Posted July 25, 2007 
Comments(0) A grandad has just discovered he has been living with a broken neck for 59 years.John Richards, 74, did not know he had fractured vertebrae when he fell from a tree while stealing apples as a 16-year-old in 1948.
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Posted February 27, 2007 Comments(0) Ed O’Neill’s bank account just got a lot bigger, thanks to a co-worker who told him some “idiot” hasn’t claimed an $800,000 Powerball lottery prize.
O’Neill, 58, who works for the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, bought the ticket for a Jan. 6 Powerball drawing. He told Iowa Lottery staffers he didn’t think to check the results until a couple days afterward when a chamber receptionist pointed out an article in the local newspaper.
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Posted February 26, 2007 Comments(0) SAN JOSE, Calif. Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse a handful of Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework.
Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park has mostly banned homework - except reading, special projects or catch-up work. Palo Alto’s Addison Elementary and the Berryessa School District in San Jose are discussing the issue.
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Posted February 17, 2007 Comments(0) MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - An airline pilot from Maplewood won a $25,000 lottery jackpot — two days in a row. Raymond Snouffer Jr. matched the winning numbers 11-14-23-26-31 to win Saturday’s Northstar Cash drawing with odds of about 170,000 to 1, Minnesota Lottery officials said.
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Posted February 17, 2007 Comments(0) A champion paraglider described today her terror at being flung to a height greater than Mount Everest by a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia.
Ewa Wisnerska, 35, was sucked so high that she blacked out and was encased in ice.
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Posted February 9, 2007 Comments(0) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — All those harried days juggling phone calls have paid off handsomely for Shannon Hermes.
Hermes now owns about $1.3 million worth of Google stock, the result of Google Inc.’s acquisition of YouTube last year, according to a new regulatory filing by Google.
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Posted February 6, 2007 Comments(0) A Coralville man arrested for allegedly depositing marijuana at the bank last September is expected to have the charge dropped because the bank teller gave the pot back to him, the prosecutor in the case said Monday.
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