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For more than three years, a twentysomething Minnesota woman named Layne Johnson lured thousands of people to her Web site every day with a poignant and brutally honest diary of her life. Now the person behind Layne has come forward and admitted that it was all an elaborate hoax.
I knew the man who killed Jimmy Hoffa. That's if the deathbed confession of Teamsters union heavy-hitter and self-described Mob hitman Frank Sheeran is to be believed. The FBI is taking it seriously.
Cecil and Joan Mercer have watched mystified and more than a little disturbed as the tails of their ponies have been chopped by a thief with an unknown motive.
Every day, I read the stories on 12 of the top news sites across the world. And every day, I'm amazed anew at some of the drivel that reporters are forced to report on.
Met's catcher Tom Wilson was forced to wear a different uniform than his teammates for the second game of a day-night doubleheader against the Yankees because the Mets didn't bring along the correct jersey.
The European Union — famous for allegedly imposing wacky regulations — has come under fire again. Now it has been attacked for supposedly wanting to erect warning signs on mountains and in caves.
Moby, Dick and a Lunachick celebrated a rite of summer in Brooklyn's annual Mermaid Parade, joining about 1,500 people who marched along the Coney Island boardwalk, many in nautical dress.
Eco-terrorists have placed PVC bombs with mercury detonators in the lock cans of metal gates that block access to forest roads to all those without keys, the story goes. Reach into the metal bell-like covering for the gate’s lock and, boom, there goes your hand.
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