Wisconsin Hunter Bags Deer With 7 Legs

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) -- Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers - and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I ...

Solar storm headed for Earth

Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.

Sony Keeps PlayStation 3 Sales Target

TOKYO (AP) -- Sony is sticking to its target of shipping 6 million PlayStation 3 consoles by the end of the fiscal year that runs through March, President Ryoji Chubachi said Thursday, addressing concerns the company might not meet demand....

U.S. Mint Bans Melting Pennies, Nickels

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value - and that has the government worried....

Small Nuclear War Could Lead to Cooldown

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment....

Fashion Gangs Roam Congo.

Fashion-gangs, who call themselves "sape" for the French slang for clothes, roam the ghettos of Congo. They even have their own version of turf wars: They don’t carry guns and rarely brawl, but occasionally they invade one another’s turf, dressed to the nines, of course, in what they ...

Concrete Rings

We simply can't describe the work of Calgary- based jewelry designer Karen Konzuk without using the words industrial and architectural. Made of concrete, stainless steel, and colorful powdercoating, her stunning contemporary collection features concrete cufflinks, necklace pendants, bracelets, and...

Nuclear plant may be built in Levy Co.

Progress Energy Florida says it may build a nuclear power plant in Levy County a few miles north of its existing Crystal River plant.

Morning Tonic: Not Your Average Plastic Surgeon

What a lot of people don’t realize is that cat started out life as a rabbit. He’s that good.

How to Create a Pop Star

Catchy song.

Unusually empty Orlando hotels fueling state's tourism concerns

ORLANDO -- Despite modest tourism growth nationally, visitation to the theme park capitol that underpins Florida's multibillion dollar industry seems to be sputtering.

Ariz. Waitresses Dress As Naughty Nurses

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- The Heart Attack Grill - a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard - is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu....

Police Beat: Dec. 11

 

Wanted: Nobody

Fed up with rising labor costs, a new generation of entrepreneurs is launching millions of tiny companies differing from business ...

4 secrets of a successful job search

Snagging a new job is about more than having the right skills and suit.

The fish with the most powerful jaws in history

Graphic: fangs and forces A prehistoric Jaws that terrorised the oceans 400 million years ago had the most powerful bite of any creature yet known, scientists have discovered....

Legally Blind Woman, 94, Bowls a 244

CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) -- Esther Medley of Centralia is legally blind, but when she bowls she can glimpse a bit of the floor to line up with the lane....

AP: Feds Collect Giant Rats in Florida

As the rising sun danced across Florida's coastal waters, government workers in shorts and T-shirts knelt in a grassy island field and plucked wriggling rats from traps laid the night before. These weren't just any rats. They were 3-pound, 35-inch-long African behemoths. They squirmed as the workers, ...

Florida man pulled from alligator's jaws

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Layoffs have some scaling back holiday shopping in the Rust Belt

A few steps from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s hulking headquarters, striking factory workers marked a month off the job in early November by erecting a lopsided Christmas tree.