When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26 (2012) to open up the Rent-A-Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, he encountered a man on the ground with his...
Archive - July 14, 2016
(1) Australian lawyer William Ray was killed on May 22 when he was thrown from his all-terrain “quad bike” in rural Victoria state and pinned...
Recidivist Jesse Johnson, 20, was charged again in June (for suspicion of disturbing the peace) after he had crawled underneath a woman’s car at an Aldi...
A Woman at the Top of Her Game: In Nashville, Tennessee, in June, sex worker Jonisia Morris, 25, was charged with robbing her client by (according to the...
Brigham Young University professor Jason Hansen apologized in May after coaxing a student (for extra credit) to drink a small vial of his urine in class. The...
— Quixotic Malaysian designer Moto Guo made a splash at Milan’s fashion week in June when he sent model after model to the runway with facial...
A team of researchers is following about 30 tabbies, calicos, and others, recording their moves and sounds, to somehow learn whether housecats have dialects in...
(1) Insurance agent John Wright filed a lawsuit in Will County, Illinois, in June over teenagers playing “ding dong ditch,” in which kids ring a...
— (1) In June, District Attorney Jerry Jones in Monroe, Louisiana, dropped drug and gun charges against college football players Cam Robinson and Hootie...
A leading Chinese orthopedic surgeon continues to believe that “full-body” transplants are the next big thing in medicine, despite worldwide...
More and more churches (“hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee”...
By James Hufnagel As the sultry summer weather settles in, investigations into alleged corrupt activities of the Cuomo administration are also heating up...
By Mike Hudson Remaking a classic American movie can be a dangerous business. Even when you’ve got everything going for it. Just ask Leo DiCaprio and everyone...
Dog Beater Gets His Day Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Flaherty announced last week that 54-year-old Santiago Morales of 53 Arkansas St...
By W. Dalton Weir After years of debate and an avalanche of scientific data, most Americans today will tell you they’re concerned about climate change, and...
By Jim Ostrowski We live in perilous times. We do not know what is going to happen on any given day. I am pretty good at predicting the future. After all...
By Mike Hudson Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” project, now under investigation by both the U.S. Justice Department and state Attorney General Eric...
Keith Capodicasa, 43, of Orchard Park, has pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia to Insurance Fraud in the Fifth Degree for...
By Tony Farina Every once in a while in life, we find a perfect match. It may be a golf club, a pet, a career, or a partner. There is something that tells us...
BITCH PLANET, VOLUME 1: EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE By Kelly Sue DeConnick (Author) and Valentine De Landro (Illustrator) Image Comics (Publisher) Review by Carolyn...
By Tony Farina Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to Niagara Falls on Tuesday to officially break ground on the long-awaited Hamister hotel project in downtown...
By Tony Farina Financial Filings Due Friday The political season is getting into full swing locally, and Friday (July 15) is the first financial filing...
By Frank Parlato As everyone knows, there is often a difference between “the law” and justice. After all laws are made by elected officials under...