Man with hammer goes on mall rampage

Man with hammer goes on mall rampage. A man wielding a hammer wreaked havoc on a Newington, N.H., mall on Thursday, when he ran around and smashed glass storefronts and display cases. No one was hurt Michael Williams, 34, of Dover, Del., was charged with felony criminal mischief.A Dover man is due in court Friday morning after police said he ran through the Fox Run Mall in Newington Thursday smashing windows and display cases with a hammer at six stores.

Miss India detained at airport. Mumbai: Miss India Earth 2011 Hasleen Kaur was detained at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Wednesday night for allegedly carrying branded purses and cosmetics worth Rs. 1.9 lakh without declaring them.

According to Custom officials, Superintendent of Customs Ashok Pandit intercepted Kaur, who had arrived at the airport from Thailand on Wednesday night.

The officials revealed that Hasleen Kaur was carrying branded purses and cosmetics, which she hadn't declared. When the officials approached her and stated that they intended to check the goods, she told them that the purses she was carrying were local products.

Korea towers world trade center exploding

An architecture firm said Friday it “regrets” a bizarre design for two high-rises in Korea reminds people of the twin towers exploding on 9/11.

A mockup shows two soaring skyscrapers connected in the middle by a “pixelated cloud” that evoked the clouds of debris that erupted from the iconic World Trade Center towers after terrorists flew planes into them.

“What the hell were these architects thinking?” asked the headline on a Gizmodo article about the plans for the Seoul apartment buildings.


MVRDV, which is based in the Netherlands, insisted in a statement that it didn’t notice the uncanny similarity that struck many observers instantly.

Woman accused of cooking meth at Wal-Mart

Police say a woman gathered meth-making materials in a Wal-Mart store and tried to mix up a batch near the restrooms. Wal-Mart security reportedly called police after they saw Alisha Halfmoon, 45, acting strangely.

When Alisha Halfmoon took a trip to her local Wal-Mart in Tulsa, Oklahoma she was shopping for more than just an easy bake oven. Police arrested the woman inside the Tulsa Wal-Mart on Thursday December 9th on the suspicion that she was creating methamphetamines inside of the store. This ballsy chemist had grabbed actually grabbed the needed chemicals off of the shelf before finding a quiet place to settle down in the store and nonchalantly make her meth.

80-year-old ducks jail

80-year-old ducks jail _Claire Butcher, an 80-year-old living outside of Boston, has spent the last 45 years providing bread crumbs, dog food, and other snacks to local water fowl.

But officials in Lynn, Massachusetts finally got fed up and slapped the octogenarian with criminal charges, saying that the influx of birds - and the excrement they left behind - was causing a major problem.

After numerous attempts to stop Ms Butcher from feeding the ducks, officials found her guilty of trespassing as well as ignoring a city ban not to feed the animals.

Freed rats share chocolate - New experiments show rats demonstrating compassion and helping other rodents. It is a trait some scientists thought was reserved only for humans and higher primates.

And it is certainly not the sneaky, selfish rap that goes with calling someone a dirty rat. Study shows them nice,

In repeated tests, rats freed another trapped rat in their cage, even when yummy chocolate served as a tempting distraction. Twenty-three of the 30 rats opened the trap by pushing in a door. The rats could have gobbled the chocolate before freeing their partners, but often didn't, choosing to help and share the goodies.

"Basically they told us (freeing another rat) is as important as eating chocolate," said study author Peggy Mason of the University of Chicago. "That's a very striking thing."

Bank CEO gets letter bomb

The CEO of Deutsche Bank one of the largest banks in the world received a letter bomb Wednesday, but didn't open it. Authorities are focusing on an Italian anarchist group.
German authorities say a piece of mail sent to Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann was a fully functional letter bomb capable of exploding.

German prosecutors and police in Hesse state said in a joint statement that a suspicious letter addressed personally to Ackermann and intercepted at the mail room of the bank's Frankfurt headquarters on Wednesday "involved a fully functional letter bomb."

Teen wakes sleepy bus driver

A quick-thinking 17-year-old jumped up and grasped the hand of a school bus driver just as he started nodding off at the wheel.  Emmanuel Williams said the unnamed driver, an eight-year veteran now on leave, had been driving erratically since he picked up students.

Emmanuel Williams, a 17-year-old senior at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma, Wash., was on board his school bus headed home Monday with about 24 fellow Tahoma High students when he noticed the bus swerve several times as it traveled northbound on Interstate 5.

American sentenced to prison for Thai royal insult


BANGKOK (AP) — An American who translated a banned biography of Thailand's king and posted the content online while living in Colorado was sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison Thursday for defaming the country's royal family.

The verdict is the latest so-called lese majeste punishment handed down in the Southeast Asian kingdom, which has come under increasing pressure at home and abroad to reform harsh legislation that critics say is an affront to freedom of expression.

The 55-year-old Thai-born American, Joe Gordon, stood calmly with his ankles shackled in an orange prison uniform as the sentence was read out at a Bangkok criminal court.

J.Lo, Anthony spat?

 "American Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez, 42, and soon-to-be ex-husband Marc Anthony, 43, reportedly had a spat about her boyfriend, Casper Smart, 24. Anthony reportedly refused to tape the next episode of their show  with Lopez.

spat over Scientology is the latest rumored reason for the divorce between Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.

 J-Lo allegedly wanted to send the couple's twins Max and Emme to a special (and probably very expensive) Scientology school, while it seems that Marc was keen on keeping Xenu out of the classroom. If a disagreement over the controversial religion did contribute to their divorce, it wouldn't be the first time it has happened in Hollywood. Marc Anthony J.Lo fight,

Ex-Black Panther escapes death row

Prosecutors have dropped the death penalty against former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a white police officer when he was 27 but claims he was the victim of a racist legal system. A federal court ruled instructions to the jury may have been misleading.

Reporting from Washington—
Former Black Panther and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal will be spared the death penalty, the Philadelphia district attorney announced, bringing a quiet end to a racially charged case that spanned 30 years.

Seth Williams, the city's top prosecutor, said Wednesday that Abu-Jamal would spend the rest of his life in prison. He said the "decision to end this fight [over a death sentence] was not an easy one to make" and that he remained convinced that Abu-Jamal was guilty as charged and deserved to die for his crime.

Weather disasters smash record,The number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the U.S. in 2011 has set a record, forecasters say. Tornadoes that struck 23 states between April and June account for six.

With an almost biblical onslaught of twisters, floods, snow, drought, heat and wildfire, the U.S. in 2011 has seen more weather catastrophes that caused at least $1 billion in damage than it did in all of the 1980s, even after the dollar figures from back then are adjusted for inflation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration added two disasters to the list Wednesday, bringing the total to 12. The two are the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona wildfires and the mid-June tornadoes and severe weather.

Demi attends AA sponsor's funeral

Demi attends AA sponsor's funeral. Demi Moore, still coping with her split from Ashton Kutcher, attended the funeral of her longtime friend and former Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Pattsy Rugg, 70. Moore was photographed crying as she left the service. But over the weekend, Demi Moore put her marriage trouble aside as she attended the funeral of her long-time friend Pattsy Rugg.

Looking understandably upset, Demi clutched a male friend's arm as she left the Christ the King Church in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, following the emotional service. Wearing an all-black outfit, Demi appeared to have lost even more weight since releasing a statement about the end of her marriage, and looked worryingly thin as she headed home.

Famous Adoptions,Well-Known Adopted Persons & Adoptive Parents

Famous adoptions, In celebration of National Adoption Month, we're recognizing famous families that have welcomed children in need. Sure, you know about Angelina Jolie's brood, and you may have heard about a "Sex and the City" cast member and a star of "The Help" who just became new moms. But can you guess the celeb parents of these adoptees? 

Wealthy Couple On Welfare, Feds Say, A wealthy Seattle couple has been accused in a lawsuit of cheating the government out of more than $100,000 in welfare funds. Federal prosecutors filed suit against Lyudmila Shimonova and David Silverstein in civil court Friday, and federal agents raided their $1.2 million lakefront home.

In the lawsuit, federal authorities said the couple received $135,000 in federal housing assistance, plus money from a federal program for destitute disabled people and a state program meant to feed poor families. Meanwhile, they allegedly were taking international vacations to locales like Paris, Moscow, and the Dominican Republic, said a Department Housing and Urban Development special agent.

Amanda Knox lands President Obama’s literary agent, Robert Barnett, to peddle her tell-all book 

Amanda Knox, 24, whose conviction for killing her roommate in Italy was overturned  reportedly signed a deal with a high-powered literary agent. The news comes just after Knox's ex-boyfriend also signed a book deal.

Knox signed her deal with Robert Barnett of Williams & Connolly, a D.C.-based firm, where Barnett is the agent of choice for folks like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, George W. Bush and Barbara Streisand.

David Marriott, of the Gogerty Marriott PR Firm, confirmed the deal to
Seattle Weekly just now, and sent over this brief statement from from the Knox family.

Music Teacher Censors Christmas Favorite

Michigan's Cherry Knoll Elementary School Under Fire For Removing 'Gay' From 'Deck The Halls'

A Michigan music teacher's decision to censor the word "gay" from a traditional Christmas carol is being met with a frosty response.

The teacher, who has not yet been named in any of the published reports, allegedly removed "gay" from "Deck The Halls" after 1st and 2nd grade students kept giggling during preparations for a Christmas concert at Cherry Knoll Elementary School in Traverse City. Instead of the traditional lyric, the students were taught to sing "don we now our bright apparel," according to UpNorthLive.com.
The school's Facebook page has since been inundated with reactions from infuriated parents and fellow educators. "By taking the word 'gay' out of 'Deck The Halls' you are making it a big deal, one word can have   different meanings," wrote one user. "Your personal opinions should not reflect what you teach other people's children. Please teach the children the classic song the way it was written." Another added: "Essentially, this teacher has now taught the elementary school children, including children as young as five, that gay means homosexual sex."

Dog rescues kitten roadside, Dog rescues kittens roadside, Dog sniffs gas leak, Dog dies owner fire- Dog rescues kittens left for dead on the roadside. A yellow lab named Reagan is now a hero after he saved two kittens left for dead. The kittens were in a sealed bag of Meow Mix after being dumped and run over by traffic. Reagan dragged the bag home and whined until his owner opened it. In a heroic story beyond reason, a yellow lab named Reagan made a discovery on an Iowa roadside that saved two precious lives.

Queen of England’s pay frozen until 2015, queen elizabeth ii lineage, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, queen elizabeth ii 59-year reign – Queen of England’s pay will stay frozen until 2015 due to economic downturn. In a measure to balance England’s budget, the queen, Britain’s second-longest-ruling monarch, will bring in the same amount of annual funding until 2015. While she won’t exactly be stocking up on Ramen noodles, the Queen of England will have a little less in her purse for the next few years.


Queen Elizabeth II faces a freeze on her income through at least 2015 thanks to funding cuts for the royal household resulting from a recently passed law. Her income has already dropped in real terms since 2009 as she has joined the millions of others affected by the economic downturn.

Mugger picks wrong guy to mess with

Mugger picks wrong guy to mess with, anthony miranda and residential burglary 2007, Ultimate Fighting Championship history,  We’ve seen our fair share of bizarre mugging/robbery stories over the past month, but none have taught a lesson quite like this.Chicago police say that a 24 year old convicted criminal, Anthony Miranda, asked a man in a parked car for a lighter…than proceeded to point a gun in the man’s face and ordered him out of the car.
At some point, Miranda’s attention was diverted and the victim was able to grab control of the gun and the two wrestled.