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Lifeguard fired for saving drowning man
A group of lifeguards in Hallandale Beach, Florida are out of work after one of their coworkers, 21-year-old Tomas Lopez, was fired for rescuing a drowning man outside his company’s zone of protected beach. Several of Lopez’s coworkers have resigned as a show of solidarity or have been fired for…
Dog rescued from rock quarry cliff in Oregon
Daisy, a dog belonging to Tammy Johnson and her daughter Jennifer, somehow got herself caught in an unusual and dangerous location this week: on a small cliff ledge 200 feet about the bottom of a gravel mine pit in Gresham, Oregon. Daisy was missing for several days before she was…
Minnesota man sells 7-pound hot dogs in time for July 4th
Jason Stetz, the butcher at and owner of Heart O’Lakes Quality Meats in Pelican Bay, Minnesota, is dishing out his newest meat invention as fast as he can make them: 7-pound hot dogs. KRTV’s Kiersten Cooley reports that Stetz invented his version of the beefy giants after watching a “Modern…
Firefighter: Colorado wildfire ‘almost surreal’
According to one of the men on the front lines, fighting the Colorado wildfire can be “almost surreal” at night when all there is to see and hear are the homes of fleeing residents going up in smoke. “As a firefighter, you look at a structure fire, a house fire…
Georgia man ‘high on bath salts’ threatened to eat police
Police in Gwinnett County, Georgia say a man — who admitted to being high on bath salts — had super-human strength and threatened to eat them and customers at a golf driving range last month. Officer Ross Hancock told WSB-TV that 21-year-old Karl Laventure was half naked, running through a…
NASA: Solar storms possible after Monday’s massive solar flare
U.S. space agency NASA warned this week that a massive solar flare recorded on Monday could cause spectacular auroras on Earth as soon as Wednesday. Video published by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in multiple wavelengths jetting out from a sunspot on July 2. The agency said that…
Finnish man’s iPhone bursts into flames
A 17-year-old Finnish man escaped unharmed after the the iPhone 4S he was carrying in his back pocket started smoking and then burst into flames. The Finnish publication SK24 reported that Henri Helminen was getting out of his van when smoke began to rise from his pants. In a CCTV…
Car launches into air after heat buckles Wisconsin highway
Extreme heat buckled a highway in Wisconsin over the weekend causing a car to fly through the air in a scene that looked more like a Hollywood movie stunt. The accident, which happened on Highway 29 near Eau Claire, was captured on video by Theresa Reich as she was trying…
Bill O’Reilly: ‘I may be an idiot’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday gave a half-hearted apology for incorrectly predicting that the U.S. Supreme Court would find President Barack Obama’s health care reform was unconstitutional. During a March 26 interview with American Constitution Society President Caroline Fredrickson, O’Reilly ended the interview by promising to “apologize for…
NASA’s Mars rover to land via ‘sky crane’ in search of ancient habitable environment
NASA’s one-ton Mars rover “Curiosity” is expected to touch down on the red planet next month using a radically new delivery method. Previous landings on Mars have used large airbags to cushion the space rover’s fall. But the new rover is much too large to use that method of landing.…
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