7 More Things You Need To Know About the Switch to Digital TV

A couple of months ago we filled this spot with happy facts about the nationally mandated switch to digital TV. We’re back with new, not-so-happy findings. We’ve found there could be some glitches in your switch — especially if you have an over-the-air television (the kind that uses rabbit ears or rooftop... More

Politician Accused of Bouncing Checks for Voodoo Curse

A county commissioner in Georgia has been accused of writing two bad checks to a South Carolina voodoo high priestess in return for a ritual designed to cause a Democratic primary opponent to develop cancer or have a car accident. George Ann Mills of Blythewood, S.C., claims Cobb County Commissioner Annette Kesting wrote her two checks totaling $3,000... More

Woman Sues for Emotional Distress Because She’s No Longer Blonde

A Connecticut woman filed a lawsuit claiming she suffers from severe emotional problems because she’s no longer blonde. Charlotte Feeney of Stratford says she bought a box of L’Oreal hair color to touch up her blonde tresses, but the box contained the wrong dye and turned her into a brunette. She says she can never get her hair back to its “naturally... More

Woman Arrested in Opossum-Related Violence

A 21-year-old woman has been arrested for kicking in her ex-boyfriend’s door, then kicking her ex-boyfriend, in a custody dispute over a pet opossum, according to a police spokesman named Andy Bu Bear. Source: Stuff.co.nz.    Read More →

You don’t deserve a break in your tooth today

Injuries suffered after biting into fast food may leave you in pain — and without any way of recovering damages. Or so a Worcester man discovered recently. He drove his truck up to the take-out window of a McDonald’s restaurant and ordered an extra-value meal. Back on the road, he bit into a quarter- pounder burger and crunched down on... More

As ‘head coach’ of team of prosecutors, Middlesex DA enjoying winning record

By Franci Richardson Ellement Daniel J. Bennett still remembers the day he was late for a basketball game with Gerard T. Leone Jr., when the two were students at Harvard University. Bennett, who admittedly took his time over lunch, returned to the dorm room he shared with Leone to find the future Middlesex County district attorney pacing. “He was saying, ‘I just wasted a half-hour. I haven’t wasted that much time all year,’” recalls Bennett, today a prosecutor in Leone’s... More

Beautiful Lawyers (Seriously.)

Lawyers: they’re boring, stuffy, buttoned-up. At least that’s what people have always thought. But on Jan. 1, these same people just might change their minds. That’s when walls all over Massachusetts will be adorned with the first-ever “Beautiful Lawyers Calendar.” The brainchild of law-firm marketing director Howard A. Altholtz, a portion of proceeds... More

7 TIPS for . . . Dealing With Catalytic Converter Theft

They’re stealing from your car in broad daylight! Nope, they’re not after your radio or your GPS, your fancy rims or your high-priced stereo. What these guys want every car is required to have. What are they after? How do they get it? And could your car be next? We’ve got the inside scoop on a new and brazen crime: catalytic converter... More

Want to know what’s in your FBI file?

By Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Wonder what that background check said? The FBI might know. Has anyone ever called you whose buddy once spoke on the phone with someone suspected of terrorism? Did you follow that? Even if you didn’t, the FBI might have. And you can ask. In fact, about 13,000 people do just that every year - they ask to see... More

Michigan Home Sells for $1.75

Real estate transactions hit a new low in Michigan when a house in Saginaw changed hands for only $1.75, just as the city was about to foreclose on it for back taxes. The sellers of the abandoned property put it up for auction on eBay to avoid the imminent tax foreclosure. Remarkably, the home at 1606 Perkins Street received seven other bids... More

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