POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Now that the Tribune has left for The Gateway and will no longer be fouling our air at Murphy’s or Monk’s, can you give them some heartfelt suggestions as to where they can now hang out or nosh?Ben Fulton: Everyone who’s ever ventured...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I’m getting mixed signals on a story about the great Native American leader Geronimo. According to various references, his bones were stolen from his grave in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was a prisoner until his death. Some accounts claim they...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies in Yavapai County, Ariz., reported that a man who was housesitting for his father encountered an intruder standing naked in an upstairs room holding two rifles belonging to the homeowner. The man said that...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I was reading a Wikipedia article about two-time Medal of Honor winners the other day, one of whom was General Smedley Butler. He claimed to have unmasked the “business plot,” also known as the “White House putsch,” a scheme to...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies in Lancaster County, Neb., had few leads in a rural home burglary until IBM called two weeks later to report that someone had called its toll-free technical-support number for help booting up a ThinkPad....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Is it true the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 because the ship ran out of beer? I have been told that barrels of beer were the most voluminous and important item in the hold because water couldn’t stay drinkable on a ship for...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - With shows like Lost and Gilligan’s Island, movies like Cast Away and Swiss Family Robinson, and books like Robinson Crusoe, I’ve been wondering: Are there documented cases of a person or persons being shipwrecked on an uncharted, deserted...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A police officer investigating a shoplifting at a supermarket in Stuart, Fla., recognized fugitive Ari Rayvon Stanberry, 22, who bolted and hid in the store’s freezer. By the time he was located, according to police Sgt. Marty Jacobson, “The...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Why is it that ancient Greek and Roman paintings, sculptures, and other works of art depict males with such small genitalia? My first thought was that the artists wished to draw the viewer’s attention to other, more important, aspects of the work....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - More hospital operating rooms play music, and the person usually charged with choosing the tunes is the anesthesiologist. Dr. Doug Reinhart, an anesthesiologist in Ogden, Utah, surveyed 301 members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, who mentioned...