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Catch The Contraband, Inmates!
Outside the North Fork Correctional Unit in Sayre, Okla., Kerri Jo Hickman was arrested for delivering contraband to prison inmates. Hickman employed a T-shirt gun, used by sports team mascots to shoot promotional shirts
Read More »Beer And Marshmallows
Smartmouth Brewing Co. in Norfolk, Va., launched a new “magically ridiculous” beer: a limited-edition IPA — with marshmallows. Chris Neikirk, brewery spokesperson, said the beer is “brewed with in-house toasted marshmallows and bulk dehydrated
Read More »The Joy Of Painting … At School
TV painter Bob Ross has been gone for 24 years. But his inspiration lives on at Madison Middle School in Abilene, Texas, where, on Feb. 7, students in Brady Sloane’s art class donned
Read More »Totally Wasted On Vanilla Extract
A motorist in New Canaan, Conn., called police after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver’s seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie Warner-Grise,
Read More »You’re Only 336 Months Old Once
You’ve seen photo books and calendars depicting swaddled infants surrounded with flowers. In Irmo, S.C., photographer Stephanie Smith re-created the look using her high school friend Nicole Ham. Ham, who is “336 months old,”
Read More »Cremated Remains In Teddy Bear
Rakhi Desai of Houston didn’t think much of the gift she brought home from a white elephant party in mid-December — a brown stuffed bear with a stitched-on heart. As she looked it over
Read More »Apply For Job Then Shoplift Shoes
Dominick Breedlove of Spring Hill, Fla., doomed his chances of landing a job at Kohl’s by getting arrested for shoplifting after his interview. Breedlove arrived for his appointment with human resources and afterward stopped
Read More »Major League Baseball Beetle
Former Toronto Blue Jays star Jose Bautista has another honor to add to his resume, thanks to entomologist Bob Anderson of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Anderson named a newly discovered species of beetle
Read More »Selling Used Socks=$125,000/Year
Roxy Sykes of London had an idea when someone complimented her on her beautiful feet. “I was convinced to set up a social media account to show them off,” she said. But that was
Read More »Preschool Fight Club
Two mothers are suing the Adventure Learning Center day care in St. Louis over an incident in which teachers organized a fight club among preschoolers. The idea was conceived as a way to entertain
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