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How do you mend a broken heart? Well, if you ask Eric Smith of Philadelphia, he'd tell you with a Master Chief armor costume from the video game Halo. Heartbroken after his girlfriend left him, Smith wanted nothing to do with the $2,000 canary-yellow diamond engagement ring he'd purchased for her. Eric SmithSmith, who runs the website Geekadelphia, enlisted the help of an artist on the handmade e-commerce site Etsy to create the 40-pound costume made of steel and fiberglass. Smith says he initially was unable to sell the ring in-person to anyone, so he looked to eBay. Smith said the "funds in his PayPal account warmed [his] heart for the most part, but lurked there reminding [him] of what he lost." So he "had to get rid of it." Smith says he'd always wanted the Halo Master Chief armor costume, but the cost of tuition and an engagement ring meant he could not afford it. He insists that the costume was not an

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A high school government and law teacher in Eureka, Illinois, is coming under fire for showing his students three segments of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." Rhett Felix, a first-year teacher at Eureka High School, reportedly showed segments that made fun of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and allegations of his sexual harassment. The segments, from the October 31 and November 2 episodes, feature Stewart making multiple sexual euphemisms about Cain's pizza chain. Cain served as the chairman and CEO of Godfather Pizza from 1986 to 1996. When parents were made aware of what their kids had seen in the classroom, they started complaining about bleeped obscenities and sexual content being shown in the classroom as well as the teacher's perceived liberal bias. Monday night, the Eureka-based District 140 school board held a two-hour executive session to discuss the complaints against

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There are legitimate reasons to call 9-1-1 because they warrant a need for emergency help such as fires, robberies, and car accidents. But your iPhone not Michael Skopecworking to your liking is not one of them, and it certainly does not warrant five calls to the police. However, that's exactly what Michael Alan Skopec allegedly did to the Kendall County, Illinois, Police Department last week. All five calls to the dispatcher were recorded and released publicly. In the first call, you can hear Skopec slurring his speech as he asks the dispatcher why his phone is not working and says he knows it has something to do with Apple. The dispatcher calmly asks him if he has an emergency requiring an ambulance or some type of assistance, and he replies no. She then directs him to call the manufacturer of the iPhone. In Skopec's second 9-1-1 call, he uses NSFW expletives to describe his frustration with his phone not