Less than a month before he was murdered in Sept. 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur had purchased a black 1996 Hummer H1 hardtop pickup. Earlier this month, it was sold during RR Auction’s Marvels of Modern Music online auction for $337,144. Like any self-respecting Hummer H1 owner, Shakur wasn’t going to let this one go unpersonalized. Additional features, according to RR …
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Kalamazoo: Jason Dalton bound over to trial following wild outburst in court (Video)
KALAMAZOO, MI — Jason Dalton will stand trial for the Kalamazoo shooting spree that left six dead and two seriously injured. Jason Dalton, 45, of Cooper Township, appeared in court for a preliminary examination today, where Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting presented testimony and evidence against him. Kalamazoo County District Judge Christopher Haenicke’s ruling came Friday afternoon after a day …
Read More »Dog discovered high on meth, heroin, owner charged with animal cruelty (Video)
A dog tested positive for meth and heroin after its owner was arrested on drugs charges. The terrier mix was found Thursday in a Tustin motel high on heroin and methamphetamines. Bubba’s owner, 40-year-old Joshua West, was in the motel room with his dog when police found used needles and drugs.
Read More »Musician Calvin Harris hospitalised following car accident
DJ Calvin Harris was injured in a car accident on Friday as he was headed to the airport for a Las Vegas performance. The artist is okay, but according to his representatives and Facebook page, he has been told to rest “for a few days” by doctors. Harris was a passenger in a Cadillac when the vehicle collided with a …
Read More »Two lions killed in Chile zoo as they maul naked suicidal man (Video)
A naked man who jumped into the big cat enclosure at a Chilean zoo has survived but only after the lions attacking him were shot dead. Horrified visitors watched as 20-year-old Franco Luis Ferrada jumped into the pen and taunted the male and female lions into attacking him on Saturday morning. Zookeepers turned a hose on the animals, then fired …
Read More »Tyrannosaurus Rex likely had lips, says Toronto paleontologist
Today the world learned that Tyrannosaurus Rex probably had lips. New findings from University of Toronto vertebrate palaeontologist Robert Reisz challenge the idea of what therapods might have looked like when dinosaurs roamed the earth. His research will be presented today at a conference at U of T Mississauga – and it’s already making headlines. “When we see dinosaurs in …
Read More »Mullah Mansoor killed in Pakistan, US military says
Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor has been killed in a US airstrike in a remote area of western Pakistan, according to a senior Taliban commander. According to the local media reports, U.S. unmanned aircraft on early Sunday morning fired two missiles at a vehicle which was believed to carry Mullah Mansoor and his colleague in Ahmad Wal, a small town which …
Read More »Tukwila named most dangerous city in America, SafeWise study
Tukwila has been named the most dangerous city in America, according to home security consultant website SafeWise. The report by SafeWise said they analyzed FBI crime report statistics from 2014 for all cities with a population of more than 10,000, and then tallied the number of violent crimes, which they defined as murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and forcible rape, and …
Read More »Hidden gold ring found at Auschwitz after 70 years (Photo)
Staffers at the Auschwitz Museum have found a gold ring hidden in a false bottom of one of the cups on display in the main exhibition. The mug, one of thousands of kitchenware items seized by Nazi guards from those deported to the camp in southern Poland during World War II, was found to have an inside double bottom, under …
Read More »Nile Crocodiles Found in Florida, Scientists Confirm
University of Florida researchers confirmed in a recent study the capture of three Nile crocodiles in South Florida. The ancient icon eats everything from zebras to small hippos to humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Now three juveniles of the monster crocodile, have been found in South Florida, swimming in the Everglades and relaxing on a house porch in Miami.
Read More »USS Zumwalt: “Captain Kirk” takes delivery of US Navy’s futuristic stealth destroyer
The US Navy announced Friday that it accepted delivery of the future USS Zumwalt, the lead ship of the Navy’s next-generation of multi-mission surface combatants. Sailors’ uniforms and personal effects, supplies and spare parts are being moved aboard the 610-foot warship in anticipation of crew members taking on their new charge, said Capt. James Kirk, the destroyer’s skipper. The Zumwalt …
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