POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A 61-year-old man entered Milwaukee’s Uihlein Soccer Park shortly after noon, armed with what police said appeared to be a gun, and tried to hold up a woman in an office. When she told him that she had no money, he tried to mug a man whose wallet...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - According to urban legend, while garlic oil is harmless when consumed, it’s lethal if it gets into your bloodstream. Supposedly, this is why mafiosi used to coat their bullets in garlic oil'so if the shot was off-center and hit your shoulder or...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police investigating a break-in at a television and appliance store in Middletown, Ohio, learned that the thieves had made off with a Hitachi flat-panel TV. Moments later, other officers noticed a Mercury Sable going down the road with a 55-inch flat-screen...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - My aunt recently died. When I asked about the funeral details, I was told that there would be no graveside service because my aunt had donated her body to science. Nobody seemed to know the details, so I turn to you. How do you donate your body to science?...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Federal authorities said that Gary E. Peel, 62, a lawyer in Madison County, Ill., had an affair with a 16-year-old girl who was his sister-in-law, then 32 years later tried to use sexually explicit photographs of the girl to leverage his ex-wife out of...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I hate shaving every day. What would happen if I used one of those temporary hair-removal products on my face? What about the permanent ones? 'Dan, Merrick, New York, via e-mail For a minute there I thought I had the perfect solution'castration! No...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Los Angeles police investigating the hit-and-run deaths of two homeless men learned that the men had millions of dollars in life insurance. The policies had been taken out by Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, who police said aroused suspicion...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police in Broken Arrow, Okla., arrested James Otis Denham, 49, after he tried to sell a Rembrandt etching at a bar. The rightful owner’s name was still on a document authenticating the 1630 etching, titled “The Raising of Lazarus” and...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I’d like the Straight Dope on one of the great controversies: Who was first to reach the north pole? I lean towards Robert Peary because of Frederick Cook’s background, but is it that simple? 'Richard, via e-mail Not unless you’ll...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police in the German town of Paderborn reported that thieves broke into an auto-repair shop and sliced open the roof of a convertible in an attempt to steal it. They left, according to the newspaper Bild am Sonntag, after they couldn’t start the...