Maytag Recall: Refrigerators With An Electrical Failure

Maytag has expanded an ongoing Maytag recall to include 46,000 more refrigerators from the Maytag®, Magic Chef®, Performa by Maytag® and Crosley® brands. Maytag announced the latest Maytag recall because of a fire hazard that may result from an electrical failure...

Woman Accused of Taping Dog to Fridge

The disagreement between Abby Toll and her boyfriend Brian Beck was more than a cat fight.  She is accused of abusing the young man's dog by taping it onto their fridge.  Apparently she wanted the dog...

Are We Killing Ourselves With Water?

It's funny how the mind works. I've always thought that I prefer bottled water to tap water, and prefer the water that pours from the door of my refrigerator to bottled water. An interesting and somewhat disturbing...

Chilling Facts: Supermarket Refrigeration and Climate Change

With all the environmental concerns out there, it can be tricky to keep up with everything, let alone take all the information into consideration all the time. One more environmental culprit we can add to the...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Playstation 3 Consumes More Power Than A Fridge

It's all well and good to swap out your old incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescent ones, but if you're still glued to your PS3 for multiple hours a day, then you're nowhere close to being energy...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

Couple find nearly $12K in 'cold cash'

"JANESVILLE, Wis. - A Janesville couple are hoping they will be allowed to keep the nearly $12,000 in cash they found in their refrigerator when they moved into an apartment. "It would be a very big help," said Colleen Mesler, 65. "We've been waiting and waiting, and...

Woman tosses boyfriends salad, Police arrest

A Crestview man called 911 after his live-in girlfriend threw a bowl of salad at his face. The man, 38, had been eating the salad on June 5 when his 32-year-old girlfriend picked the plastic bowl up and struck him in the face with it, according to a Sheriff’s Office...

Shot duck survives 2 days in refrigerator

Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its head, giving her a scare. The man’s wife “was going to check on the refrigerator because it hadn’t been...

"Sorry, sweetie. I'll make sure the next duck you see in the fridge is dead".

If you're going to be a big tough huntin' kind of guy, at least kill the one-pound defenseless duck when you shoot it. I think that hunting in our modern society is cruel and unnecessary, but from my limited knowledge of hunting (being that I'm a sissy liberal), you're...

Tiny spy walking in your shoes

"RFID (aka Radio Frequency Identification) is a method of automatic identification, based on a silicon computer chip and an antenna, which are built in the so-called RFID tag. A remote reader can scan it and send information to a database."

9 Calif. farms the focus in E. coli probe

"Health authorities hunting the source of a nationwide E. coli outbreak are focusing on nine California farms after discovering what could be a crucial clue: an opened bag of spinach left in the refrigerator of someone sickened by the bacteria. The bag of tainted Dole baby...

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