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Medical Mystery: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep |
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
 Rhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it's not just the routine growing pains of a toddler's life that has affected him. It's the fact that Rhett can't sleep.
"We went to the doctor after he was born, and I kept telling him something was wrong. He didn't sleep. They thought I was being kind of an anxious mom, and we went back and forth," Rhett's mother, Shannon Lamb, said. "Finally, they [were] starting to realize now that he really doesn't sleep at all. But we've had a lot of different diagnoses and nobody really knows." |
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Norfolk teens banned from buying eggs and ketchup |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
Youths in the Norfolk town of Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, England, have been banned from purchasing "squirty bottles" of ketchup, and eggs after a number of complaints from residents in the area. The move, which is backed by the Norfolk Police, is aimed at reducing the number of anti-social incidents occurring in the area. Sergeant Andy Brown, of the Norfolk Police, has said that no further complaints have been received since the ban came into force.
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Man falls down elevator shaft; woman breaks his fall |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
Police reported on Monday, that a man in Frankfurt, Germany is recovering after he fell 25 feet down an elevator shaft early Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. CEST, and survived. According to authorities, the only reason why the man is alive is because he landed on top of a woman who had fallen down the same shaft just one day earlier.
27-year-old Jens Wilhelms, who was not injured in the fall, was walking up a dark stairwell, passing by the elevator shaft which was undergoing repairs. When he peeked inside the open doors to see what was going on, he slipped off the edge. |
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Company Sells Greeting Cards for Inmates |
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Finding it hard to express just the right sentiment to your loved one in prison? A Los Angeles company may have the answer. Attorney Terrye L. Cheathem noticed a market Hallmark wasn't serving and founded Three Squares Greetings, which provides cards for inmates. |
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Texas police: 2-year old crushed by relative |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
According to police investigating the death of a 2-year old boy in Hidalgo County, Texas, the boy's death may have been caused by a morbidly obese relative who fell on him, fracturing his skull.
"It didn't look like there was any foul play," according to Justice of the Peace Bobby Conteras. The boy was pronounced dead on Tuesday. |
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Vietnam bans pet hamsters |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
Fearing that their growing population might spread disease and destroy crops, Vietnam has banned the sale and possession of hamsters, which have launched somewhat of a subculture among the country's youth.
Starting Monday, the fine for trading or owning a hamster will reach up to 30 million dong (1,875 US dollars), the Ministry of Agriculture said. They express concern that hamsters have been imported illegally from China, Thailand, or Taiwan, and are left unlicensed and unchecked for diseases. |
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Complaint: Anger Class Student Hit Woman |
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man on his way to anger management class became angry and struck a woman, authorities said. |
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Norwegian museum claims Adolf Hitler drew Disney cartoons on painting |
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
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A war museum located in Norway has stated that Adolf Hitler has drawn characters from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and were found hidden inside a painting signed "A. Hitler". |
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Flirty Women Victimize Well-Dressed Men |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
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DALLAS (AP) — Well-dressed men at posh Dallas hotels and bars are being targeted by a ring of flirtatious women who may be drugging them before swiping their watches and other expensive items, police said. |
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NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
On February 4, NASA will digitally transmit the Beatles song Across the Universe in the direction of the star Polaris, commonly known as the North Star.
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US dollar no longer accepted at Taj Mahal and other Indian historical sites |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
Due to the declining value of the United States dollar, tourism officials in India have decided to no longer accept the American currency at the site of the Taj Mahal and 120 other Indian historical sites.
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I Help You and Then You Steal My Car? |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
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Longtime friends Chase Torgerson and Cody Charpentier were driving along a northwestern Minnesota highway near Wilton when they saw a car fly through the air and crash into a median. |
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That's Not a Religious Web Site Sonny |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
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A civilian State Police employee was accused of sneaking into a church to look at pornography on a nun's computer. Police arrested Thomas G. Findler Wednesday and charged him with burglary and theft. |
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Party involving 500 youths in Australia causes A$20,000 in damages |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
A raucous party thrown at a suburban home in Melbourne, Australia which terrorized the neighbourhood during the night of 12-13 January may cost a Narre Warren youth, aged 16, A$20,000 in liabilities for police time and resources, including attacks upon police cars that resulted in smashed windshields.
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