Are you having a hard time finding the perfect land for your new house? Looking for some nice vacation property? Forget about Montana, Cayman, Hawaii, or Fiji; buy your own virtual island. An Australian game player known only as Deathifier has spent $26,500 on an island that only exists in the game [...]
Last month Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was singled out by a coalition of religious and family groups as too violent. The group criticized any company that creates a product that glorifies murder and hate crimes; and denounced retailers that sold such games. Maybe they spoke up too soon. Near Houston, at [...]
An Idaho man is charged with involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shoots a friend on a dare. The pair were testing a protective vest. Police say that victim Alexander Joseph Swandic asked the defendant David John Hueth to shoot him in the vest.
It sure must have been one tough kindergartener for handcuffs to be required to restrain him. A private school in St. Louis recently suspended its principal for resorting to police tactics to control a 5-year-old child.
Fox is taking a step in in sheer bad taste with a new reality show called “Who’s Your Daddy?” The show has one woman trying to pick between 8 men; one of which is her biological father.
James MacArthur isn’t the smartest marijuana dealer in Idaho. The spot he picked for a drug deal was in front of the sheriff elect’s house.
Two minors were arrested after a police officer noticed a trail of stolen items running from a shattered windows to their house.
In what could be the worst budget cut ever for a school, Three Rivers School in Sunriver, Oregon, elementary students are being forced to clean the rooms after janitors come under the budget knife. So, instead of reading, writing, and math; it is sweep, mop, and scrub.
TiVo is doing everything it can to keep its company name from going where Google has gone before; to becoming a verb. Apparently, TiVo is fighting to keep phrases like ‘I TiVoed my favorite show’ from common use.
America Online inadvertently deactivated an undisclosed number of users last week. The mix up, confirmed Friday, occured earlier in the week when a set of active screen names was mixed into a group of old screen names. The older screen names were ones that have not been used in the past 12 months [...]