A White House petition created days after 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., surpassed 100,000 signatures, the threshold that now requires the Obama administration to respond. Posted to the White House’s “We the People” page, the petition calls for all police to wear cameras. The creator, “J.C” from Hephzibah, Georgia called it the …
Hospital Says It Was Tricked Into Selling Drugs For An Execution
When Louisiana ran out of lethal injection drugs this year, officials announced the state would switch to a new two-drug cocktail. But what they apparently failed to disclose was that the new drugs had been purchased from a hospital that thought it was healing prison hospital patients. According to the Lens, a New Orleans investigative nonprofit, the Louisiana Department of …
Texas Woman Kicked Out Of Restaurant For Changing Baby’s Diaper
A mom said she was kicked out of a Texas restaurant because she couldn’t find a private place to change her baby’s diaper and was forced to do it at her table. Miranda Sowers was at Brother’s Pizza Express in Spring this week when she was reportedly kicked out for changing her baby’s dirty diaper. If the Mommy Wars were …
Anti-Anxiety Meds Can Help Fish, Too
We all know by now that the meds we flush down drains don’t just disappear: lake and river creatures are the unwitting recipients of pharmaceuticals that enter their ecosystem via our sewage. And according to a new study, published Friday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, drugs prescribed to treat humans may also be helping out fish. Researchers at Umeå …
‘Ghost’ Harasses Mourners At U.K. Cemetery
What a ghoul-igan! An unemployed British man from Portsmouth was arrested April 29 and later fined after pretending to be a ghost near mourners at a grave, according to The Portsmouth News. While a nearby family was paying their respects to a lost loved one at Kingston Cemetery, a drunk 24-year-old Anthony Stallard was “throwing himself backwards, waving his arms …
The Hunt Is On For Diamond Dropped From Space
The hunt is on for this £12,000 diamond after it was dropped 100,000ft from space, landing in a mystery location somewhere in a small village in Lincolnshire. And the best part is – if you find it, you can keep it. Yup, the lucky person will keep every single bit of the 1.14-carat stone. No strings attached. ‘Whoever finds our …
Doctors Pulled Tooth Out Of A Man’s … What?
Nosebleeds are common among children and young adults, but one young man’s frequent nosebleeds turned out to have a rather unusual cause: He had a tooth in his nose, according to a new report of his case. After suffering from nosebleeds once or twice a month for three years, the 22-year-old man in Saudi Arabia consulted a doctor, who found …