Category: US News
US House Price Still Sliding
Houses are falling faster than on witches in the Land of Oz. That’s houses in the US that is. The house prices are falling at a rate that is beating the slide of the Great Depression and that doesn’t look good at all. The first quarter of this year has seen the housing market fall [...]
Police Shot Lawn Ornament Thinking It’s An Alligator
See ya’ later alligator! That is the title to a popular song of the 1950s and is appropriate to the situation cops found themselves in Independence, Missouri when they opened fire on what they thought was a dangerous alligator lurking in weeds. Officers showed up and saw the menacing creature and opened fire. The creature [...]
Toshiba Thrive Tablet Out In July
Toshiba is now in the arena to develop their own tablet that is supposed to go on sale in July. Toshiba’s device is called Thrive and is about 10 inches with a price tag a bit lower than the industry leader, Apple’s iPad 2. The device is a WiFi only thing that runs on Google [...]
ACLU Backs Porn For South Carolina Inmates
Leave it to the American Civil Liberties Union to come up with the idea that porn should be allowed at a detention center in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. As it turns out the detention center reportedly only allows inmates to read the Bible. The officials there contradict that and say they have a variety of [...]
Bombs At Ikea Stores in Belgium, France & The Netherlands
Like something out of a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, it’s reported that alarm clocks at the Ikea stores in several European countries are blowing up! Belgium, France, and the Netherlands report that small explosives were concealed in the alarm clocks and then detonated at the stores. Fortunately no injuries nor deaths were reported from [...]
South Beach Uneasy Memorial Day
More public unrest during the Memorial Day holiday as in the popular South Beach section of Florida, so far one has been killed and seven injured during some police involved shootings. The annual popular hangout saw so far two officer involved related shootings and some officers were sent to the Mount Sinai Medical Center with [...]
Shale Boom in Texas
A stunning discovery in Texas may lead to an increase of US oil production by 25% within the next ten years as oil companies start drilling in Carrizo Springs. The Texas oil field is called Eagle Ford which is now home to 20 new onshore oil fields that experts say could increase the oil production [...]
Christie Elliot Scandal
It appears that an epidemic of teacher-student relations is going on in the US as yet another female teacher has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a minor. The English teacher, Christie Elliot, 26 of Vail, Arizona turned herself into police after an investigation found she had sent text messages to one of [...]
Prison Riot in California: Two Inmates Stabbed
A riot broke out at the famous San Quentin prison in California Sunday night leaving two inmates stabbed and several others injured. Corrections officers had their hands full as the cafeteria area had close to 200 inmates battling it out in the outdoor recreation yard. Officers used non lethal means to quell the riot that [...]
Catherine Hurd Died
New York is the scene of a mystery of sorts as Mrs. Catherine Hurd, the wife of British diplomat Thomas Hurd was found having fallen from three stories from her east side home. Mrs. Hurd was found suffering from severe trauma and injuries as paramedics tried desperately to save her. Police investigating the situation aren’t [...]
