Category: Top Stories

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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Bangladeshi Factory Owners Charged in Fire That Killed 112

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

NEW DELHI — The police in Bangladesh charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees with culpable homicide in the deaths of 112 workers in a fire last year that came to symbolize the appalling working conditions in the country’s dominant textile industry. The case is the first time the authorities have sought to prosecute factory owners in Bangladesh’s garment industry, so powerful that the state has long sought to […]

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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots

December 23, 2013 - Top Stories

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory of a pioneer in the design of intelligent humanoid machines. The early roboticist, Hirochika Inoue , began work in the field almost a half-century ago at the University of Tokyo, and in the mid-1990s led the design of robots that could both walk […]

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