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Death Valley Gets Record for Hottest Day ... 99 Years Later

Libya's claim thrown out because of unreliable thermometer

(Newser) - California's Death Valley now has the honor of posting the hottest temperature on record, but don't blame climate change—the record-breaker of 134 degrees happened on June 10, 1913. The reason for the belated title? Libya had claimed the hottest day on record since 1992 with a thermometer...

Regulators Frown on 'Ice Cream Bank'

Pittsburgh man is paying out interest in gift cards

(Newser) - State regulators are cool on a Pittsburgh businessman's idea for a bank that pays interest in ice cream shop gift cards. The Pennsylvania Department of Banking says it wants Ethan Clay to shut down the community bank he's set up at Oh Yeah! ice cream and coffee shop....

Wife Sues Husband Over Hidden Camera Snooping

Court battle raises privacy questions

(Newser) - How well do you really know your spouse? Are you completely sure he or she hasn't been recording your every move with a hidden camera for months? Because that's what Joseph Zang did to his wife, Catherine, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Catherine found out about the recordings during...

Missing Woman Found Alive... in Freezer

She hid there to escape storms

(Newser) - A Tulsa woman took shelter in a deep freezer during severe storms last weekend—but the freezer itself turned out to be the bigger danger. It seems she couldn't get out, authorities say, and she went missing for five days until relatives headed to the 59-year-old's apartment to...

Irate Gas Stations Protest Gouging —By Charging $10 a Gallon

Franchises angry at varying Lukoil prices

(Newser) - More than 50 Lukoil gas station owners in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are fuming over price discrepancies—so they've simply ratcheted their gas up to $9.99 a gallon. They're angry because the Russian firm sells gas to local franchises at very different prices, even if the stations...

Woman Finds Ex-Boyfriend Living in Attic

Police find cups full of urine, feces

(Newser) - When a South Carolina woman heard a thump from her ceiling Saturday night, she assumed it was an animal. Instead, her sons and an adult nephew went into the attic to find … the woman's ex-boyfriend, who had been living there. "He had packed all the old coats...

Cops: Woman Holds Up Man During Sex in Moving Car

Amanda Jean Linscott distracted driver in crash

(Newser) - A female robber pulled a gun on a man while they were having sex in a moving car driven by the victim, police say. The action, not surprisingly, triggered a crash. The slightly battered 26-year-old Florida woman, Amanda Jean Linscott, fled the scene after the car hit a palm tree...

Stowaway's Body Lands on London Suburb

He was trying to get from Africa to Heathrow Airport

(Newser) - The body of a man who attempted to hide in the landing gear of an airplane headed to Heathrow Airport came crashing down on a residential street in a London suburb, reports the Telegraph . The stowaway likely got on board in North Africa but died during the trip, either because...

New Theory on King Tut's Death: Epilepsy

His features, family history provide big clues

(Newser) - Was it epilepsy killed the king? A surgeon with a penchant for history at Imperial College London makes a compelling argument, based on Tut's family history and propensity for religious visions, reports the Washington Post . Hutan Ashfarian analyzed ancient images of pharaohs thought to be Tut's immediate predecessors,...

Apple Goes After ... Polish Grocery Site

Apparently A.pl is a big threat

(Newser) - Apple is not happy with A.pl , a Polish grocery website that, it says, is using a similar-sounding name and a similar-looking logo to sell, presumably, fruit and vegetables. At the moment, A.pl looks nothing like Apple.com and simply resembles … a Polish grocery website. But that could...

Pat Robertson: Turn Muslim and You Can Beat Your Wife

Responds to question about woman lacking 'respect'

(Newser) - Got marital problems? Pat Robertson to the rescue! When a caller asked Robertson what to do about a wife who lacks "respect for me as the head of the house," the televangelist had some advice: "You could become a Muslim and you could beat her." He...

Californians Wonder: What's That Stench?

Smell of fish die-off may have traveled 150 miles

(Newser) - Something is rotten in the state of California: A smell like rotten eggs spread across a huge area of Southern California yesterday, prompting hundreds of 911 calls and complaints to air quality authorities, reports the LA Times . Officials initially thought a toxic spill or sewage leak could be to blame,...

Smugglers Busted With Primates in Their Skivvies

Lorises headed to Dubai from Bangkok

(Newser) - Is that a slender loris in your pants, or are you just happy to see me? In this case, it was the former: Three United Arab Emirates men headed to Dubai from Bangkok were caught with small primates in their underwear. Two were carrying mammals called slender lorises, Sri Lanka...

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot


 Elderly Farmer 
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Sep 9, 2012 9:01 AM CDT

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot

The culprit: Bird food with hemp seeds, he says

(Newser) - Want to keep the drug police off your property? Don't sow your land with birdseed. That's what a 74-year-old German farmer says he did—and the bird food contained hemp seeds, resulting in an accidental 10-foot-high cannabis crop, Der Spiegel reports. He explained that he wanted to grow...

Brussels to Fine ... Insults
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Sep 8, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Brussels to Fine ... Insults

Watch your mouth, or it could cost you

(Newser) - Feel like really telling someone off? Keep it off the streets of Brussels, where you could now be fined as much as $315 for the offense. "Any form of insult is from now on punishable, whether it be racist, homophobic, or otherwise," the mayor was quoted as saying...

Telemarketer Snaps After Man Hangs Up on Him
Telemarketer Snaps After
Man Hangs Up on Him
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Sep 8, 2012 1:20 PM CDT

Telemarketer Snaps After Man Hangs Up on Him

Calls back, says he has placed a bomb in house

(Newser) - Raise your hand if you've ever told a telemarketer "no thanks" and promptly hung up. Keep that hand raised if the telemarketer has then called back and threatened to blow up your home. That was apparently the situation in Mead, Colorado, last week, reports 7NEWS . "The telemarketer...

Woman Finds Renoir Original at Flea Market

Painting could sell for up to $100K later this month

(Newser) - The flea market box lot was less than $50, and the buyer picked it up mostly for the Paul Bunyan doll it contained. But it turns out the box lot also contained an original painting by Renoir that could fetch up to $100,000 in an auction at the end...

Couple Spends Honeymoon in Florida Jail

They allegedly left kids home alone while they got hitched

(Newser) - After a whirlwind wedding, a Florida couple was whisked away to a romantic honeymoon—behind bars. Kymberely Frederick, 30, and Daniel Richards, 34, were arrested Tuesday for alleged child neglect: They'd left their one-, two-, and three-year-old children at home alone while they were tying the knot, police say....

Disgruntled Banker Moons Bosses, Loses Millions

Court decides Bank of America was right to fire cheeky exec

(Newser) - Mooning his bosses at Bank of America was no doubt a satisfying moment for disgruntled banker Jason Selch—but it ended up costing him his job and $2 million. After his employer merged with Bank of America's Columbia Asset Management and fired a friend of his for refusing to...

Mars Inc: We Do Not Endorse Fried Mars Bars

Because they're too ... unhealthy

(Newser) - The next time you bite into a deep-fried Mars bar, you should know that the Mars candy company does not endorse the unhealthy lifestyle choice you are making. That's right, Mars actually wrote to the Scottish pub that says it was the first to fry the candy bar, in...

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