4+ hour, 29+ min ago   (527+ words) I practically spit out my drink. “Connasse”, she adds, puts a little twist on the word. “It has something a bit mean about it,” she continues. “Arrogant. Despising. Pretentious. Someone with no consideration for others.” “It was this moment in…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (504+ words) A crumbling and vacant Grade II listed former town hall is costing an east London council approximately £850,000 each year for standing empty. Hackney Council revived efforts to restore the 90-year-old Stoke Newington Town Hall when it was placed on Historic…...

3+ day, 34+ min ago   (604+ words) Former Ohio attorney Matthew Exton has been convicted of attempted murder after prosecutors said he tried to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range inside a crowded Toledo restaurant. The attack was stopped when the loaded handgun failed to fire because…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (340+ words) They've made it so. A total of 934 fans gathered at London's Science Museum on Star Trek Day to mark the seminal show's 60th anniversary. They were there not only to celebrate the anniversary but to attempt to set a new Guinness…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (218+ words) Spire Motorsports announced on Thursday that NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series regular Brennan Poole will drive the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST for the team in the upcoming NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway (September 26). Poole competes full-time for…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (654+ words) American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr bought a 46-acre macadamia farm on Hawaii's Big Island for $1.78 million in 2007. Eighteen years later, the Hawaii property changed hands for $2.6 million after going on the market for $1.95 million, as per a report. The…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (532+ words) A man sentenced to death for a double murder in Georgia asked for a massive final meal before he faces execution by lethal injection next week. Stacey Humphreys, 53, who was convicted of malice murder in the 2003 killings of 33-year-old Cynthia…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (401+ words) Chris Rock wants to make a fourth Madagascar movie. The 61-year-old comedian voiced Marty the zebra in the original 2005 animated family-comedy movie, its sequels, 2008's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and 2012's Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and its shorts, including 2009's Merry…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (113+ words) inkl Vet visits can bring out a very particular side of cats. Some freeze in complete disbelief, others immediately start plotting their escape, and a few seem perfectly content to accept the attention, as long as they’re sufficiently pampered. Scroll…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (616+ words) A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas woman can't sue two Santa Fe police officers who pinned her face down on a fire ant hill while she was handcuffed, causing her to receive hundreds of painful bites to her…...