The U.S. Postal Service has gone Scrooge this year by shutting down a program in North Pole, Alaska where volunteers responded to letters sent to Santa Claus. The program answered thousands upon thousands of letters every year.
The program will go on elsewhere in the U.S., but privacy concerns have led to more restrictions, and those [...]

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The doomsday movie 2012 raked in $65 million during its opening weekend in the U.S. and pulled in $225 million worldwide, according to estimates from box office tracking company Nielsen EDI.
The debut was about $5 million more than experts predicted and rounded out a disastrous trilogy for director Roland Emmerich, who also directed Independence Day [...]

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It has been almost three years since Heather Ellis cut in line at a WalMart store in Missouri and triggered a racially-heated incident with white customers and police. Now, the court case is about to begin that could send the young African American teacher to prison for 15 years.
On January 6, 2007, witnesses told [...]

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The Vatican just wrapped up a five day conference on astrobiology where some of the world’s greatest scientists gathered to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life, i.e.: aliens.
The man who was the impetus for this conference was Director of the Vatican Observatory, Father Jose Gabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes conducted an interview [...]

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The parents of Falcon Heene, the ‘Balloon Boy’ who was thought to have floated away in a homemade balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges related to one of the most elaborate hoaxes in modern times.
The Heenes called police in October and told them that Falcon, 6, had been taken into the sky by a [...]

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We did some digging and found the audio from Sandra Herold’s chilling 911 call as her 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, attacked her friend Charla Nash, who bravely appeared on Oprah on Wednesday.
You can listen to the horrific chimp attack 911 call below.
Travis the Chimp went berzerk and viciously attacked Charla Nash as Sandra Herold begged police [...]

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UPDATE: Hear the shocking 911 call from the chimp attack here.
Charla Nash, the woman from Connecticut who was disfigured by a 200-pound chimp back in February, went on “Oprah” on Wednesday to reveal her face and share the disturbing details on her life after the attack.
Nash, 56, revealed what is left of her missing eyes, [...]

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The 2009 holiday toy season is kicking into full gear, and no toy is hotter this year than Zhu Zhu Pets.
Zhu Zhu Pets are revolutionary new “pets” that don’t require any parental supervision.
They are essentially battery-operated hamsters that zip around in play sets at will. Their movements are incredibly like-like.
As we wrote here in [...]

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John Allen Muhammad, A.K.A. the infamous DC Sniper, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night at a prison in Virginia for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers back in 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal.
Muhammad,48, was the mastermind behind the 2002 beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people with [...]

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Heads up, parents. A Maclaren Stroller recall is set to be announced on Tuesday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
A report from by ABC News indicates that in excess of 1 million strollers will be recalled by the company due to issues with children getting fingers caught in the strollers.
Model numbers have not yet [...]

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