THE NEW NORMAL Today

Since high-rise residents value their privacy, Lisa Pleiss of Seattle said she was frightened on June 22 when she saw a drone hovering outside her 26th-floor window: "You don't expect to be walking around indecent in your apartment and then have …

SELFIES AREN'T JUST FOR DUMBASSES Today

In June, as Elizabeth Neufeld, 85, backed her car out of her driveway in Bel Air, California, it tipped on a curve and rolled onto its side. Elizabeth wasn't hurt, but was trapped inside while her husband, Benjamin, 87, got out on his own. As they …

FAILED TO KEEP A LOW PROFILE Today

Jacob Close, 25, wanted after jumping bail in New York on a drug charge, but recently on Bloomsburg (Pennsylvania) University police's radar screen after it was rumored he was in the area, was arrested by campus cops in June. Close's name and …

DOGGONE SAFETY NUTS Today

By now, many in the United Kingdom have such exaggerated concern for "health and safety" they're sensitive to even the tiniest, most far-fetched risks. In June, dog show organizers in Keswick made a list of 25 tests for dogs to perform in …

TRAVELLIN' ROSE Today

District of Columbia government services have improved markedly since the 1990s when NOTW reported frequent misadventures as the "District of Calamity." Still, things happen. Rose Preston called 911 on March 15, fearing a stroke because of a …

READER'S CHOICE Today

Bill Hillmann, 32, expert on Spain's bull-running events and author of a chapter in "How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona" (its most famous festival), was hospitalized in July after being gored during the run. The horn passed through one thigh, …

BIG SNAPPER Today

In June, an unnamed American exchange student visiting Germany's Tubingen University, exploring a large marble sculpture outside the school's institute for microbiology and virology, was trapped inside and had to be rescued by firefighters. The …

ZACK BURNETT Today

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A War on the Poor Today

Los Angeles duo El Ten Eleven creates a holy racket of instrumental, 
electro-leaning rock brilliance

THE PLAN THAT NEVER WAS Today

Open enrollment is dead. What's next for parents in struggling Duval County schools?