Google street view vehicle takes picture just as teenager was getting mugged. Pics help in busting the perps. Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google’s online photo map service, police said. Suspect in artifact trafficking […]

Obama may have given the Queen a real lifesaver with that goofy gift of an iPod. An Essex teenager who was hit by lightning in a storm says that her life was saved by her iPod – and the fact that she was holding her boyfriend’s hand at the time. Sophie Frost and Mason Billington, […]

Woman has two year old kid tumble out of car as she’s driving down the road and she didn’t even notice. A Merritt Island mother was arrested Wednesday after her 2-year-old fell out of her car as she was driving — and didn’t know it, deputies said. Laway K. Meharie faces charges of felony child […]

58 year old substitute teacher facing charges after fight with 11 year old kid during dodgeball game. A substitute gym teacher turned into a schoolyard bully after he got into a fight with an 11-year-old Westchester student over a dodgeball game, called him a “crybaby,” and put him in a chokehold, New Rochelle police said. […]

Woman tells husband they’re having a boy after taking baby gender test. Joins others suing company because she wound up having daughter and is now divorced. Lame. Congratulations — it’s a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a “99.9-percent accurate” baby-gender test, claiming the […]

Blogger making big bucks off his BuckyBalls. A Brooklyn blogger is toying with everyone from MIT eggheads to business executives — and raking in thousands doing it. Jake Bronstein, 30, is the brains behind BuckyBalls, a new toy that consists of a jar of 21, tiny, magnetic balls that link into geometric shapes. L.A. Lakers […]

Happy Flag Day America! n June 14th, 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand, a 19 year old teacher at Stony Hill School, placed a 10 inch, 38- star flag in a bottle on his desk then assigned essays on the flag and its significance. This observance, commemorated Congresses adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the flag […]

Microsoft soon to offer free anti virus software. Virus writers everywhere explode in laughter. Microsoft is poised to start giving away security software. The company is reportedly trialling free anti-virus software internally and said the beta version would be released “soon”. Called Morro, the software will tackle viruses but lack the broader range of utilities, […]

Out of work? Face need a little botox? The two come together here. Colleen Delsack is a 47-year-old single mother who can’t seem to find a steady job, and she worries that her age may have something to do with it. So she joined dozens other unemployed workers Friday to take advantage of free Botox […]

Woman arrested for leaving dog in hot car told by judge she can never own an animal in the county again. A Tampa woman charged with leaving a puppy in a locked, hot car while she was shopping faced a judge today, and was told she can never own an animal again in Hillsborough County. […]