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While recording a video for her customers, a webcam model has accidentally shot herself in the vagina. According to reports the incident occurred inside her home earlier this month. Police were called to an “accidental gunshot wound” at a residence in Thomaston, Georgia, USA, shortly before noon on November 9. A sheriff’s deputy arrived to the scene to find a paramedic holding an unloaded handgun and a spent bullet casing, who told police: “The female had shot herself in her vagina, accidentally.” It is believed the model is named Lauren Hunter Daman, 27. She was reportedly alone inside her bedroom...

FULL TITLE: 'We've ruled out Satan': Mysterious hole in the ground shooting out 12-foot-high flames for 40 minutes in Arkansas leaves officials stumped ___________________________________________________________ On September 17 a hole in the ground shot out 12-foot flames for 40 minutes The blaze broke out on a private property in Midway, Arkansas at 4.30am Weeks later, officials are still clueless as to what caused the inferno Officials have ruled out meteorites, a gas leak and Satan as potential causes Soil samples from the area are yet to be tested and could reveal the cause Geologists determined that the hole was made by...

After 50 years, fire still burns under Pa. town (A motorist in 2004 drives among the smoldering remains of land near Route 61 in Centralia, Pa. AP file photo) Fifty years ago Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone. All these decades later, the Centralia fire still burns. It also maintains its grip on the popular imagination, drawing visitors from around the world who come to gawk at twisted,...

DALLAS - A 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada swallowed 247 peppers in eight minutes to win the Jalapeno Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas. Richard LeFevre won $2,000 for prevailing in Sunday's contest, which was sponsored by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. "I love to eat, and I love to compete, so the two go pretty well together," said LeFevre, the world's eighth-ranked eater according to the federation. LeFevre, who has also won the fair's World Corny Dog Eating Contest three times, said his winning strategy was to mix three or four peppers in his mouth...

A patient's "gas leak" is being blamed for bringing a hospital operation to a fiery end. The man suffered minor burns in a brief but "dramatic" operating theatre fire which is believed to have been caused by flatulence, The New Zealand Herald reported today. The man was at the Southern Cross Hospital in Invercargill to have haemorrhoids removed and was singed in the "exceedingly rare" incident involving his own gas. "This was thought to be flatus containing methane igniting," a health source told the newspaper. "There was a sort of flashfire and that was it, but it was fairly alarming...

Britain's Conservatives winning greater share of gay vote: poll LONDON (AFP) - The election of David Cameron as leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party has delivered it a significant boost among the gay community, according to a survey. The poll for website PinkNews.co.uk suggested that 29.7 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) voters in England said they would back the Tories under Cameron in the forthcoming local elections on May 4. That figure compares with just 19.2 percent who voted for the party under its previous leader, Michael Howard, at the 2005 general election. Prime Minister Tony...

Red glow in rocks. Sure looks warm.

The good tidings for the war on Palestinian and international terror may emanate from the laboratories of the chemistry faculty at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. If current experiments at the Technion labs are successful, Israeli security forces will soon be equipped with an efficient means of responding to explosives belts worn by Palestinian suicide bombers. The dean of the chemistry faculty, Professor Ehud Keinan, speaks about a technological breakthrough. "There are things that are still classified, but we are examining original ways of dealing with very unconventional explosives that are manufactured in the laboratories of...

Police discover cache of pipe bomb materials in Hillsboro HILLSBORO, ORE. - Police made a startling discovery Monday evening at a Hillsboro apartment complex. Officers responding to a call found enough explosive materials to make more than 100 pipe bombs inside one of the apartments. Police also discovered a one-year-old child inside the apartment, which was taken into state custody. Several nearby apartments had to be evacuated at the complex, which is located at 645 W. Main Street in Hillsboro. Members from the Portland Bomb Squad were brought in to help dispose of the materials. A neighbor who spoke...

For almost 10 months, Esther Macklin sought answers to the most basic of questions: How and why did her son, Pvt. David Evans Jr., die? She knew he was killed May 25 in an explosion at an Iraqi munitions dump he was guarding. But Friday, she learned how: through horseplay by fellow soldiers. One of two soldiers entering a building full of munitions lighted some fuse bundles, and that set off a series of explosions. Evans was killed instantly, and one of the two surviving soldiers now faces homicide and manslaughter charges in his death. Macklin showed conflicting emotions Friday...

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. -- A stash of decaying dynamite discovered in a storage shed is frozen and can't be safely moved until the spring thaw, authorities say. Explosives experts said Wednesday that the 500 to 700 pounds of dynamite posed no immediate danger to nearby residents and businesses - unless someone tampers with it. The information didn't pacify all the residents and business owners within 1,250 feet of the shed who learned more about the situation at a meeting with officials Wednesday. "I'm scared and I'm angry," said Shirley Cipra, who lives about 500 feet from the shed. "We've...

Knox NCO killed in Iraq Staff Sgt. Richard Ramey of the 703rd EOD died Sunday from an explosion in Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Fort Knox Public Affairs OfficeStaff Sgt. Richard Ramey, 27, of Canton, Ohio, a Soldier with the Fort Knox-based 703rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment, died in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, Sunday of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated.Ramey, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist had been stationed at Fort Knox since April 9, 2001. He had been in the Army since 1995.Approximately 15 Soldiers from the 703rd are in Iraq. The detachment deployed in September for a six-month rotation.At Fort Knox...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six were wounded Monday while trying to clear explosives in northern Iraq (news - web sites), the U.S. military said. The explosion, which occurred near the city of Sinjar outside Mosul in northern Iraq, appeared to be an accident, a spokeswoman for the military said. "They were conducting explosive ordnance disposal when it happened," Sergeant Sonja Whittington said. Sinjar is about 250 miles north of Bagh

 Deployed EOD airmen do a bang-up job    Released: Feb. 4, 2004  By Senior Airman Lynne Neveu 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs SOUTHWEST ASIA (USAFENS) -- Having a bang-up time while deployed is not something these airman want to do.  Actually, the farther away from booms and bangs, the better. As part of the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, airmen from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England and Misawa Air Base, Japan, put their lives on the line and their training to the test to ensure the safety of others here and in the area...

Scientists have created a plant that can locate landmines by changing colour when it comes into contact with explosives, a breakthrough they hope will save thousands of lives. The plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, or green wall cress, is cheap to produce and can grow from seed in six to eight weeks. Molecular biologists from the Danish company Aresa modified the plant's genetic structure so its leaves change from green to red when its roots come into contact with nitrogen dioxide, a chemical discharged from explosives when they are buried in soil. The colour change will allow mines or explosive residue to...

Iraq Blasts May Have Killed More Than 100 6 minutes ago By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer IRBIL, Iraq - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the offices of two rival Kurdish parties in this northern Iraqi city. Kurdish officials said casualties were still being counted, but one minister said the death toll could rise above 100. The dead included the governor of the region, ministers in the local administration and several senior officials, Mohammed Ihsan, the human rights minister for the Kurdish regional government told The Associated Press. "These figures are estimates but I believe about 60 people...

Four earthquakes off the coast of Oregon (and another in the bottomless pit in Fiji):  NEIC: Near Real Time Earthquake ListNear Real Time Earthquake ListUpdated as of Mon Sep 2 22:06:17 UTC 2002.DATE-(UTC)-TIME         Latitude Longitude Depth Magnitude Q  COMMENTSyyyy/mm/dd   hh:mm:ss   degrees  degrees   km                                                                                       2002/09/02  18:21:35    43.95N   128.36W   10.0  4.7       A  OFF COAST OF OREGON2002/09/02  15:17:13    44.01N   127.92W   10.0  4.4       B  OFF COAST OF OREGON2002/09/02  13:39:17    43.94N   128.29W   19.2  5.4       A  OFF COAST OF OREGON2002/09/02  13:38:10    43.91N   128.39W   21.6  5.2       A  OFF COAST OF OREGON2002/09/02  06:16:53    17.32S   178.79W   500.0 4.4       B  FIJI ISLANDS   NEIC: Historical Seismicity: OFF COAST OF OREGON          210 miles...