POSTED // Aug 13,2012 - Zookeepers at Indonesia’s Taru Jurug Zoo moved a female orangutan out of sight of visitors to stop her from smoking lit cigarettes that people throw into her cage.

POSTED // Aug 6,2012 - A Government Accountability Office review of the current military Base Realignment and Closure program found that its estimated implementation cost had risen from $21 billion when it was approved in 2005 to $35 billion

POSTED // Jul 30,2012 - The company that was awarded a $442 million contract to provide security for the London Olympic Games admitted, mere weeks before the event, that it couldn’t provide the required number of guards it agreed to

POSTED // Jul 23,2012 - Louisiana is issuing publicly funded vouchers for the coming school year that will allow thousands of children to attend private schools where they will learn that Scotland’s Loch Ness monster is real.

POSTED // Jul 16,2012 - Charles Marshall, 28, was arrested for the fourth time in the past two years for having sex with a teddy bear

POSTED // Jul 9,2012 - Homeowner Sherry Bush reported that while she and her husband were away and their daughter was sleeping upstairs, someone broke into their home in Westlake, Ohio, took out the trash,

POSTED // Jul 2,2012 - Japanese scientists have developed goggles designed to curb appetites by making food appear to be as much as 50 percent larger than actual size.

POSTED // Jun 25,2012 - Navy investigators indicated a fire onboard a nuclear-powered submarine that injured seven people while it was in dry dock at Maine’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard started in a vacuum cleaner used to clean work sites

POSTED // Jun 18,2012 - Congressional investigators accused the Transportation Security Administration of “wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars” by warehousing body scanners rather than deploying them to commercial airports.

POSTED // Jun 11,2012 - Robots are being taught to write news stories. Programmers at Chicago-based Narrative Science have developed computer algorithms that initially produced rote summaries of sports games and stock market data