Police in Olympia, Washington, found a man’s body 35 feet up in a tree Wednesday by a man who noticed the body a year ago and didn’t tell anyone. The young man kept it a secret until he noticed the body still in the tree a year later and called the police.
Arizona star forward Luke Walton has been accused of being a lookout while other players stole money and candy from a hotel vending machine. A guest saw men wearing jackets of the top-ranked Wildcats grab up to 80 candy bars and change from the machine over the weekend, according to police.
The University of Louisville has ordered an immediate campus ban on credit card solicitors after two of them offered students a promotional t-shirt that featuring a racially and sexually offensive joke entitled “10 Reasons Why a Beer is Better than a Black Man”. The chairman of Bank One, which issues the credit cards said he was “outraged,” and fired the firm handling its card promotions on campus.
An 18-year-old in Clacton, Essex, is recovering after his car was hijacked half way through his driving test. The student driver and his examiner were dragged from the vehicle by two thugs as they fled from a post office robbery. The learner was only 20 minutes into his test and will have to repeat it to get his license.
An Alaskan woman opened a package before Christmas to discover it contained one of her long-dead father’s leg bones and samples of his body tissue. The remains were were sent to her home by a Houston DNA testing laboratory. The woman was forced to store the samples from her father’s corpse in her neighbor’s freezer.
The latest version of “The Joy of Sex” no longer features a long-haired bearded hippie in its sex illustrations. The man has been given a haircut and a shave. The woman featured in the drawings has retained her copious underarm hair but now smiles broadly when tied to the bed.
Warner Brothers posted the full trailer for The Matrix Reloaded Sunday on the web to coincide with its showing during the SuperBowl. It promises a broader look into the sequel to The Matrix than the previous teaser trailer which gave only small glimpses.
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