Cheerleaders and band majorettes in Texas could soon be barred from performing bump-and-grind routines in an effort to make Friday-night football games more "family friendly," according to a Bill working its way through the state legislature. Representative Al Edwards proposed last week to bar "sexually oriented" performances.
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/ 8 February 2005
A four-year-old boy borrowed his mother’s car overnight to go rent a video game, police in Sandlake, Michigan, said on Monday. At about 1.30am local time on Friday, a patrol officer reported seeing a car with its lights off moving at a snail’s pace, zigzagging between two lanes on a highway, said police chief Doug Heugel.
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/ 15 December 2004
Two friends are at a party when one sees a potential love interest. The other friend swoops into action, making an introduction and helping to keep the conversation going — all so the buddy can score a phone number. But now, those who ride shotgun for the sake of love have a name. They are dating’s "wingmen" and "wingwomen".
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/ 7 December 2004
Even when he’s asleep, Scott Kearnan is hooked into the internet. He just turns down the volume on his computer, so he’s not awakened by the ”brrring” of a late-night instant message. ”It’s become something for me that’s almost like a telephone. I may not use it, but it could ring anytime,” says the 22-year-old, who works for a search-engine marketing company. ”If I don’t have it, I feel cut off.”
The executive in charge of circulation for the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> has resigned, two weeks after the paper’s parent company announced it had inflated its circulation figures for several years. Another Chicago-based newspaper company also announced two weeks ago that it overstated circulation numbers.
A US judge has named 24 groups to divide a -million settlement from McDonald’s over beef-laced french fries, resolving a dispute over which organisations would share in the awards.
All the mammals of Madagascar are descended from four ancestral species that must have sailed there clinging to rafts of plant material, scientists believe.
Authorities have released a tape of emergency calls made during last month’s deadly Chicago club stampede, a haunting compilation with screaming clubgoers begging for their lives and several complaining of locked doors.
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/ 26 February 2003
President George W. Bush said he would order the assassination of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if US forces had ”a clear shot,” a suburban Chicago newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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/ 14 January 2003
Two days after his stunning decision to clear Illinois’s death row, Governor Ryan left his office on Monday having ignited a firestorm of controversy over the commutations, but having garnered the admiration of death penalty foes around the world.
Mohammed Lat will pray for the victims of the September 11 terror attacks during his daily visit to the mosque Wednesday — but he will also offer up a little prayer for himself and the way things were.
Birds flap their wings and other animals fly like gliders — but only snakes swim through the air, a biologist has found.