SYDNEY, Australia – Wallabies snacking in Tasmania’s legally grown opium poppy fields are getting “high as a kite” and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said. Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials’ antics in a brief on the state’s [...]

DALLAS – A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat belt violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under [...]

Added risk is tied to red meat and dairy products, study finds FRIDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — Fat from red meat and dairy products can increase your risk for pancreatic cancer, researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute report. Pancreatic cancer, which is usually fatal, is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the [...]

Stem cell researchers in New York can now use public money to pay women who give their eggs for research, a decision that has opened new possibilities for science but raised concern among some bioethicists and opponents of such research. The decision by the Empire State Stem Cell Board, announced two weeks ago, is believed [...]

DALLAS, June 26 — Obese adolescents get the same benefits from bariatric surgery as their older counterparts, data from two studies showed. In follow-up for as long as six years, adolescents maintained at least as much of their original weight loss as older patients did, Nestor de la Cruz-Munoz, MD, reported here at the American [...]

BROWNSBURG, Indiana – An Indiana man arrested Monday night was accused of stabbing his estranged wife to death while his two daughters, 12 and 8, hid in a closet. Authorities said the older girl called police and told a dispatcher, “Daddy killed Mommy.” Joseph L. Warnock, 41, was arrested about 9 p.m. in the same [...]

ATLANTA – Eric Mongerson’s kids couldn’t meet his partner of two years, much less join the couple for ice cream. His friends couldn’t cheer on the children at concerts or Little League baseball games. The divorced dad spent thousands of dollars fighting an unusual ban imposed by a county judge in 2007 that kept the [...]

If this works half as well as listed on the product page I would shell out the money for a covert bullet proof/slash proof hoodie. According to the site it can block these types of bullet evel to NIJ STD 0101.04 level 111A The armour protects against 9mm Full Metal Jacket Round Nose (FMJRN) projectiles, [...]

A Miami law is forcing many of the city’s sex offenders to sleep rough under a bridge, reports Emilio San Pedro for the BBC’s Americana programme. As many as 70 released sex offenders live in the camp The area under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in downtown Miami has in recent years become the unlikely home [...]

Meteorologists in Japan are puzzled by a recent series of downpours – not heavy rain, but fish and tadpoles falling from the sky. Japan may be deep in recession and facing a crucial election, and just over the horizon North Korea may be threatening to fire a missile overhead, but animals raining from the heavens [...]