An overweight woman in the U.S. posted a picture of herself in a bikini on the net, received with mostly supportive comments.Stella Boonshoft, a college student in New York, spotted photographer Brandon Stanton on the street and asked him if she could take a picture of him. In return, Stanton asked her to take a picture of her and later he uploaded it on his website.Boonshoft said she burst into tears when she first saw the positive comments on her picture. It is now also posted on her own blog.

Oct. 23, 2012

A Michigan couple, using a Halloween theme for their wedding, said they dressed as zombies to exchange vows.“It‘s was a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Todd Lambert said. “It’s really unconventional. That was the whole point.”Lambert and Amanda Cusumano of Monroe County were married Saturday at the Carleton home of his parents by Eric Drummond, a pastor who dressed as Sherlock Holmes, the Monroe (Mich.) Evening News reported Monday.Lambert, 40, said he and Cusumano, 30, had both been married before i

Oct. 23, 2012

A pair of best friends from Wakefield, Mass., have taken to hiding $20 bills each day around the Boston-area with the hopes of brightening a stranger‘s day.Steven Grant and Richard Cook began hiding the bills over a year ago, the Boston Globe reported.“Everybody could use 20 bucks,” Cook, a psychiatrist, said.Over the last year, Cook and Grant have given away more than $7,000. They provide daily updates on their website and send out Twitter alerts to let their 2,100 followers know where the cash

Oct. 22, 2012

A Utah teenager died a day after she was found buried in the sand at Snow Canyon State Park, officials said.Whitney Webb, 15, died Saturday at Primary Children‘s Medical Center, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.The teenager was at Snow Canyon State Park with her family Friday, playing with her younger siblings who were partially burying her in a hole about four feet deep, said Shauna Jones, of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.When the family was getting ready to leave, they got as far as the

Oct. 22, 2012

Fathers who don‘t pay their child support could find their faces printed on pizza boxes, said a top Russian court official.Russia already publishes photos of deadbeat dads on billboards, on banners, in the media and on the Internet, Itar-Tass reported Friday.The idea of adding the images to pizza boxes arose during a recent meeting of bailiffs, said Chief Russian Bailiff Artur Parfenchikov. Such a proposal is within the law, he said.Only those parents who are on a wanted list for unpaid child su

Oct. 22, 2012

Prosecutors say they‘ve charged a Florida man with illegally importing dinosaur fossils from Asia, including one that sold for more than $1 million at auction.Federal agents arrested Eric Prokopi at his home in Gainesville, Fla., Wednesday, CNN reported.“Our investigation uncovered a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.Prokopi, whose business Everything Earth sells dinosaur skeletons, allegedly conspired to smuggle prehistoric d

Oct. 18, 2012

Police in Florida say they arrested a man accused of fighting with a restaurant manager after having sex with his date on a table in front of other patrons.Orlando police said Tom Murphy, the manager at Paddy Murphy‘s restaurant in Orlando, called police after Jeremie Calo, 32, and his date were seen having sex on their table out on the patio while other patrons, including children, were eating in the same area, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported Wednesday.Murphy said the couple stopped when he called p

Oct. 18, 2012

A Texas company has created special baggies for cleaning up dog poop that feature images of the presidential candidates.Therapoo, which launched in September, sells designer dog-poo bags, some of which feature the likeness of Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, KTVT, Dallas-Fort Worth, reported.“Just in time to cast your vote and your dog, too,” the company said in a news release. “The entrepreneurs at Therapoo fancy themselves as your poo-litical action committee with a n

Oct. 15, 2012

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he still hopes to salvage his marriage despite admitting multiple affairs, including one in which fathered a child with the family housekeeper.And, in a tell-all memoir published Monday, he insists he is “still in love” with Maria Shriver, his wife of 25 years who filed for divorce after he admitted he was the child‘s father.The Hollywood star and former California governor said the fling with the housekeeper -- which produced a baby boy at almost the same time as his

Oct. 2, 2012

(123rf)The U.K. police said the location of a math teacher and his female student is still a mystery.Megan Stammers, 16, had been in a relationship with her married teacher, Jeremy Forrest, for the last seven months. News reports disclosed that Megan also has an extra-curricular tutorial at another school where Forrest taught.Megan’s friends and her school were fully aware what was going on with t

Sept. 26, 2012