Nurses are expected to be the gentle gatekeeper at a hospital, often providing a contrast to overly busy and sometimes uncaring doctors. So this English nurse allegedly having sex with the husbands of recently deceased cancer patients seems like a natural, albeit completely horrible, extension of a nurse’s duties.
Shamed Macmillan nurse Sara Dale cared for [...]

A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio is trying to tempt college kids into trading their Bibles for pornography.
It’s part of a program called Smut for Smut sponsored by the student organization called Atheist Agenda.
On Monday, MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson welcomed the group’s president, Thomas Jackson, to ‘The Situation.” [...]

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a “big lie” used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.
Ahmadinejad’s comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed [...]

All-night gaming binges are harmless in moderation, but this week one married Korean couple discovered the awful consequences of letting virtual life overtake real responsibilities.
The pair — who were hooked on an online game called “Prius,” where they were raising a virtual daughter — were arrested by Korean police this week and charged with failing [...]

The disappearances of 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King illustrate a sad fact: not all missing children cases are treated the same.
Chelsea disappeared Feb. 25, last seen in a park with running clothes. The case sparked a search involving about 1,500 law enforcement officials and thousands of volunteers. It ended five days later when [...]

She was a frosty Venus de Milo, but one Rahway family’s snow-packed tribute to the Greek goddess of love and beauty was another person’s pornography.
Maria Conneran and her family worked feverishly to fashion their armless, nude snowlady from last week’s heap of snow, grabbing attention and photographs on Rahway’s Colonia Boulevard.
Not all the attention was [...]

The District’s largest private hospital has fired 11 nurses and five support staff members who failed to make it to work during the back-to-back snowstorms that paralyzed the region earlier this month.
Dozens of staff members at Washington Hospital Center face internal investigations, union representatives say, and it is unclear how many employees will lose their [...]

O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul: They aren’t considered role models by most African Americans, but they were celebrated by students at a South L.A. elementary school for Black History Month.
Three local school teachers at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles have been removed from their classrooms and are under investigation in a [...]

Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.
Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM’-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch.
However, family [...]

It’s not every day a clown breaks into your home, tosses a blanket over you and then scampers off with your computer.
That was the story Ogden police got when they went to investigate a burglary and theft, though. One of the suspects literally looked like a rather scary harlequin — and detectives know who they [...]

The museum curator was well-known for his tall tales in the Dutch art community and was widely mocked for filling his personal collection with forgeries.
“This discovery is not an attribution but an absolute certainty,” he assured his peers to guffaws. But 25 years after his death, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has said the notorious fantasist [...]

Carrie Prejean isn’t the only beauty queen open to expressing her objection to same-sex marriage. Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials, Fox News reported.
“The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Ms Ashley told Fox News.
“In Leviticus it says: ‘If man lies [...]

Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.
“The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition,” which was published [...]

The Metro Transit Police continue to investigate the beating of a 15-year-old girl late last month in the transit tunnel at Westlake Center.
Three security guards saw the Jan. 28 assault, part of which was filmed by surveillance cameras. But the guards aren’t armed and are trained not to get involved in physical confrontations, according to [...]

A Stark County man is facing a felony child endangering charge for allegedly tattooing a 1-year-old girl, Fox 8 News reports.
Lee Deitrick, 20, is accused of putting the non-removable tattoo on the child’s backside while she was visiting his house with a female relative in November. Deitrick is not the girl’s father.