior Court after the department refused to give back some 500 pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to the peeping case.
Tiny 105-Pound Asian Chic Beats 12 Good Fat All-American White Trash Rednecks In Buffalo's Wing-Eating Contest
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - When it comes to wolfing wings, Sonya Thomas is a wiz.
The 105-pound competitive eater who goes by "The Black Widow" bested a dozen beefy rivals Saturday night, scarfing 173 wings in 12 minutes to win the wing-eating contest at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.
"That's 5.17 pounds of wings," said Brian Kahle, spokesman for the annual Labour Day weekend event in the city where Buffalo wings were born.
Man Claims New Age Book Store Helped Him Win $330 Million Lottery Jackpot
He and his wife, Denise, were on their way to the shop where he occasionally teaches Wicca and Reiki (RAY’kee) healing when they stopped at a liquor store and bought two $5 Mega Millions tickets for Friday night’s estimated $330 million jackpot. On Sunday, he said one ticket was a winner.
Odd Odds - Couple Wins Multimillion Dollar Jackpot Twice In Ten Years
NEW YORK - How lucky can you get?
Adeline and Eugene Angelo won $5 million Thursday after buying the winning ticket in last week's New York Lotto. In 1996, they won $2.5 million after splitting a $10 million jackpot with three other people.
Eugene Angelo, 81, said he and his wife would share their new fortune with their three sons and their families. Taking the lump-sum payment of $2.5 million, Eugene and Adeline and each of their sons will get about $513,000 before taxes.
8-Year-Old Runs 2,213 Miles to Beijing
100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette
An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle on her birthday cake.
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.
She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside.
