A history of Halloween, Devil's Night

October 31 is Halloween, or All Hallows Eve - it's a night for fun, mischief, pranks, ghouls and goblins. It's when people dress up, in most often ridiculous costumes, go out, treat their way to something yummy,...

Vancouver Olympic clock vandalized...again

Several hoodlums have expressed their politics on the Vancouver Olympic clock--either that or they were hard pressed for a canvas. The clock was once again defaced with paint last night, this time by three...

Karadzic's War Crime Victims Relive their Ordeal

OBSERVER reporter Ed Vulliamy exposed the Bosnian concentration camps.  In the wake of Radovan Karadzic's arrest this week, Muslim figurehead Fikret Alic, whose image was imprinted on the world's media...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Judge Orders Teens To Apologize For YouTube Prank; Victim Not Satisfied

"''Fire in the hole.'' YouTube pranksters caught after posting video and charged with two counts of battery and one count of criminal mischief."

Baby put up for sale on Craigslist: Canada police

Seems there is a run on baby's for sale"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A couple has been arrested in what Canadian police said on Tuesday was an apparent offer to sell a seven-day-old baby girl on Craigslist for C$10,000 ($10,100). A woman who saw the offer on the...

Fans riot, vandalize downtown Montreal

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell Europe have their Soccer Hooligans, Montreal has their Hab (Montreal Canadiens) Hockey Hooligans.Watching the news last night, it looked more like a War Zone...

Ex-bank was HQ for burglars

"Ex-bank was HQ for burglars By ANDREW WELLNER awellner@adn.com Published: September 20, 2007 Last Modified: September 20, 2007 at 05:05 PM WASILLA - When she came to work July 30 at Arctic Beauty Supply on the...

Egg-toss prank turns deadly in Ohio

"COLUMBUS, Ohio - It was the sort of commonplace misbehavior that raises blood pressure across the nation's roads: kids, out after midnight, egging cars along a busy thoroughfare. This time, though, the mischief turned deadly. The driver of a targeted gray Jeep barreled...

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