Offbeat

A college professor really lost his cool, when he body-slammed a female teenage student. The entire event was indeed like a pro-wrestling match, except that the small girl was simply helpless. The excuse the professor had? Well, “She started it!”. A Fresno City College instructor and former city council member is on paid administrative leave after body-slamming a 5’1, 101-pound ... Read More »

A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto’s Gate — Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin — the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. Historic sources located the site in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and described the ... Read More »

The violin that was played by the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley as Titanic sank has been found according to a British auction house. They have put it up for sale. Hartley’s violin was believed lost in the 1912 disaster, but auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son say an instrument unearthed in 2006 and has undergone rigorous testing and proven to be Hartley’s. “It’s ... Read More »

One 6th grade girl in a small Michigan town has got really generous. She brought $20k cash to school and started handing out the money to fellow students. Her random act of kindness has really got the attention of the police. Why wouldn’t the police be bothered if a kid brings a backpack full of money to school? The unidentified ... Read More »

A man in California has been arrested for alleged Visine poisoning. His girlfriend in recovering in hospital after he allegedly put Visine eye drops in her drink. A 27-year-old mechanic, Shayne Carpenter has been arrested by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office in Grass Valley, California and booked under the charges of poisoning and domestic violence. What the police say is ... Read More »

A Lego spill on Interstate 79 in West Virginia on Sunday has resulted in traffic congestion in the highway. But a Lego truck didn’t topple causing the spill and the disruption, it was all from just one kid’s Lego collection.CNET reported that firefighter Eric McClain took a photo while helping with the cleanup, which he then posted on Facebook. The ... Read More »

A University of Delaware student has returned $1,800 that was mistakenly dispensed when he went to a campus ATM. Devon Gluck of Ellicott City, Md., tells The News Journal (http://delonline.us/XkUb02) he heard strange noises coming from the ATM when he stepped up to make a withdrawal Feb. 1. Then suddenly it dispensed 18 $100 bills. Gluck says he decided to ... Read More »