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A wedgie is normally a teenage prank. In this case, it’s the basis for a murder charge. Police in Oklahoma have charged a 33-year-old man with killing his stepfather by giving him an atomic wedgie. Davis has apparently claimed self-defense, saying that his stepfather “jumped him” while he was visiting the home. Deputies investigating St. Clair’s death found his underwear …

Former New York Knicks star Charles D. Smith has admitted his remorse over taking part in a game hosted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Dennis Rodman, a self-proclaimed friend of the dictator, travelled to the capital Pyongyang with other former NBA stars to take part in a game to honour Un’s birthday, scheduled to be played on Wednesday. …

The jailed former football legend, who is serving out a kidnapping, assault and robbery sentence in a Nevada prison, is undergoing secret medical exams for a cancerous tumor in his brain and is convinced he hasn’t got long to live, The National Enquirer reports. The publication reports he has even begged President Obama for a pardon so he can die …

Marijuana is being legalized, medically or for all uses, in states across the US. Most well-reasoned people think this is a good thing. CNN’s Nancy Grace does not. And she is an idiot of the highest order.

Ah CES, a time of innovation, gadgets, and — if you’re T-Mobile CEO John Legere — a time for getting kicked out of your competitor’s party. Legere, an executive known for speaking his mind (often with colorful language), crashed AT&T’s Developer Summit concert tonight and spent some time hanging out with tech journalists, including CNET’s Roger Cheng. The event was …

A Phoenix man was facing federal charges after being stopped at the Mexican border allegedly trying to smuggle a woman into the United States in a suitcase. Border agents in Nogales, Ariz. discovered 48-year-old Pornkamol Mongkolsermsak curled up inside a suitcase while searching a Honda SUV entering the U.S. on Dec. 30, according to Customs & Border Protection officials.

Despite an admirable intellect and dedicated support for US military personnel at war, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says President Barack Obama didn’t have sufficient faith in the troop-surge strategy he ordered in Afghanistan. After months of debate with Gates and top advisers, Obama ordered a troop surge in Afghanistan in late 2009. Around 30,000 soldiers were to be …

More than 100 people have been charged in a Social Security fraud scheme that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, new York prosecutors said Tuesday. Among those indicted were 80 retired New York City police officers and firefighters, the New York Times reported.

It is apparently cold enough in Kentucky for an escaped prisoner to decide to turn himself in to police. Robert Vick escaped a minimum security facility in Lexington on Sunday. He broke into an abandoned farmhouse, stole some clothes and slept in a barn. But as temperatures dropped Monday, he walked into a nearby motel asking for help.

Elvis works at Parker Machinists Shop right after graduation. That summer he drops by The Memphis Recording Service, home of the Sun label and makes a demo acetate of “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” for a cost of about $4.00. (The studio came to be known as Sun Studio though never officially named that until the 1980s. …

Rock ‘n roll singer and actor, Elvis Presley, began his life as a bereaved sibling. Born January 8, 1935, in East Tupelo, Mississippi, he was the child of Gladys and Vernon Presley. His twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, was stillborn, so Elvis grew up as an only child. As an infant, he was undoubtably affected by his mother’s emotional state …