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Woman with Loaded Gun Boards Plane

Woman with Loaded Gun Boards Plane

At less than six inches and just under 10 ounces, the Ruger .380 is considered by gun owners to be a great little pocket pistol.  So small, in fact, that you can sometimes get one onto an airplane. The New York Daily News reports that a woman flew 938 miles from Orlando, Fla., to Newark, […]

New Americans Make it to Forbes 400

New Americans Make it to Forbes 400

The Forbes list is an annual ode to the American dream. The roster of richest Americans is filled with stories of entrepreneurs who started with little (or at least not a lot) and built a business and personal fortune through hard work, good ideas and perfect timing. Recent additions include Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and […]

Norwegian Woman Wins Lottery Three Times

Norwegian Woman Wins Lottery Three Times

Hege Jeanette Oksnes, who works selling hot dogs at a gas station, might be the luckiest person on the world. So far, every time this 29-year-old mom of three has a baby, a family member hits the Norwegian lotto jackpot. In 2006, Oksnes’s father Leif, 58, won 4.2 million kroner ($718,000) betting on the national […]

Woman With Beard Criticized Online Because of Her Looks

Woman With Beard Criticized Online Because of Her Looks

After someone snapped a photo of her and posted it online, Balpreet Kaur was ridiculed for following the tenants of her Sikh faith. But instead of hiding or lashing out, she politely posted a reply–and turned a bullying situation into a inspiring example of tolerance, support, and inspiration. The photo was taken apparently without Kaur’s […]

MIT Pays Students Not to Enrol

MIT Pays Students Not to Enrol

Normally, schools offer scholarships to entice students to enroll. This year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s business school handed them money to go away. The Sloan School of Management’s full-time M.B.A. program, usually about 400 students, was oversubscribed by an unusually high number of students this year. Rather than expand the class size, the school […]

Katie Holmes Reconnects With First Love Joshua Jackson

Katie Holmes Reconnects With First Love Joshua Jackson

She may have kept a poster of Tom Cruise on her wall as a kid, but Katie Holmes’ first big, real-life romance was with another tall, dark and handsome Hollywood man: Joshua Jackson. Last Thursday, Jackson, 35, revealed that he recently received an out-of-the-blue call from his Dawson’s Creek costar Holmes, now 33 and freshly divorced from Cruise, 50. “Like any old friend, […]

Tiger Woods’ Career Going Down the Drain

Tiger Woods’ Career Going Down the Drain

There is a golf tournament in which Tiger Woods is not very good. Average, really, and it was a major game. In the same 13-year-span in which Woods won 14 major championships, more than 60 tournaments in all and earned his spot as the fiercest competitor on the planet, he posted a pedestrian 13-14-2 record in […]

Viet Nam Confirmes Severity of Rhino Trade

Viet Nam Acknowledges Severity of Rhino Trade

In advance of World Rhino Day this Saturday, WWF and TRAFFIC are calling on Viet Nam to increase efforts to address the illegal trade of rhino horn, which is a terrible threat to rhino populations in both Africa and Asia. Already this year, nearly 400 South African rhinos have been poached to meet the strong […]

Long Island Youth Baseball Coach Arrested for Stalking Rival Coach and Family

Long Island Youth Baseball Coach Arrested for Stalking Rival Coach and Family

A youth baseball coach from Long Island, NY was arrested at a game on Friday night after a disturbing event in which he allegedly stalked and threatened the family of a rival coach. The incident marks the latest and most terrifying case of a coach going far beyond any line of acceptability or legality in […]

5 of the Biggest Celebrity Tax Evaders

5 of the Biggest Celebrity Tax Evaders

The IRS can impose a number of penalties and interest charges. It can even throw you in jail if you don’t file your tax returns, whether you are a big Hollywood star or a country singer, you can get in trouble with the IRS. Here are five celebrities who found themselves on the wrong end […]

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