Offbeat

340-year-old German bible has been found by a sixth-grade teacher in Bonduel, Wis. The 1,500-page Bible, a copy of Martin Luther’s translation, was printed in Germany in 1670, researchers told WLUK-TV, the local Fox affiliate. Debra Court found it while searching for old baptism records to show her students, but she thought it was just an old book. That was ... Read More »

A wallet stuffed with 20 plastic cards and a stroke of luck saved a pub doorman in western Germany from serious injury during a knife attack. A customer ejected from the pub in the city of Witten on Sunday stabbed its 31-year-old doorman four times in the chest with a knife, police said. But a fat wallet in the bouncer’s ... Read More »

A British court on Wednesday convicted a man of assault and placed him under a two-week curfew for throwing a snowball at a female police officer. Dean Smith was shopping with his family before Christmas in the town of Swadlincote, central England, when he chucked the snowball at the officer. The 31-year-old pleaded guilty to common assault at the court ... Read More »

MERIDIAN, Idaho – Tyler Ashton Marx’s lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both. The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho. Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched his son’s birth over the Internet. Leslie Marx tells ... Read More »

A trip to Hollywood for appearances on “Dr. Phil” and “Entertainment Tonight” got off to a rough start for an Ohio homeless man whose golden voice has made him an Internet sensation. A disturbance report was made after Ted Williams and his daughter got into a heated argument Monday at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa. “It was minor. Both ... Read More »

After nearly fifty years of persevering with a life under her husband’s surname, 75-year-old Kyoko Tsukamoto is taking the Japanese government to court so that she can at least bear her own name when she dies. “My husband and I still love each other, but this and the issue of Tsukamoto are different,” she said. The former teacher uses her ... Read More »

Is Facebook closing? Is it shutting down on March 15,2011? Holy cow! What a rumor? It is making me mad with laughter. How can an enterprise worth $50 billion dollar with 500 million users close down suddenly. The rumor craps should have considered the facebook statistics before starting it out. Lol! Dont worry folks, facebook is not closing or shutting ... Read More »