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Humans Raise Baby Gorilla
 Humans Raise Baby Gorilla 
Mar 28, 2013 3:23 PM CDT

Humans Raise Baby Gorilla

Gladys poised for stardom at Cincinnati Zoo

(Newser) - Meet the new zoo superstar: Gladys the baby gorilla. When the 8-week-old western lowland gorilla's mother seemed uninterested in raising her, zookeepers took matters into their own hands, reports AP . Gladys was sent from her home zoo in Texas to the Cincinnati Zoo, where the staff has extensive experience...

How Not to Rob a Store
 How Not to Rob a Store 
Mar 28, 2013 11:49 AM CDT

How Not to Rob a Store

Video captures botched attempt in California

(Newser) - Police in Redding, California, are searching for a criminal mastermind who came thisclose to burglarizing a grocery store, reports Redding.com . Video captures him looking into the locked store, then returning a few seconds later with his face covered in a stocking. He throws a rock at the glass, which...

Camera Lost in Hawaii Washes Ashore in Taiwan

...6 years later

(Newser) - A Georgia woman has been reunited with the camera she lost during a 2007 trip to Hawaii, which, amazingly, washed ashore in Taiwan. Lindsay Scallan says she was on a scuba diving trip when she lost her camera during a night dive. As CBS Atlanta reports, she had forgotten about...

Court to Mogul: Girlfriend Can't Be Your Daughter, Too

Judge calls adoption a 'fraud' against court

(Newser) - News flash: No, you cannot adopt your girlfriend . Especially not as part of an alleged bid to safeguard tens of millions of dollars. A Florida appeals court judge yesterday ruled that John Goodman's 2011 adoption of his lover "constituted a fraud on the court," reports the Sun ...

Florida Town Plagued by 4th Sinkhole?

Seffner just can't catch a break

(Newser) - If you were considering moving to Seffner, Florida, we'd advise you to look elsewhere. Yet another sinkhole may have struck in the town; it's still unconfirmed, but the possibility forced two families to evacuate last night. Seffner's first sinkhole killed a 37-year-old man ; its second appeared just...

Qatar Marriage Rate Falls: Weddings Cost Too Much

Government steps in to help strapped grooms foot the bill

(Newser) - The government of Qatar is worried about the nation's falling marriage rate, and one of the reasons it cites for the decline isn't your standard fare: Weddings have become so expensive that would-be grooms—who traditionally foot the bill—are balking. How expensive? Al-Jazeera talks to one guy...

Sweden Bows to Google, Ditches 'Ungoogleable'

Company objected to newly coined word

(Newser) - How to describe something that can't be found in a search engine? Don't say "ungoogleable" or you'll risk the wrath of the company. The Swedish Language Council has officially removed the term from a list of newly coined words after the company objected on trademark grounds,...

Buying a Python While Drunk Never a Good Idea

Brit gets 8 weeks in prison after ill-advised purchase

(Newser) - A UK man's party purchase almost killed his sleeping buddy. While Dwayne Matthews was drinking with friends, a van arrived whose driver was selling a stolen 10-foot-long python, his lawyer tells the Coventry Telegraph . "In his wisdom, and no doubt egged on by his inebriated friends," Matthews...

Dodgeball Teams Play for Record 43 Hours

Set Guinness world record, according to organizer

(Newser) - A group of dodgeball players chucked balls for almost two straight days this past weekend in New York and say they set a new Guinness world record in the process. A high school gym teacher organized the 18 men and women, who started playing at 7pm Friday and put down...

Church Posts 'Strip for Me' Sign Near Strip Club

Birmingham pastor gets his message across

(Newser) - A billboard near a "gentlemen's club" in Birmingham screams out "strip for me" to passersby, which is notable mainly because it was put up not by the club but by a local church, reports WBRC . The pastor of Rock Church is paraphrasing a line from the Bible'...

Jared Leto Fan Mail: Severed Human Ear

Someone either loves or hates 30 Seconds to Mars...

(Newser) - Jared Leto's fans show their passion in slightly horrific ways. The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman told XFM last week that in one case, "Someone cut their ear off ... and sent it to me, that was very strange. A whole ear. The Van Gogh move. The note just...

Just in Time for Passover: Kosher Cigarettes

Israeli body gives 3 brands seal of approval

(Newser) - It's Passover and for the first time, Israeli smokers can puff away on rabbi-approved cigarettes, the AP reports. The group that certifies foods and other items as kosher for the week-long holiday approved three brands of cigarettes after determining that their ingredients had not come into contact with grains...

Rich Russians Take Ambulances to Dodge Traffic

Moscow police say they're looking for fakers

(Newser) - Running late for a meeting in Moscow? You can go online and hire an "ambulance taxi" for $200 an hour or more—a savvy way to cut through the city's notorious traffic jams, the National Post reports. According to a Russian paper, police discovered the ruse when they...

Guy's Car Ends Up on Neighbor's Roof

In the second such incident recently

(Newser) - Seems like it would be fairly difficult to get your car to fly through the air and land on the roof of a house , but now two people have done it within one month. This time around, a Southern California man's car ended up on his neighbor's roof...

Capote's Remains Invited to NYC Party

But 'risk of theft was too high' at after-party for Broadway premiere

(Newser) - Breakfast at Tiffany's almost had a very high-profile guest mark its opening on Broadway last week: author Truman Capote himself. Producers wanted to fly in Capote's ashes for the after-party, the New York Post reports. They were even willing to pay for first-class airfare for the remains, which...

Now 1K Dead Ducks Pulled From China River

As number of dead pigs passes 16K

(Newser) - First Shanghai pulled thousands of dead pigs from one of its rivers; now another river in China is experiencing a similarly disturbing problem. One thousand dead ducks have been pulled from Nanhe river in Sichuan province, the BBC reports. Residents found the duck carcasses inside more than 50 woven bags...

Swedish 'Hotel' Lets You Pay to Be Homeless

Sleep in the cold for $15 a night

(Newser) - A Swedish organization is offering visitors a unique hotel experience: They can spend a night as a homeless person for $15. The "hotel," run by Faktum magazine in the city of Gothenburg, has 10 "rooms," including a sleeping bag in a park, a dirty mattress under...

Real-Life Bart Simpson on Trial Before &#39;Mr. Burns&#39;
 Real-Life 
 Bart Simpson 
 on Trial Before 
 'Mr. Burns' 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Mar 24, 2013 5:59 PM CDT

Real-Life Bart Simpson on Trial Before 'Mr. Burns'

Court coincidence has UK news agency snickering

(Newser) - Normally, a routine court appearance by a guy in the UK accused of possessing an illegal gun at an airport wouldn't become a buzzy little Internet story, but the guy's name happens to be Barton Simpson and the judge is identified as "Mr. Recorder Burns." Get...

Sergio Garcia Takes Crazy Shot —From a Tree

Because just taking a drop is entirely unexciting

(Newser) - Faced with a ball that landed in a tree, Sergio Garcia today did what pretty much no golfer would do, ever: As Business Insider reports, he climbed about eight feet up, found his balance, then hit the ball behind him with a one-handed shot that earned him a roar from...

What It&#39;s Like to Survive the Bubonic Plague

 Stunned Couple Gets 
 the Bubonic Plague 
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Mar 24, 2013 11:54 AM CDT

Stunned Couple Gets the Bubonic Plague

Husband slips into coma for nearly 90 days

(Newser) - Cases of bubonic plague aren't exactly common these days. But when Lucinda Marker and her husband John Tull fell ill on a trip to Manhattan—and realized it might not be the flu—they were smart to go see a doctor. It turned out that plague-infected fleas had bitten...

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