NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child, authorities said Thursday. Donna Greenwell, 53, a long-haul trucker with an arrest record …
Read More »Study: Low-Carb Diet May Improve Focus, Blur Memory
Low-carb diets may make people’s short-term memory a little foggy, but they could improve people’s ability to focus and pay attention, new research hints. The key to keeping one’s smarts while dieting seems to be not to cut out carbs completely, Dr. Holly A. Taylor of Tufts University in Medford, …
Read More »Army Cuts Retirement Pay for Alaskan WWII Militia
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Army has decided to cut off retirement pay for veterans of a largely Native militia formed to guard the territory of Alaska from the threat of Japanese attack during World War II. The change means 26 surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard — most in …
Read More »Patrick Swayze Released From Hospital, Resting at Home
LOS ANGELES – Actor Patrick Swayze has been released from a hospital, one week after checking himself in with pneumonia. Publicist Annett Wolf says Swayze left the hospital and is resting at home. She would not comment further on his condition. The news was first reported in a statement Wolf …
Read More »Doctor Fails to ID Badly Beaten Man as Her Father
HONOLULU – A doctor working in the intensive care unit of a Honolulu hospital failed to recognize her own father as she helped treat him for what proved to be a mortal head injury. Dr. Shirley Domingo said Friday she was shocked to learn the identify of the 54-year-old beaten …
Read More »Florida Firefighter Charged With Stealing Severed Foot
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Authorities said the St. Lucie County firefighter who took a man’s severed foot from an Interstate 95 crash scene last year has been charged with misdemeanor theft. The firefighter told the Florida Highway Patrol after the Sept. 19 crash that she took the remains to …
Read More »Facebook 'Jews' Group Suddenly Praises Hitler
Some unsuspecting Facebook users may have fallen prey to a shocking prank. A group on the social-networking site calling itself “I Heart Jews” garnered more than 2,000 members — until the group’s name was suddenly changed to “Hitler: Great Modern Man of History,” New York’s WNYW-TV reports. “It’s disgusting. It’s …
Read More »Hair-Raisingly Expensive: Celebrity Stylist Charges $950 for Cut
This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” March 19, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: All right. Tough times, you wouldn’t know, though. What recession? My next guest has America’s most expensive haircut. Are you …
Read More »Study Finds Measles May Prevent Allergies in Kids
Children who’ve been infected with measles are less likely to develop allergies, a large study in Europe has demonstrated. The occurrence of allergic disorders has increased during past decades, coinciding with reduced rates of many childhood infections and increasing use of vaccinations, Helen Rosenlund, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, …
Read More »Discover Your Type- It Really Exists!
What’s your type? Talk, dark and handsome? Short, bald and chubby? Muscular, unavailable and angry? How about Explorer, Builder, Negotiator or Director? These are the four personality types that anthropologist Helen Fisher coined during her research into why we fall in love with certain people but not others. According to …
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