Madonna stars in a remake of the 1974 film “Swept Away” and the Madonna fans who packed the preview showing have proclaimed it to be a boring stinkbomb that might be the worst film ever made. The audience howled with laughter during her dramatic scenes and left the movie in droves throughout the second half of the film.
Thad Ryan Roberts, 25, and Gordon Sean McWhorter, 26, were indicted Friday for stealing moon rocks in Houston. Both men are from Salt Lake City.
A third person, Tiffany Brooke Fowler, 22, of Odessa, Texas, pleaded guilty to theft conspiracy and illegal transportation of moon rocks.
A Los Angeles County health inspector says there are probably more rats than people in Beverly Hills. Four consecutive mild winters has led to a population explosion of the rodents. They are dining at dog bowls and drinking from swimming pools.
One physician in the area complained that he found three large rats dining on his buffet table in his back yard. On another occasion he found several of them taking a dip in his swimming pool.
Police in the West Java city of Cirebon have arrested a 36-year-old unemployed man for raping five goats to death. The man’s wife reportedly died two years ago, said he had raped goats every night since early September because he could not afford to pay prostitutes.
A tiger attacked a kindergartner at a Scotts Valley, California, school assembly Friday. The boy was airlifted to a hospital for evaluation.
The tiger was brought to the school as a reward for children who had sold 10 or more magazine subscriptions.
Police in Trenton, New Jersey, say a group of children set a duck on fire and then had their pit bull attack it. Animal control officials are treating the duck’s injuries.
Valerie Charles, 23, who posed as a 16-year-old boy to have sex with a teen girl, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct this week. The Hillsdale County, Ohio, woman disguised herself as a boy and had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
Sentencing is scheduled for October 28.
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