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Facebook Tries System Where People Pay $2 to Make Posts Appear Higher in Friends’ News Feeds Facebook is testing a ‘pay to be popular’ option to make help users get noticed by their friends. The social networking giant has begun offering some users a $2 feature called ‘Highlight’ to...

MAY 11--In what may be a record for narcotics recovered from a suspect’s rectum, Vermont cops last week arrested a New York City man who hid large quantities of crack cocaine, marijuana, and Oxycodone inside his body. Alex Boulet, 29, is facing felony drug charges stemming from a May 4...

Two private planes collided in mid-air and crashed northeast of Saskatoon Saturday, near St. Brieux, Saskatchewan. The reports, provided to CBC News Saturday afternoon, were not immediately confirmed by authorities but were from a first responder on the ground at the site where parts of the...

Nail them douchebags! :lol: NJ Town Tickets For Texting While Walking 20 People Hit By Cars In Fort Lee In 2012 FORT LEE, N.J. - Texting while driving is a crime in New Jersey, but what about texting while walking? Police in Fort Lee, Bergen County, say if you are caught texting while...

Chilling black and white pictures of 1920s crime scenes reveal the Big Apple's bloody history The New York City Police Department has opened its vaults and released some of the most bloodcurdling images of the 20th century: its catalog of killers and their victims. The 1,326 police...

Watch out, Mr Bond: Russian billionaire's £300m yacht 'lair' that comes with a mini version of itself more cool, evil stuff here: Read more: Russian billionaire's bond villain £300m yacht that comes with a mini version of itself | Mail Online

Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming 'About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves' The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all...

The History of Stockton: Chapter Nine Wells Fargo is taking steps toward repossessing Stockton's new City Hall, an eight-story high rise at 400 E. Main Street. City government never moved into the ($40.7m) building, which it bought in 2007…Fortunately, there are still some sources of...

News: Man saves daughter from traffic accident. Ultra News: Jumps from moving car to save her. Fark News: Goes back for her shoes (w/video)

TORONTO - Residents of a quiet Scarborough neighbourhood are stunned to learn that terrorist Omar Khadr may be moving into their picturesque, tree-lined street when he returns to Canada. A Khadr family relative said Omar’s mom, Maha Elsamnah, used to live in the Midland and Eglinton Aves...

Ontario is embroiled in a stormy wage negotiation with its 25,000-plus doctors as the government tries to freeze the $11 billion a year it spends on physicians. But lost in the back and forth is the complexity of the ways that doctors actually get paid, which explains why the province’s...

JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank, said Thursday it has lost $2 billion in a complex hedging strategy over the past six weeks and could lose more. In a conference call to analysts and investors, CEO Jamie Dimon said the 'flawed' hedging strategy was "poorly constructed, poorly...

Outstanding. Madeleine Morris survived Nazi-occupied France, and went on to happily marry a wonderfully trained musician. Then she went on a trip the country, where their car slammed into a ditch. Nine dropped AT&T calls later, they were both dead. This certainly puts your dubious AT&T...

Harper to blame for the economy PEI Premier Joe Ghiz, speaking in Charlottetown at CUPE's annual convention:"We…have to make sure that each and every Canadian gets to share in the wealth of our country. Today, in my opinion, Stephen Harper is hindering that view of Canada." Harper to...

Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama — mocking him as an “amateur” — that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims, “The country needs you!” the former president told Hillary Clinton, urging her...

Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO...

The biggest lawsuit in Microsoft’s history dominated the 90s, when the company battled accusations that it was stifling browser competition. Rival Netscape couldn't survive, but the Windows giant was ultimately forced to strip Internet Explorer from its operating system in a landmark ruling...

About 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday. Scores from the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card...

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE LIKE BARACK OBAMA? 20 QUESTIONS GAME - YouTube And a follow-up: Glenn Beck Asks: ‘Do You Know Anybody Like Obama?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Back in 1970 you couldn’t walk into a Woolworth’s, Eaton’s or a Ponderosa without hearing Anne Murray cheerily singing “spread your tiny wings and fly away” on the speakers. The song, “Snowbird,” was a worldwide hit. It made Anne Murray a star, and made P.E.I.’s Gene MacLellan a famous and...