In 2012 the West Nile Virus has infected multiple people in 38 states. With 1118 infected and 41 dead this doesn't sound like something you'd want to get.
2 people died last year after cleaning their sinuses with tap water. Their tap water was tested positive for Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba found in freshwater lakes. Here's the link:
I will be adding 3 points extras credit to students who are in the top ten and 2 points extra credit if you are 11-20. It is based on weekly stats, not daily which is what you see on the right side of the page. Here is a link to the weekly stats:
A mail carrier in New Jersey took a week of vacation. Vacation means they stopped delivering mail. But something happened. The mail stopped being delivered too. Apparently this post office couldn't find a certain key to some apartment buildings, nor
A 120 year old fresco, a painting of Jesus Christ with a thorn crown called "Behold the Man" on a wall of the Sanctuary of Mercy at Borja, near Zaragoza, Spain, has been "restored." An elderly partition tried her hand at restoring, and it didn't go t
A man was going through some old boxes in his attic, when he came across an audio reel that said "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960." What he found was his father interviewing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here's the link:
A Navy Seal who participated in the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden has chosen to use the pen name Mark Owen for his book titled No Easy Day. According to the publisher the book gives, "blow-by blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the
Tropical Storm Isaac has a possibility of being a category 1 hurricane and right now is heading toward Tampa, Florida where the Republican Convention is being held. It might have a chance at canceling the Republican Convention. So hopefully the Tropi
Legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and is banned from the Olympics after he failed to meet the deadline for challenging the USADA's doping investigation. He will be deemed disqualified from every ev
when a detivitive arested a crimenal in honollou arested a crimenal for alededly robbing four banks the criminal responded by saying that she only robbed three not four.
On August 23, 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with each other. In this pact, the two sides agreed not to attack each other for ten years. By signing this pact, it allowed Germany to invade Poland without fear of t
Tropical Storm Isaac has a possibility of being a category 1 hurricane and right now is heading toward Tampa, Florida where the Republican Convention is being held. It might have a chance at canceling the Republican Convention. So hopefully the Tropi
Today someone robbed a Shelby bank then fled to a house somewhere outside Avoca, four hours later, after a standoff, he was found. He hanged himself. I found out by some people I know, not exactly sure if it's true, that he was a cafe owner in Avoca.
Taylor Swift and her boyfriend crashed a wedding. Apparently the boyfriend was invited, but he never gave an RSVP. But he asked an hour before the wedding if he could come, and if he could bring his girlfriend. He was kindly told NOT TO COME, but he
This man went to a Best Western and threw coffee in the front desk clerk's face before robbing them. Number one, why hot coffee? It isn't the worse, but it still could burn the person, depending on how hot. The police have searched for the guy, but t
The long distance swimmer Diana Nyad turns 63 today! She is most famous for trying to swim from Cuba to Florida with out a shark cage. During her latest attempt she was pulled from the water because of a storm that was swiftly approaching and because
Some people do the weirdest things. A lab tech at Georgia Health Sciences University was caught in a locker room with his pants down, intoxicated, and partying with test monkeys. He was taken to jail, and the monkeys were tested to see if there was a
Christopher Columbus had an idea to sail west and reach india. He had no money for he expedition. The king of spain gave him money. He set sail on 1492. On the 12th of october he reached land with strange trees and and men and women with different co
Neil Armstrong, part of the Apollo 11 crew from 1969 and the first person to walk on the moon has passed away at 82. His famous line was: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." This was a momentous event in history, e