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  • Teens ignore laws against texting while driving

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 12:24 pm ET  
    A driver sends a text message while stopped at an intersection... Reuters

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Karen Cordova, a 17-year-old high school student and part-time supermarket cashier, admits she sometimes texts friends while driving home from work late at night, lonely and bored. Full Story »

  • Woman allegedly pours grits on sleeping boyfriend

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 8:19 pm ET  

    BOUTTE, La. - A 44-year-old woman was booked with second-degree battery after allegedly pouring a pot of boiling grits onto her sleeping boyfriend. St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies said Carolyn Brown caused second-degree burns on the man's face and arms. The man told deputies that he came home from work on Nov. 7, got into an argument with Brown, told her that he was breaking up with her, then went to bed. Full Story »

  • Rotating house puts family in a spin

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 12:25 pm ET  
    An octagonal, three-bedroom, family home built on a rotating... Reuters

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian family is turning heads with a rotating house that can guarantee a different view every time they wake up. Full Story »

  • Fla. woman accused of hitting man with raw steak

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 8:19 pm ET  
    This Dec. 7, 2009 picture made available by the Marion County... AP

    DUNNELLON, Fla. - A 53-year-old was arrested after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll. Full Story »

  • Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 3:53 pm ET  

    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game because warming is reducing their hunting season, an Inuit leader said on Friday. Full Story »

  • Sheriff: Bailiff unknowingly sold stolen wreaths

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 8:19 pm ET  

    MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Hillsborough County sheriff said a court bailiff sold stolen Christmas wreaths in the lobby of the Superior Court in Manchester. Sheriff James Hardy said the bailiff sold the wreaths after being asked to do so by an elderly woman who told the bailiff she had made them. Full Story »