Can't Possibly Be True Wednesday, February 19

"This [was] my life," said musician Boujemaa Razgui in December, referring to 13 handmade flutes he played professionally, "and now they're gone." Arriving in New York City from Madrid 
with the 13 woodwinds in his checked luggage, he was shocked …

NEVER GETS OLD 7 hours ago

In February, Dayton, Ohio, bus driver Rickey Wagoner, 49, survived a three-bullet shooting that police said was probably a gang initiation randomly targeting him as he worked on his bus' engine. A police sergeant told the Dayton Daily News Wagoner …

Unclear on the Concept Wednesday, February 19

Oregon inmate Sirgiorgio Clardy, 26, filed a handwritten $100 million lawsuit in January against Nike for inadequately marketing its Air Jordans. Clardy, a convicted pimp, earned an 
"enhanced" penalty for using a "dangerous weapon" to maim a …

TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE 7 hours ago

The most recent "monument" offered by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is its proposed 10-foot tombstone along U.S. 129 in Gainesville, Ga., to honor the "several" chickens killed when a truck overturned in January. No humans were hurt in …

Saved by the Blimps Wednesday, February 19

Americans who've grown used to hearing our 
nation is militarily without peer may have been 
shocked to learn in January (as CBS News reported in a Pentagon interview) that America has "practically zero capability" either to detect enemy cruise …

BARKING UNDER OATH 7 hours ago

Allowing dogs as "witnesses" in court cases in France has become "something of a recent trend," reported European news site The Local Paris edition in April. Tango, a 9-year-old Labrador retriever, took the witness stand in Tours so the judge could …

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Wednesday, February 19

Ed Forchion sits in a Burlington County, N.J., jail (where he'll stay for a few more months), serving a term for marijuana possession. For 10 days each month until his release, though, the same judge who sentenced him promised to let him go smoke …

ZERO TOLERANCE 7 hours ago

Another questionable school suspension was decreed in March in Virginia Beach, when a sixth-grader who'd prevented a classmate from intentionally harming himself was punished for her altruism. Adrionna Harris had convinced a boy to hand over a razor …

It's a Dog's Life Wednesday, February 19

A Georgia Regents University's dental school official acknowledged in December that the school would likely continue to conduct research on the mouths of stray dogs solely to test a coating that might inhibit infections in humans' dental implants. …

CHILD BRIDE 7 hours ago

Ms. Fatima Mangre, 8, was granted a divorce from her husband, Arjun Bakridi, 14, in Uttar Pradesh state in November, becoming the youngest divorcee in India's recorded history. Bakridi, then age 10, had married Mangre, then age 4, but his father …