While players rush to purchase tickets for an upcoming Powerball jackpot, it’s a good time to think back to the odd case of Denise Rossi, where one woman’s greed caused her to forfeit her winnings entirely. Rossi’s prize - $1.3 million - may be far lower than the projected jackpot of $1 billion in this week’s Powerball draw, but it is still a life…

A Florida family in Tampa were mauled by their pet dog, a pit bull cross, after they tried to put a sweater on him, according to local authorities. The incident occurred last Friday (December 30) when 52-year old Brenda Guerrero went outside her family’s home in the 3400 block of Cord Street around 2:30 p.m. She was concerned about the low…

A heroic service dog saved the day by dialing 911 and pulling her blind owner to safety after the home they shared in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia caught fire on Thursday morning. Yolanda, a golden retriever, called 911 on a specialized phone and alerted authorities about the blaze and firefighters responded. They were able to rescue…

A woman from Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has been charged with forcing a 4-year old boy to ‘eat laxatives and hot sauce’, according to local media reports. Authorities claim that the woman first bound the child, before she "fed him a laxative concoction” and then made him drink hot sauce without water. The child was also allegedly kept…

A 19-year old student in the UK town of Brighton has made headlines after he reportedly went on a deranged frenzy after overdosing on the popular party drug mephedrone, known by its street name “meow meow”. According to local media reports, the man who has not been named was rushed to the Royal Sussex County along with his mother, also not named.…

In the world of horse racing, once a horse reaches the end of its professional career, it very seldom has the opportunity for a quiet and peaceful retirement. Once they grow too old or become too injured to continue competing, most owners opt to put their horses down rather than bear the cost of maintaining an animal that will bring in no further…

Two decades before terrorists hijacked planes in the United States and flew them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, a deranged pilot in the Australian outback carried out a similar destructive mission with horrifying results. The Connellan Air Disaster, as it became known, has been all but forgotten by all but those involved in the tragedy…

The German branch of Ketchup manufacturer Heinz was left red-faced after a QR code on a bottle took a consumer to a hardcore porn website. As reported by German media, a consumer in Germany scanned a QR code on his ketchup bottle in 2015 which was meant to be the link to a promotional page about designing his own label. Instead, the link took him…