Reuters - Karen Janody was so annoyed by the
mounds of free newspapers blowing around the streets of London
she decided to build a house with them to illustrate the degree
of waste.
AP - Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie company that introduced the Very Sexy bra, the Fantasy Bra, and the Internet server-crashing fashion show, has become “too sexy” for its own good, its top executive said.
AP - Tillie Iverson is observing her 24th birthday Friday ? at the age of 96.
AP - A 26-year-old Iraq war veteran bought four scratch-off lottery tickets at a convenience store after an evening workout and wound up winning $1 million.
Reuters - A 44-year-old mother of two has become
Japan’s oldest professional boxer after passing the Japanese
board’s license test.
Reuters - Malaysia has found nearly 9,000
people aged more than 100 on its electoral rolls as it heads
for general elections next month, raising suspicions that the
books are “contaminated” with dead voters.
AP - Longtime KEZI anchor Rick Dancer led off the 11 o’clock news with word that a Republican had announced his candidacy for Oregon secretary of state. The candidate: Rick Dancer.
AP - A restaurant cook is out of a job and facing a felony charge after being accused of hiding hairs in a ribeye because a customer complained the first steak served to him was overcooked.
AP - A man found out that February in the East Tennessee mountains isn’t the best time to try hiding from the law underwater. The Blount County Sheriff’s Office says James Earl Jett fled an accident in Rockford after deputies found out the truck he was driving was reported stolen.
AP - A mail carrier was trapped inside her car for nearly two hours at a home near Hanover after a pair of dogs attacked her tires, flattening three of them.