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

POSTED // Oct 22,2012 - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gerber Legendary Blades announced a voluntary recall of 119,000 Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machetes that were marketed to zombie killers on last fall’s season opener of The Walking Dead television series.

POSTED // Oct 15,2012 - The Wreck Beach Preservation Society asked municipal officials in Vancouver, British Columbia, to ban ogling at Vancouver’s best-known nude beach.

POSTED // Oct 8,2012 - A woman drove her husband to the police station because he was "talking stupidly" and swearing.

POSTED // Oct 1,2012 - Following New York City’s ban on sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces, planners announced they hope to address the city’s growing population of singles and two-person households

POSTED // Sep 24,2012 - The instructor publicly exposing her genitals, exposing her buttocks and requesting that students examine a boil

POSTED // Sep 17,2012 - Authorities who know Richard Henry Bain, 61, the man accused of opening fire at a political rally in Montreal, described him as “a little eccentric” because he wore a kilt.