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The state Supreme Court says a dentist who stuck boar tusks into the mouth of an anesthetized employee/patient, pried her eyes open, and took photographs, was conducting a "business practice" and his insurance company must pay his attorney fees and court costs. That means dentist Robert Woo will get more money from his insurance company than his employee did when she sued him for "outrage, battery, invasion of privacy, false light, public disclosure of private acts, nonpayment of overtime wages, retaliation for requesting payment of overtime wages, medical negligence, lack of informed consent, and negligent infliction of emotional distress." The...

MONTROSE, N.Y. — Officials filed felony charges against 19 high school seniors after using dollar-store alarm clocks in an end-of-year prank misinterpreted as a bomb scare. "It never crossed anyone's mind that this could be taken that way," said Alex Kane, a senior who gave $1 toward the clock prank, the Contra Costa Times reported. The Hendrick Hudson students had planned to set and disperse 150 clocks throughout the school to sound their alarms at 9:15 a.m., signaling the end of high school. With duct tape wrapped around the clocks, shaped like butterflies and houses, teachers would not be able...

One month after the firing of radio host Don Imus, a pair of suspended New York shock jocks have been permanently pulled from the air by CBS Radio for a prank phone call rife with Asian stereotypes. “The Dog House with JV and Elvis,” featuring Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, “will no longer be broadcast,” CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said yesterday. CBS Radio dismissed Mr. Imus in April for a comment he made about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. He plans a $120 million breach of contract lawsuit. The cancellation of the other show yesterday, nearly three weeks after...

A toilet painted bright green and a pirate flag adorned the clock tower over Joseph Skeen Library at New Mexico Tech in Socorro until crews took it down Monday.Crews noticed the commode Sunday morning and taped off the area so nobody would get hit if the lime porcelain fell.A prankster had apparently placed the commode on the top of the vertical tower, but crews are still trying to figure out how – and who.“I’m assuming someone from the rock climbing club or something like that,” said Timmy Silva of the college’s maintenance crew.Officials suspect it might have had to...

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If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians. Why would a presidential candidate make such an important announcement on his MySpace page? The answer? He wouldn't. But I would. You see, John McCain's people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace design template and did a few things wrong: 1. They did not credit me for the template, even though the template explicitly requested credit. 2. They used my own unmodified imagery, specifically...

<p>Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad to detonate two of the devices.</p>

<p>MILWAUKEE — Someone hung a mannequin from the top of a 1,200-foot television tower and authorities said Saturday that the culprit may now have radiation poisoning.</p> <p>Police were called to a tower of WDJT-TV in Milwaukee at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, department spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said in a news release.</p>

As time passes, it is increasingly clear that the ABC News report which started the Foley firestorm is odorous—and I’m not talking Chanel. (1) It dealt with the emails which the FBI and many media organizations considered as innocuous as the Republican leadership did. Who circulated these reports is not yet clear.Foley’s spokesman said his opponent, Mahoney had been shopping the story to the media for some time....(much more)

CNN: PAGE LAWYER DOES NOT RULE 'IN OR OUT' PRANK CLAIM... DEVELOPING... Former congressional page Jordan Edmund's lawyer Stephen Jones... BLITZER: He will join us live in the next hour. What are you hearing, Brian, about some of these Internet suggestions, some Republicans suggesting this whole thing is a prank, a hoax and there is no there, there. CNN REPORTER: "We asked him about that item in the DRUDGE REPORT. He said very clearly he cannot rule that in, he cannot rule that out. He says he is not saying it was not a prank but later in the interview,...

I worked in the Istook Campaign in Oklahoma City. One of my co-workers was Jordan Edmund. I actually didn't get to know him all that well, but everything I saw and heard about him indicated that he was not gay. He basically behaved like your standard frat boy. His facebook account no longer exist. If he was part of some prank, I didn't know about it. Jordan came from CA long before I arrived and was there when I left. Jordan was a hard worker and didn't loose his temper or anything like that. He mainly talked about Berkley and...

"Naked and hungover in the US embassy bushes He won't be the first 18 year old Stockholmer to wake up wondering where he is after a night of hard partying. But he is the first - and probably the last - to discover that he has come round in the grounds of the American embassy. Naked and confused, the young man tried to hide himself in the embassy bushes on Sunday morning. But after a while he was caught and questioned by police. "He thought he was taking part in some sort of game and had been given the task...

DULUTH, Minn. Pranksters might say the West Duluth police substation is going to pot. A dozen marijuana plants 4 to 6 inches tall were found growing in a planter near the substation's front door. City Gardener Tom Kasper estimated they had been growing for about three weeks. "The only thing I can say is somebody has a sense of humor," said neighborhood supervising police Lt. John Beyer. "Now they'll read about it in the paper and say, 'Yeah, that was me.' " Beyer noted that he, his police officers and the public use the back door entrance to the police...

The Cuban authorities have launched an inquiry into how the official newspaper of the Communist party ran a front page photograph of Fidel Castro which appeared to have been doctored to make him look like Adolf Hitler. When the edition of Granma hit the streets this month party officials began to retrieve as many copies as they could, an operation which appears to have deterred foreign journalists based on the island from reporting the story. The picture appeared above a story which reported President Fidel Castro's meeting with North American students. Close examination of the photograph shows that the image...

WORTHINGTON, Ohio Aug 24, 2006 (AP)— Someone shot at a carload of teenage girls, critically wounding one of them, after some of them had stepped near a house that had been rumored by fellow students to be haunted, police said. A man who lives in the house, Allen S. Davis, was arrested Wednesday in the shooting of 17-year-old Rachel Barezinsky the night before. He told reporters Wednesday from jail that he was trying to drive off trespassers and didn't intend to hurt the girls. Barezinsky remained in critical condition Thursday at Ohio State University Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said....

KENTON, Ohio (AP) -- It was intended to be a prank: steal a decoy deer, place it on a country road and watch as motorists swerved to avoid it. It ended with two teenagers suffering serious injuries when their car hit the decoy and rolled into a ditch. When a judge ruled this week that two boys -- both high school football players -- can complete the football season before they serve 60-day sentences at a juvenile detention center, it caused a division in this northwest Ohio city. On one side are those who say allowing Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old...

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. --Here, the bubbles runneth over. A park fountain in this southern Minnesota town has been hit by suds-dumping pranksters at least 10 times in the past few months. And now, city officials are in a lather. "Baby-sitting a fountain just isn't a good use of our time," said police Capt. Wayne Hoffman. Every time the fountain is "soaped" -- as the police and parks workers call it -- several clean up and repair jobs must get done. The fountain has to be turned off and drained. Then the inside of it and the water-circulating lines must be...

A man who dialled 110, a crime emergency hotline 1,400 times in the past three months, was caught recently. Wu, 43, was jobless and lonely. He often reported false alarms and used offensive language with the cops over the hotline.

JERSEYVILLE, Ill. Police in Jerseyville say they arrested five Alton High School students after four of them climbed through a first-floor window at Jersey Community High School and used squirt guns to spray a classroom full of students who were taking a history. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon. Rachael Jones, a 17-year-old junior, said she was in her U-S history class along with about 20 other students when she heard a noise outside. She said she saw four boys dressed all in black and wearing bandanas over their faces crawl through the windows and into the classroom, where they used...

Google's news service has cut ties with a press release aggregator after the partnership led Google News to link to a fake item written by a teenager who said he'd been hired by the search giant. On March 10, Thomas Vendetta, a sophomore at Pitman High School in New Jersey, posted a fake press release to I-Newswire.com, a Web site that lets people submit press releases for distribution to online sites. The release said Vendetta had been hired by Google to work on fixing a security flaw in Gmail. "The student will receive a lowered salary, which will be placed...