Giant Squid Washes Up on Australian Beach
A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday. “It is a whopper,” said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist who studies invertebrates at the Tasmanian Museum. Giant squid live in waters off southern Australia and New Zealand _ where a half-ton colossus, believed to be [...]
Stealing Another Man’s Wife Costs $4,802
Stealing someone’s heart can cost you: Just ask German Blinov.A Cook County jury ordered Blinov to shell out $4,802 last week after he was sued by a husband from a Chicago suburb for stealing the affections of the man’s wife. Arthur Friedman used a little-known state law to mount the legal attack against Blinov. The [...]
5 Die in Dairy Farm Manure Pit
Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of five people, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18 inches of liquefied cow manure may never be known, authorities said. No autopsies were planned, in part because investigators believed the deaths on a Rockingham County dairy farm were accidental, said Capt. J.B. [...]
Couples Rush to Marry on Lucky Day
(Scott Celestino and his fiance Svetlana Vaysman pose with the license plate he got after their engagement.) Donel Hardy and John Allison figure they must be a very lucky couple indeed. They met seven years ago, went on their first date on September 7, and then found out they and Hardy’s daughter, Kelli, all share [...]