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Home » News & Politics » News of the Weird

Category: News of the Weird

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd September 27, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story About two dozen committed Christians arrived at Cherokee Lodge, a nudist resort near Crossville, Tennessee, in June for a semiannual retreat called the Christian Nudist Convocation. According to […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd September 13, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story In the Pacific archipelago nation of Vanuatu, the government’s drive to develop a Western-style financial system has created difficulties for citizens living in isolated villages, who typically use […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd September 6, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story The crazy-mouse race heats up: In July researchers at Johns Hopkins announced that they had become the first to genetically engineer mice that suffer from a mild form […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd August 30, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story At a hearing last month in children’s court in Perth, Australia, a 12-year-old girl was sentenced to two months’ detention for an incident in which she stole a […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd August 23, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story Shortly after moving into a Vancouver condominium apartment in June, Miles Nurse and Jennifer Plomt discovered that (a) the unit was infested with bats and (b) British Columbia […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd August 16, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story Security camera footage taken one May afternoon at the Union Station mall in Kansas City revealed that a small boy had wandered away from his mother, noticed an […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd August 9, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story After ten years of trying, Roger Tullgren of Hassleholm, Sweden, recently succeeded in having his consuming interest in heavy-metal music officially classified as a disability. According to June […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd August 2, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story The UK’s Daily Mail reported in June on zoologist Brady Barr and a recent documentary shoot for National Geographic in which he infiltrated a colony of Tanzanian crocodiles […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd July 26, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story With small vineyards in the Languedoc region of southern France struggling to compete with cheaper imported wine, a group of extremist winemakers known as the Crav issued a […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd July 19, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story When 20-year-old Andres Vasquez of Verona, Kentucky, called 911 late one night in May, he told the dispatcher he was trapped beneath a car someone had thrown on […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd July 12, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story Among the positions cited in Popular Science’s “Worst Jobs in Science” list for 2007, from the magazine’s July issue: whale-feces researcher (guided by trained dogs, teams locate floating […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd July 5, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story The Anchorage Daily News reported in May on new efforts to minimize contact between grizzly bears and the thousands of visitors who fish Alaska’s Russian River each summer. […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd June 21, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story Der Spiegel reported in May on objectophilia, or sexual and romantic attraction to specific inanimate objects. A 41-year-old objectophile identified as Joachim A.–who said he began his first […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd June 14, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story The New York Times and the Associated Press reported in April on surgical procedures in which doctors avoid making major incisions by instead accessing the inside of the […]

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News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd June 7, 2007August 19, 2021

Lead Story In January 39-year-old Ronald Dotson of Detroit was sentenced to 18 months in prison for an October incident in which police reportedly found him trying to break into […]

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