Border patrol intercepts meth shipment hidden in candy, cocaine hidden inside of tombstones
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati began the new year with multiple interceptions of cocaine and methamphetamines at a local express consignment facility. The back of this decorative More...
Duke University brought in ‘therapy horses’ for students during exam week
In case you wondered why this crop of college students are called “Snowflakes,” news comes that Duke University added “therapy horses” to the list of stress relievers for students. From the More...
Border patrol canine, ‘Regal’ alerts agents to 6-inch African millipede in traveler’s suitcase
U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialists working at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) discovered a live giant African millipede that “hitchhiked” onboard a traveler’s More...
NYT published Clemson prof Todd May’s global warming article
A NY Time headline reads, “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?” as Clemson professor Todd May writes, “Human beings are destroying large parts of the inhabitable earth and causing unimaginable suffering More...
Smuggler caught trying to enter JFK airport with 70 live finches hidden in hair rollers
On December 8, 2018, U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialists at John F. Kennedy International Airport stopped an arriving passenger on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana. During the course More...
Travis Stephens, guns vehicle to hurl estranged wife, Beverly Smith from the hood, now he’s in jail and she’s in the hospital
A Florida mother is in critical condition after being thrown for the hood of a van during a domestic fight over her 9-year-old son. Beverly Smith jumped on her estranged husband’s vehicle and the man, Travis More...
Dutch man, 69-year-old Emile Ratelband suing to change his age to 49: he feels younger, says he’s ‘outdated’ on Tinder
A Dutch man in Amsterdam is suing to legally chang is age from 69 to 49 using the transgender argument: ““We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. More...
Woman pulled from Frontier airplane for getting a ‘therapy squirrel’ onboard
A woman boarded a flight from Orlando, Florida to Cleveland, Ohio, and informed the airline that she had an “emotional support animal” with her. That animal turned out to be a squirrel, and she was asked to More...
Christopher Hatting sentenced to federal prison for robbing the same bank three times
U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in three separate bank robberies of the same Wells Fargo branch on Debarr Road, occurring on July More...
Iowa woman, Bobbie Hora-Guill sentenced to prison for not paying taxes on money she stole
A woman who failed to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million she stole from her former employer was sentenced October 2, 2018, to 30 months in federal prison. Bobbie Hora-Guill, age 46, from Bennett, Iowa, received More...
Illinois prisoner Kurt Johnson convicted for putting warden, another prisoner in $20 billion debt using bankruptcy laws
A federal inmate housed within the Communications Management Unit (CMU) at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois has been found guilty of filing fictitious involuntary bankruptcy petitions against federal prison More...
Louisiana: Fort Polk soldier, Ryan Taylor sentenced for making, detonating chemical weapon in Kisatchie National Forest
United States Attorney David C. Joseph and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced that a Fort Polk soldier was sentenced Monday to 135 months in prison for manufacturing and More...
Minnesota: Toys with high lead levels and counterfeit dolls seized at International Falls Port
In two separate incidents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers working at the International Falls Port of Entry targeted a pair of rail containers prior to their arrival in Ranier More...
British couple breaks the law to use death son’s sperm and a surrogate to create a ‘designer grandson’
Three days after their only son’s death, two parents identified only as “wealthy British couple” harvested his sperm to create a “designer grandson.” According to Metro, the couple More...
Nigeria arrests suspected fraudster purporting to be US Attorney General Jeff Sessions
A Nigerian businessman charged who defrauded fellow citizens by misrepresenting himself as United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has been remanded in custody following his arrest by the Economic and Federal More...
Neighbor calls police, DCFS on Illinois mom, Corey Widen, for letting 8-year-old daughter walk dog in neighborhood by herself
Police were called and an Illinois mom was investigated for letting 8-year-old walk the family dog around the block…alone. Corey Widen penned an op-ed for the USA Today chronicling the bizarre turn of events More...
Florida man, Joseph Sireci, arrested for giving his girlfriend a ‘wet willy’
A Florida man in St. Lucie County is making headlines for being arrested after allegedly gave his girlfriend a “wet willy” while he was belligerent. Joseph Sireci, 47, was arrested after his girlfriend claimed More...
Petri Nummi blames beavers for global warming and rising water levels
Cows have been blamed for global warming. So have earthworms, household pets and even human emissions while riding a bike. Now the latest culprits are beavers…well, according to a scientist speaking in Helsinki. “An More...
Florida candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera details her alien abduction, Miami Herald stands by endorsement
The first of two burning questions for Florida voters is if the Miami Herald will rescind there endorsement of Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera for Florida’s 27th Congressional District in Congress as details emerge More...
Miami: Man arrested trying to smuggle python on a plane by hiding it inside of a computer
A man tried to bring a python onto a plane in Miami by hiding it inside a computer hard drive, according to a news report. He and the snake did not make the Barbados-bound flight, authorities said. The incident More...