Author: DFShow

George Zimmerman painting sells on EBay for $100,099.99

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

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The flag is blue because George ran out of red paint and didn’t want to use the blood on his hands.

 

The painting should be hanged right after George is…

How much is a painting created by George Zimmerman worth? For one EBay bidder, $100,099.99 was just the right price. The user’s prize: A signed 18-inch-by-24-inch oil painting of a blue American flag featuring a part of the Pledge of Allegiance, which had a starting bid of $0.99. The identity of the buyer is unknown, but according to the listing, the winning auction bid was one of 96 by 24 users when bidding closed…

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Science Says: Cocktails Could Protect You From Getting Sick

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

With the onslaught of holiday parties upon us, a bad case of the sniffles could threaten your merrymaking. Luckily science has swooped in with the jolliest solution of all: You can boost your immune system, a new study claims, by drinking that spiked eggnog. A team of researchers from Oregon Health & Science University trained 12 rhesus macaques—chosen for the similarity […]

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Man steals $30,000 worth of earrings at Kmart in Indianapolis

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

A Kmart store in Indianapolis in 2011. Police are searching for a robber who stole $30,000 in earrings from a Southeastside Kmart store. The bandit, described as “unkempt” and “heavy,” used a tool Saturday to cut a security cable on the spinner rack of earrings at Kmart, 5101 E. Thompson Road, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report. A clerk told officers that the theft set off an alarm, and she tried to […]

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Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

MIAMI — Like a macabre marine mystery, the carcasses — many badly deteriorated and tossing about in the surf — first turned up along the coast of New Jersey in June. Soon, droves of them washed up in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and most recently Florida, their winter home. So far this year, nearly 1,000 bottlenose dolphins — eight times the historical average — have washed up dead along the Eastern Seaboard from New […]

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Long-Ago Shows From Stars Like Perry Como and Dean Martin

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

The spurious “war on Christmas” bemoaned on Fox News notwithstanding, a war really has been going on in recent years at the holidays: a war between traditional television Christmas specials and that aggressive musical interloper, the singing-competition finale. It’s a mismatch. With December now dominated by singing competitions — “The X Factor” and “The Voice” wrapped up last week; “The Sing-Off” ends Monday night — the old-fashioned variety-show-style Christmas special feels as if it […]

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