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CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio man is thankful for the intervention of a Good Samaritan - the same one who helped him once before, eight years ago. Gerald Gronowski had a flat tire east of Cleveland recently when a man named Christopher Manacci stopped to help. During...

Ah yes...more smarmy collective speak via Dolton McSquinty. . TORONTO - Durham Region’s public school board has called in the language police. Sweeping new guidelines introduced to Durham District School Board teachers and staff this fall intend to police how teachers speak to their...

102-year-old woman drives 82-year-old car, has had a driver's license for 90 years, changes her own oil, and is a millionaire. And she's single Her car is 82. She

Don't panic, but 7 people have died since an untreatable "superbug" was released at an NIH lab in Maryland. Paging Captain Trips, Captain Trips to the white courtesy phone...

via LiveLeak (full screen recommended) Hyundai Motor Group commissioned the help from Korean media artist group JônPaSang to create an art piece for the 2012 Yeosu EXPO exhibition. What they created is an amazingly enormous hyper-matrix measuring 8 meters tall and 45 meters wide made up of...

*warning*... tasteless, sophomoric, ignorant and rude cartoon at the link: No One Murdered Because Of This Image | The Onion - America's Finest News Source WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted...

Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Yep, it's Half-Life 1 re-skinned into the Source engine which powered Half-Life 2. Black Mesa: Re-visit the world that started the Half-Life continuum

via sda The FBI agent who famously infiltrated the New York mob under the fake name "Donnie Brasco" is set to testify as a witness at Quebec's inquiry into construction industry corruption, according to a media report Wednesday. Radio-Canada said Joseph Pistone, who helped convict about 200...

I spoke with a well-placed journalist last night whose sources describe the situation at the State Department in one word: “Chaos.” The working assumption is that several American embassies may have been penetrated, or are vulnerable to attack, because so many of them rely on local...

How To Stop Facebook From Tracking You Most people don't realize that Facebook can continue to monitor their internet activity, even if they are no longer logged into the site. Using "Facebook Connect," and other social plug-ins, Facebook is able to set up a cookie on any site that has a...

The Forest Rangers opening credits 1960s - YouTube and good old 'Metis-Ojibway' Joe Two Rivers?

Jay Carney on Unrest in Middle East What a complete and utter tool this spastic is. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Friday insisted that the protests in the Middle East are not “directed at the United States” but are instead the direct result of an anti-Muslim YouTube clip...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A bomb-sniffing dog has detected the presence of some sort of explosives inside the vehicle of a man who walked into the Kansas City federal building and told authorities he was a terrorist. He is currently in police custody. LIVE COVERAGE | Bomb detected outside federal...

That's right. CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Department of Aviation is looking for a few good goats. WFLD-TV (Wanted: 1 goat herder, 30 goats at O ) reports that Chicago recently put out a bid for someone to supply goats to trim the grass at O'Hare International Airport. The bid also calls for...

A child is believed to have been given bottled "bleach" by a woman in a McDonalds in south-east London. Police said a white woman in her 50s gave a child in a pushchair a bottle believed to contain bleach in the restaurant in Eltham High Street. The 11-month-old boy vomited...

Israel media - Channel 2 - just reported that the US-commanded Multi-National Force Observors headquarters in the Sinai is under assault. Salafists laid seige to the building this afternoon and some 50 armed men stormed it. There is fighting going on in the building and there are dead...

Government spending was a central issue in the 2010 elections, and it has remained an important concern in this election cycle, especially for independent voters. Using data from the Office of Management and Budget, this chart shows the amount of real federal dollars spent per capita over...

Peter Lougheed was Mr. Alberta. Nobody was more successful as a politician, more tenacious in defence of the province or more visionary in industrializing and managing Alberta’s resources and potential. Canny, determined and cosmopolitan, he modernized an insular province and made it a...

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A couple says a literally shocking discovery is forcing them from their multimillion dollar home in Westchester County. CBS 2′s Lou Young watched Monday as Millie Mendelson packed her bags in preparation for abandoning her home. She and her husband, Harold...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says shielding the economy from a global broadside is his top priority even if it means balancing the books later rather than sooner. In an exclusive interview Thursday with Brian Lilley, host of Byline on Sun News Network, Harper said he's surprised...