Steven Adams stories, Page 6
Letter in film canister washes up on Outer Banks beach after 36 years
A New Jersey boy had to wait 36 years to get his pen pal. Rob Stober was 11 years old in 1983 when he slid a handwritten letter into a plastic film canister and tossed it into the sea from a pier in Ocean Grove, N.J., reports OBX Today. He...
Woman who offered $25,000 reward in husband’s killing now charged with his murder
A Wisconsin woman once offered $25,000 to anyone with information about the 2006 murder of her husband. She will now be charged with the crime. Investigators say Kenneth Juedes, 58, had two fatal shotgun blasts to his chest when Cindy Schulz-Juedes of Chippewa Falls reported that she found her husband...
297 Amazon packages stolen after driver leaves them outside wrong post office
This is the time of the year when boxes get swiped from front porches, but these never even made it to the post office. An Amazon courier left four pallets of packages outside the Pioneer Post Office in California on Sunday, reports FOX-40. That post office is closed on weekends....
Cop pulls over giant banana car; gives driver $20
Getting pulled over on the highway can cost you some green. Unless your driving a yellow banana. Steve Braithwaite has been touring America in a banana-shaped convertible for two years, according to his Big Banana Car website. He was recently departing Michigan behind the wheel of his home-made fruit sculpture...
New Hampshire library bans patrons who return books with bed bugs
Some bookworms are including bed bugs in the volumes they return to a library in New England. Books were discarded and desks wiped down with alcohol after the staff found bed bugs in books returned to the Lane Memorial Library in Hampton, New Hampshire, reports Seacoast Online. The vermin were...
OpenTable names top Pittsburgh-area restaurants for November 2019
The restaurant booking service OpenTable has released its monthly tally of eateries that diners rate the highest. The top-ranked spots in the Pittsburgh region include six in the city proper and four that are farther afield. Siempre Algo Siempre Algo is a casual neighborhood favorite along the transforming East Ohio...
Boy catches 42-pound catfish in New MexicoVideo
The fish was almost as big as the boy who caught it. Alex Flores, 9, hauled in a 42-pound blue catfish Sunday evening at the Elephant Butte Reservoir near Las Cruces, New Mexico. “I was pretty proud of him for being humble about the whole experience. He was excited,” Kris...
Deer wanders into Walmart, finds floor too slipperyVideo
A young doe had some trouble walking after it strolled through the front door of a Walmart. The deer on Wednesday entered the store in Wooster, Ohio’s North End but quickly found the tile floor too slippery to browse the aisles, reports the Daily Record. Shopper Bert Moore shared video...
Family told to take down Christmas decorations because it’s too soonVideo
A Texas family is refusing to comply with an order to remove the Christmas display they installed on Nov. 1. The Simonis family decorated the outside of their home near San Antonio with a snowman, some reindeer and a Santa hanging from a helicopter, reports WOAI News. On Nov. 4,...
Colorado town pays $50K to woman ticketed for playing Frisbee toplessVideo
Women have the same rights as men to bare their chests in Loveland, Colorado. At least until city council reviews their indecent exposure law. Efrosini “Effie” Krokos, 20, has been paid $50,000 and had all charges dropped after she was cited for playing Frisbee topless in her front yard on...
The Number Two Tavern is world’s first poo-powered pubVideo
It may look like a traditional Yorkshire pub but it’s flush with new technology. The Number Two Tavern in Leeds, England, is a pop-up demonstration of a cutting-edge energy production using power created by anaerobic digestion, according to Yorkshire Water. The process converts sewage into biogas that can generate heat...
Korean Air merges safety talk with music video starring SuperM, BoAVideo
An airline’s new safety video might end up being a musical smash hit. Korean Air partnered with K-pop stars SuperM and BoA to produce a sleek music video to be featured on flights starting Monday, reports Billboard. The video combines SuperM’s song “Let’s Go Everywhere” with futuristic air travel visuals...
Storm dislodges boat stuck on rocks above Niagara Falls for 101 yearsVideo
A breakaway boat that sparked a dramatic rescue above Niagara Falls in 1918 has remained stuck in that spot. Until now. The wreckage of the iron scow, used in a dredging operation 101 years ago, had been resting on the rocks about 600 yards from Horseshoe Falls all these years,...
Smugglers using $100 saws to get through Trump’s new border wallVideo
Smugglers in Mexico are sawing through new sections of U.S. border fence using tools commonly available at The Home Depot. Smuggling gangs along the southern U.S. border are repeatedly cutting through the steel-and-concrete posts of President Trump’s new fence using off-the-shelf power tools, reports The Washington Post. Government agents and...
Pa. woman turns front door into giant cookie monsterVideo
A York Township woman’s Halloween decoration consists of a Cookie Monster that swallows her entire front door. Lisa Boll, a former landscape designer, used blue spray paint to turn her vines into the beloved Sesame Street character, reports ABC News 27. Some Styrofoam eyes and a big chocolate chip cookie...
World’s largest tree house burns down in 15 minutesVideo
An iconic tree house burned to the ground in just 15 minutes. The fire Tuesday at the structure, famous for being the largest tree house in the world, started at about 10:30 p.m., reports WVLT-TV. It collapsed just as emergency crews arrived on scene. Minister’s Tree House near Crossville, Tenn.,...
America’s scariest haunted house requires doctor’s note, 40-page waiver, safe wordVideo
This is no neighborhood fundraiser haunted house. In fact, you’ll be paid $20,000 if you make it through. No one has. Russ McKamey runs the scariest fright house in the country and it’ll cost you just a bag of dog food (McKamey has five dogs) to enter, reports WFLA.com. The...
Pa. baker creates life-size deer wedding cake
A couple asked a Lancaster County baker to create a wedding cake in the shape of a deer. The result has been deerly beloved on Facebook. Pam McNeal sculpted the life-size deer at Shady Maple Farm Market in East Earl, according to the market’s Facebook page. The couple provided the...
Family finds 5 inches of blood in their basementVideo
An Iowa family discovered a bloody mess in their basement. Five inches of animal blood, fat and tissue, to be specific. Nick Lestina, a father of five, stopped home on Oct. 3 and found his sump pump spewing red liquid, reports the Des Moines Register. The blood and guts had...
Pennsylvania fir selected as White House Christmas tree
A 23-foot Douglas fir from Pennsylvania will be decorated and displayed in the Blue Room of The White House this Christmas season. The tree was planted about 16 years ago at Mahantango Valley Farms in Upper Mahanoy Township in Northumberland County, reports WNEP. White House officials selected the tree Tuesday...
Bike lane prank dangerous but a hit on social media
A city in Cyprus got some surprises when it hired a company to paint a bike trail. Residents of Limassol found their new red cycling route a little difficult (and unsafe) to follow, reports Knews Kathimerini. The painted path made twists and turns around obstacles like trees and parked cars,...
Woman claims neighbor’s wind chimes make her scream in pain
A woman in southern England claims the sound of wind chimes is so painful that she is confined to her bedroom. Chrissie Bradby, 56, of Poole, Dorset, has a neuromuscular disease called dystonia which makes her muscles uncontrollably contract and trigger pain, reports Metro.co.uk. She says high-pitched noises trigger the...
Circus Peanuts dethroned by candy corn as worst Halloween candyVideo
Which candy is the most disappointing to find in your trick-or-treat bag? The folks at CandyStore.com have done the research and this year there’s a new name at the top (or bottom?) of the list. Those yellow, orange and white fangs of sugar known as candy corns have claimed the...
Company shames job applicant for bikini photo: ‘This is not doing you any favors’
A marketing company got itself some bad publicity after it used a job applicant’s bikini photo to advise women to be more modest online. Emily Clow, 24, from Austin, Texas, had applied for marketing coordinator internship with Kickass Masterminds, reports Yahoo News. The marketing company, founded and primarily run by...
Startled car prowler suspect caught on cameraVideo
A car prowler suspect appears quite surprised to see a camera light up as it began recording his activity. Police in Beaverton, Ore., have a solid lead on who might be responsible for rummaging through cars in an apartment parking lot, reports KOIN 6 News. A woman found her car...
