A judge in McKinney, Texas, released a man who spent 83 days in jail for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty. The courthouse in McKinney is now swamped with calls from potential jurors wanting to know if this was a fluke or an option.
A man in Kenya sued a women's activist group, claiming a sex boycott it organized in protest of the country’s political situation affected his marriage and caused him stress. This came as a shock to millions of other married Kenyan men who didn’t realize it was because of the political situation.
Florence Henderson, Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” says she’s swamped with Mother's Day cards every year. Her favorites were from Maureen McCormick, her TV daughter Marcia, because those had a street value in the thousands.
President Barack Obama’s standup routine was the hit of the annual White House Correspondent's Association dinner. He had so many good lines, CSPAN has asked him to tape a daily one-hour spot to run against Jay Leno’s new show.
Actor Keanu Reeves has been signed to star in a remake of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” To take advantage of Keanu’s acting range, the new version will be called “Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Jekyll.”
The Little Caesars pizza chain celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. There are about 2,500 Little Caesars pizza outlets across five continents and in every U.S. state, including a number of urban restaurants called Lil Caesars.
Outbreaks of the swine flu are affecting college graduation ceremonies in the U.S., causing some schools to consider banning the traditional handshake. This isn’t a problem at community colleges, where diplomas are given with chest thumps and head butts.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a surprise one-day visit to Baghdad to discuss U.S.-Iraqi economic relations with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Pelosi assured al-Maliki that she would help protect his country from an invasion by U.S. banks.
Vice President Joe Biden gave the commencement address to the graduating class at Syracuse University, where he’s an alumnus. To show the graduates how to succeed in politics, Biden took the honorary degree he was given and stuffed it in his mouth.
A genealogy web site has posted Albert Einstein’s telephone number while he was a university professor in Berlin. No one ever called him because A judge in McKinney, Texas, released a man who spent 83 days in jail for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty. The courthouse in McKinney is now swamped with calls from potential jurors wanting to know if this was a fluke or an option.
A man in Kenya sued a women's activist group, claiming a sex boycott it organized in protest of the country’s political situation affected his marriage and caused him stress. This came as a shock to millions of other married Kenyan men who didn’t realize it was because of the political situation.
Florence Henderson, Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” says she’s swamped with Mother's Day cards every year. Her favorites were from Maureen McCormick, her TV daughter Marcia, because those had a street value in the thousands.
President Barack Obama’s standup routine was the hit of the annual White House Correspondent's Association dinner. He had so many good lines, CSPAN has asked him to tape a daily one-hour spot to run against Jay Leno’s new show.
Actor Keanu Reeves has been signed to star in a remake of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” To take advantage of Keanu’s acting range, the new version will be called “Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Jekyll.”
The Little Caesars pizza chain celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. There are about 2,500 Little Caesars pizza outlets across five continents and in every U.S. state, including a number of urban restaurants called Lil Caesars.
Outbreaks of the swine flu are affecting college graduation ceremonies in the U.S., causing some schools to consider banning the traditional handshake. This isn’t a problem at community colleges, where diplomas are given with chest thumps and head butts.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a surprise one-day visit to Baghdad to discuss U.S.-Iraqi economic relations with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Pelosi assured al-Maliki that she would help protect his country from an invasion by U.S. banks.
Vice President Joe Biden gave the commencement address to the graduating class at Syracuse University, where he’s an alumnus. To show the graduates how to succeed in politics, Biden took the honorary degree he was given and stuffed it in his mouth.
A genealogy web site has posted Albert Einstein’s telephone number while he was a university professor in Berlin. No one ever called him because he had the only number that contained pi.
A new survey found that about one in 10 Americans have stopped hugging and kissing close friends or relatives because of concerns about swine flu. That number spiked on Mother’s Day when kids across the country used it as an excuse to avoid kissing Grandma.
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A new survey found that about one in 10 Americans have stopped hugging and kissing close friends or relatives because of concerns about swine flu. That number spiked on Mother’s Day when kids across the country used it as an excuse to avoid kissing Grandma.
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