POSTED // Aug 15,2011 - Despite “overwhelming evidence” that smoking during pregnancy is harmful to a developing child, researchers at England’s Southampton University reported that some pregnant women smoke because they want smaller babies

POSTED // Aug 8,2011 - Kyle Richards, 21, an inmate at Michigan’s Macomb County jail, filed a lawsuit against Gov. Rick Snyder and the state, insisting he is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because jail rules prevent convicts from possessing erotic and pornographic materials.

POSTED // Aug 1,2011 - Russia’s largest retail bank has begun using automated teller machines with built-in lie detectors. Speech Technology Center developed the voice-analysis system for Sberbank to prevent consumer credit fraud by interrogating customers applying for credit at the ATMs.

POSTED // Jul 25,2011 - Noting that 20 percent of Germans use the erotic aids, 10 Green Party legislators in the Bundestag released a paper called “Sexual Health as a Consumer Protection Issue.”

POSTED // Jul 18,2011 - The first case of texting impairment caused by Botox has been reported by the journal Archives of Dermatology.

POSTED // Jul 11,2011 - A 39-year-old woman was injured when a tombstone at Ahavath Israel Cemetery in Hamilton, N.J., fell on her leg while she and a male companion were engaged in what police Capt. James Stevens termed “extracurricular activities.”

POSTED // Jul 4,2011 - One consequence of the deadlier-than-usual tornado season in the United States has been record-breaking sales for the roughly 100 companies that sell...

POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - A smartphone app led South Korean police to a murder suspect.

POSTED // Jun 21,2011 - Dan Reeves spent nine years and $40,000 building a two-seater, single-engine airplane in the basement of his home in Cumberland County, Pa., assembling pieces as they arrived.

POSTED // Jun 10,2011 - The boy was trying to show his dad a trick called “skitching,”