Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle.
The fruit’s striking colouring is thought to be caused by a random genetic mutation at odds of more than a million to one.
The apple has caused such a stir in [...]
In what firefighters described as a once-in-a-lifetime call, officials with the Costa Mesa Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue squad were summoned early Tuesday morning to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach to save another man’s penis from perishing.
The man, whom authorities declined to identify, other than saying that he was in his 50s, [...]
New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.
Newark police say 25-year-old Shaheed Wright of East Orange put several baggies of cocaine inside his son’s jacket after police nearly caught him with it. The boy shared the drugs with three other [...]
Danny Bampton’s compassion for animals cost him his life.
Investigators say the 9-year-old St. Charles County boy was riding with his
mother on Highway P near a relative’s house Wednesday afternoon when he saw an injured duck in the road and asked her whether he could save it. After she pulled the car over, Danny hopped out [...]
The “chicken underground” is on the march.
Gay-Ellen Stulp and Stephany Miskunas are lobbying the Lafayette City Council to allow them to keep pet chickens at their homes in the historic Highland Park neighborhood.
Stulp said she wants city council members to amend the ordinance that forbids having chickens in the city. The city council’s Public Health [...]
A WIFE is pregnant with TWELVE babies, it was claimed last night.
The unnamed mum-to-be – a teacher – is said to be defying medical advice by vowing to give birth to ALL six girls and six boys.
If she succeeds, her brood – conceived after fertility treatment – will smash the world record for multiple births.
The [...]
The people who attended 43-year-old Fernando Maldonado’s wake on June 1 said it was a horror show.
The viewing at La Paz Funeral Home on East 149th Street near Lincoln Hospital was delayed because of problems preparing the body. When the mourners filed in they weren’t prepared for what they saw.
Tears filled William Maldonado Jr.’s eyes [...]
As the Govt attempts to take over Healthcare for everyone in the country, here’s a lesson on things that could go wrong…
If it’s a medical emergency, Erie County 911 will respond, but there is one address many of its dispatchers know by heart.
They find Scott Graham usually waiting at that Buffalo address for his ambulance [...]
Recently Chastity Bono announced she was having surgery to become a man. A transgender center in Montgomery County is busier than ever. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has the exclusive story of one of the oldest patients to make the switch.
Renee Ramsey is recovering from the surgery that she’s been dreaming of for decades.
“Since I was [...]
Why would someone use ‘nail’ scissors to clean his teeth? Telegraph
Chinese surgeons saved a man’s life after he accidentally swallowed a pair of nail scissors he was using to clean his teeth.
These are the astonishing X-rays that show how surgeons saved a man’s life after he cut his throat with a pair of scissors – [...]