POSTED // Dec 31,2012 - Someone did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.

POSTED // Dec 21,2012 - The Weather Channel announced it is “the first national organization in North America to proactively name winter storms.” TWC, which claims a 76 percent share of the U.S. weather audience, assumes other media

POSTED // Dec 17,2012 - Official efforts to stop the spread of the voracious, invasive snakefish—aka “Frankenfish” and “rattlesnakes with fins”—having failed, the next tactic is eating them to extinction.

POSTED // Dec 10,2012 - After receiving $29 million in federal stimulus money, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered a harbor built on the Aleutian island of Akutan.

POSTED // Dec 3,2012 - New York and New Jersey victims of Hurricane Sandy complained their cleanup efforts are interrupted by disaster tourists, who’re drawn by curiosity to the real-life scenes of tragedy shown on television.

POSTED // Nov 26,2012 - A Connecticut jury convicted Anthony Johnson, 49, of stealing up to $70,000 a week by crawling beneath seats in darkened movie theaters to remove credit cards from women’s pocketbooks.

POSTED // Nov 19,2012 - Operating under bankruptcy protection, American Airlines paid $40,000—a year’s salary—to each of the 2,205 flight attendants who accepted its buyout offers.

POSTED // Nov 12,2012 - After serving as mayor of River Falls, Ala., for three decades, Mary Ella Hixon, 91, resigned and pleaded guilty to stealing $201,000 from the town.

POSTED // Nov 5,2012 - The religious tax option renders more than $4 billion a year unto Germany's Catholic and Protestant churches.

POSTED // Oct 29,2012 - Noting that freelance donors suggest impregnation by intercourse is easier and more reliable than artificial injection