For 20 years, Clyde Persley of Santa Cruz worked more than 60 hours a week making candy, driving limousines and waiting by the phone to pick up extra hours at a restaurant. He bought lottery tickets and hoped for his big break. And he got it. Persley, 49, turned in his winning SuperLotto Plus ticket [...]
(June 18) – A volunteer at a Florida swamp sanctuary got an incredibly lucky shot on Tuesday: he filmed the first clear video of a Florida panther in the wild. Dick Brewer, a retired school teacher, began his day at the Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary walking the boardwalk with a friend and fellow volunteer. Brewer [...]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A jobless Taiwan man released from prison stole a box of cotton swabs just to get arrested again because he “could not forget the police department boxed lunches,” officers and local media said Tuesday. The homeless man in Taipei first stole a pair of shoes on Sunday, was detained and released, the [...]
Emma Dausman and Judy Conner are great-grandmothers. They are state champion bowlers, too. The Grand Rapids pair recently won the Division 2 doubles title at the United States Bowling Congress’ Women’s Bowling Association state tournament near Bay City. “It was such an accomplishment for someone with my average. All I could say was ‘Wow,’” [...]
By: Andy Barr (Politico)The Olive Garden restaurant chain is denying that it canceled all of its scheduled ads on CBS late night comic David Letterman’s “Late Show” in response to a crude joke Letterman told about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter and instead contends that its ad schedule concluded. POLITICO reported Thursday that the company [...]
