POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Early this morning after a night of drinking I woke up and really had to pee. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. But what happens if I don’t? Is there a long-term health risk if I regularly choose to hold it? If alcohol is thrown...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Maria Bergan, who is 23 and legally old enough to drink in Ohio, used a stolen driver’s license to prove her age at a bar in Westlake. The waitress she presented it to, Kathryn Mooney, 22, recognized it as hers. She had reported it stolen three...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I would love to believe the legends about the Mandan Indians, reputed to have descended from an ill-fated colony of Welshmen who arrived in ships in the 1100s. Their leader was a prince named Madoc. Is there something to this? 'Bill Morse, Whitefish...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - New York City police received an obscenity-filled letter containing white powder that taunted, “Ha, Ha [you] thought it was anthrax,” and ended with “Catch me if you can.” Officers promptly arrested Abdullah Date, 18, because the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We’re all taught in B-school that market prices are determined by supply and demand. I can’t for one minute believe this is true of crude-oil prices. Demand appears to be static (that is, static at a given moment, although steadily increasing...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Austrian authorities arrested a 34-year-old man who tried to rob a bank in Poggersdorf, only to discover that it wasn’t a bank but a municipal building. The robber believed it was a bank because he saw an automatic teller machine in the lobby, but...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - On a recent visit to Chicago, I noticed that Lake Michigan, close to shore, looks more like the waters of the Caribbean (crystal clear, light aqua color). When I grew up in the city years ago, the lake was just a bucket of sludge. I’m told the change...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Philadelphia police arrested Verlin Alexander, 22, after he flagged down a patrol car to explain that he wasn’t the person in surveillance photos being circulated of a robbery and sexual assault suspect. Alexander admitted that the suspect looked...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - This morning as I was shaving in the shower I read the ingredients list on my can of shaving cream and was astounded to see nonoxynol-9 among the various other chemicals (stearic acid, sodium laureth sulfate, etc.). I happen to know that nonoxynol-9 is...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police responding to a robbery alarm at an Orlando, Fla., bank had no trouble identifying Kenneth Ray Brooks as their suspect after witnesses said they saw his pants shoot fire. Besides his obvious discomfort, officers noticed that both his hands were...