News of the Weird

In July, Charles Diez was charged with attempted murder for his reaction to a bicyclist who was carrying his 3-year-old son on the bike unsafely on a busy Asheville, N.C., street. According to police,...

News of the Weird

In September, engaging in a 300-year tradition of the Dussera holiday in India's Tamil Nadu state, Hindu priests ritually whipped 2,000 young women and girls over a five-hour period as penance for a r...

News of the Weird

Vincent Salters, 46, was arrested in East Knoxville, Tenn., in November after having shoplifted shoes the day before from the Shoe Show store. He had dashed out hurriedly with several display shoes, b...

News of the Weird

Dr. Hulda Clark, 80, passed away in September of multiple myeloma, an advanced cancer of the plasma cells. Before she was stricken, she had authored three books touting her eccen­tric remedies as cure...

News of the Weird

From a police report in the North Bay (Ontario) Nugget (Nov. 7): An officer at a traffic light, realizing that cars had not moved through two light changes, walked up to the lead car to investigate. T...

News of the Weird

Brier Cutlip, 22, and Paul Bragg, 25, who were on parole and prohibited from possessing firearms, were rearrested in December in Elkins, W.Va., when they showed up for a parole appointment. However, t...

News of the Weird

Three men were convicted in August in Kansas City, Mo., of having convinced "numerous" customers to buy 3-by-4-inch laminated "diplomat" cards that, promoters said, would legally free them from ever h...