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Warning about neighborhood residents finding unexploded 'bottle bombs' in their yards....

Has actor Leonardo DiCaprio been tapped to portray Martin Luther King in an upcoming film?...

Was New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick really attacked by a stray pitbull?...

Will the U.S. dollar officially collapse on 1 July 2014 due to the implementation of H.R. 2847?...

Under Obamacare, must patients 76 and older must be admitted to the hospital by their primary care physicians in order to be covered by Medicare?...

Despite whatever eye-popping headlines you may find in your news feed this week, pro wrestler Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway was not found dead in his Houston home on April 11. Consider the source of the report, Empire Sports News , which bills itself as "a satire and entertainment website" and is infamous for previous "scoops" such as " Michael Vick Hospitalized in Pit Bull Attack " and " Blake Griffin...

In the 1987 tax year, seven million people previously claimed as dependents on income tax returns suddenly disappeared. Where did they go?...

Legend has it that in 1983, Atari disposed of millions of unsold 'E.T.' game cartridges in an Alamogordo landfill. Is that really what the company buried out in the New Mexico desert, or was it something else? ...

Lars Baron / Getty Images "Blood Moon" is a term of folklore with more than one meaning, sometimes referring to any full moon that occurs in October (also known as a "Full Hunter's Moon") and sometimes referring to any total lunar eclipse, during which the moon is likely to turn dark red in color as the earth's shadow crosses its face. As it happens, there's a total lunar eclipse on April 15, 2014...

Are schoolkids really smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic substance they contain?...

Are Kansas legislators considering a bill that would force the Fox science show 'COSMOS' off the air in that state?...

Account of a pregnant woman who named her child after the rescuer who died while saving her and others at the World Trade Center on 9/11....

Is the NCAA investigating the use of 'skill enhancing drugs' by the 2014 champion UConn Huskies men's basketball team?...

The discovery of a major bug known as 'Heartbleed' has prompted web sites to encourage users to change the passwords for all of their online accounts immediately....

Ben and Jerry's outlets are offering free ice cream on 8 April 2014....

After a bank failure, does the FDIC have 99 years to pay back insured deposits?...

FBI agents holed up in a psychiatric hospital attempt to order pizzas from an incredulous delivery man....

They call it "satire," but much of what circulates by that name these days is pure, tabloid-style gossip-mongering. Take the story " Justin Bieber Admits to Being Bi-Sexual ," published on the fake news website Huzlers.com a few days ago. It's accompanied by a Photoshopped picture purporting to show Bieber locking lips with fellow teen idol Austin Mahone. The smooch never really took place, nor did...

Photograph purportedly shows a school essay rejected because the student chose 'Jesus Christ' as her hero....

Did George Zimmerman sell his painting of Trayvon Martin for $30,000 at an online auction?...