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Governor compares gay marriage to incest
Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is in hot water after he compared same-sex marriage to incest in a TV interview. The governor was speaking about same-sex marriage on WHP-TV when one of the anchors asked about a statement his legal team made in a recent court filing. That statement compared the marriage ...
Tiger mauls employee at animal sanctuary
An Oklahoma woman is recovering after a tiger attacked her at a zoo in Wynnewood about an hour south of Oklahoma City. It happened late Saturday morning when an unidentified employee put her hand through a 450-pound tiger’s fenced enclosure. The zoo’s owner is withholding the woman’s name until he ...
Families hoard cash 5 yrs after crisis
They speak different languages, live in countries rich and poor, face horrible job markets and healthy ones. When it comes to money, though, they act as one: They're holding tight to their cash, driven more by a fear of losing what they have than a desire to add to it. ...
5 achievements that haven't won a Nobel Prize
The announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners will start Monday with the medicine award and continue with physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The secretive award committees never give away any hints in advance of who could win, but here's a look at five big scientific breakthroughs that haven't ...
Uchimura, Biles get 2nd gold at gymnastics worlds
All-around champions Kohei Uchimura of Japan and Simone Biles of the United States added a gold medal in an individual event Sunday to cap sterling performances at the gymnastic world championships. Uchimura won the parallel bars to give Japan a fourth gold out of seven men's events. Biles again showed ...
Oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 96
Nicholas Oresco was hospitalized last weekend for a broken leg, and died of complications from surgery for his injury.
Oregon bartender gets $17,500 tip
An Oregon bartender just got the tip of a lifetime. One of Aurora Kephart's regulars at Conway's Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips her with Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery. On Tuesday evening, the man who wishes to remain anonymous asked Kephart to choose two. When she checked ...
Five signs your baby is ready for college
Babies grow up fast. Before you know it, they're out of the house. Is your baby ready for college?
Man climbs skyscraper in diving suit
Charity fundraiser Lloyd Scott has succeeded in climbing 38 floors to the top of London's Gherkin building in a 1940s deep-sea diving suit weighing 130lb (59kg).
Video: Postal worker drives onto lawn, sidewalk, to deliver two pound package
Mark Anderson put security cameras in to keep an eye on his disabled mother during the day. But when it took a peek at what was happening at home he was shocked to see a post office truck parked on his lawn. “I saw a thumbnail image of the post ...
Man finishes 23-year voyage around the world
Mike Spencer Bown started his journey in 1990 and made sure to experience the culture of every single country on Earth.
Muslim claims restaurant hoodwinked her into eating bacon
Nicole Queen went to TGI Friday’s for lunch with her friends but says she left being shamed in the eyes of her religion after being served pork without ordering it. Queen is converted Muslin and as such is forbidden to eat pork. Queen and her friends told WFAA they thought ...
Great Plains digs out of heavy snow, storm debris
Breaking nearly century-old early autumn snowfall records, a storm system smothered South Dakota's scenic Black Hills in South Dakota with up to 3½ feet of wet, heavy snow, leaving residents the challenge of digging out. But wintry weather wasn't the only thing delivered by the powerful cold front that crossed ...
Shopping spree, old $100 bills leads to SC arrest
There aren't many secrets in a place like Gaffney, so when two heating and air conditioning workers suddenly quit their jobs and began buying stuff like a big screen TV, a used car and a riding lawn mower with $100 bills so old they didn't even have the off-center portrait ...
Rare dinosaur-tail fossil found by construction worker
A construction worker installing pipeline in Alberta, Canada never thought he’d find this — “A huge dinosaur fossil. Come and take a look, it’s believed to be the tail of a 35-foot dinosaur.” (Via HLN) CBC reports a backhoe operator was working on a pipeline when the shovel broke off a piece of ...
Obama open to name change for Washington Redskins
President Barack Obama says he would "think about changing" the Washington Redskins' name if he owned the football team as he waded into the controversy involving a word many consider offensive to Native Americans. Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names such as the Redskins offend ...
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