Jeremy Taylor
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‘Sleep Texting’ Is Now a Thing Among Teenagers
Being a teenager is a perilous time in one's life as a not-quite fully developed brain will cause the teen to make all kinds of questionable decisions.
Now thanks to a new phenomenon called sleep-texting, the teenager can even make these bad decisions while they are catching z's.
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Homeless Man Returns Diamond Ring Mistakenly Dropped In His Change Cup
For a moment, homeless man Billy Ray Harris thought it was his lucky day.
When he looked down into his change cup after a round of panhandling he noticed something really shiny among the coins and bills. It was a diamond and platinum ring, and a "big one" at that.
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Waiter Who Defended Boy With Down Syndrome Gives All Donations To Charity
Last month, Michael Garcia made a lot of people smile. The 45-year-old, who is a waiter at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, Texas, refused to serve a family who insulted Milo Castillo, a five-year-old with Down Syndrome, by suggesting that "special needs children need to be special someplace else."
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Deceased Husband Wins Valentine’s Day With Romantic Gesture From Beyond the Grave
For 46 years, Sue Johnston had a pretty good idea what she'd be getting on Valentine's Day. Each February 14 her husband John would give her a bouquet of flowers with a note that read "My love for you grows."
Sadly, John passed away two years ago in April. 10 months later, Johnston received Valentine's Day flowers from somebody named John. At first she thought it was a cruel joke.
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See the Cast of ‘Honey I Shrunk The Kids’ Then and Now
The title of the 1989 family comedy 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' pretty much explains the plot.
In the movie, an inventor played by Rick Moranis ends up shrinking his two children and two neighborhood kids to a quarter-of-an-inch tall and then has to figure out how to un-shrink them.
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Lay’s Unveils Chicken and Waffle, More Weird Flavors
In the past we've had some fun with the bizarrely-flavored potato chips that pop up overseas -- like the Pepsi and chicken crisps that are all the rage in China.
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‘You’re Not Invited’ Wedding Alerts Are Now a Thing
Wedding planning is already full of potential friendship traps. Who's going to be in the bridal party? Who gets invited with a date? Who sits where?
Thanks to a new trend in "you're not invited" alerts, now newlyweds-to-be can also thoroughly offend those who aren't necessarily in their inner circle.
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World’s Creepiest Mom French Kissed Jailed Son to Pass Him Drugs
Things got awkward when 54-year-old Kimberly Margeson visited her 30-year-old son William Partridge at the Yates County jail in upstate New York.
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Yes, There Was a Kinkajous Rampage In Texas
Move over Chupacabra. There is a new nasty mid-sized predator called a Kinkajous wrecking havoc in Texas.
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Dad Offers Teen $200 If He Quits Facebook For Five Months
Yesterday we learned that more and more people are taking long breaks from Facebook. If they're not getting paid for these social network hiatuses they may be doing it wrong.
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See the Cast of ‘The Big Green’ Then and Now
Like a slew of similar youth sports movies in the ‘90s, the soccer flick ‘The Big Green’ featured a team of misfits who overcame the odds to become champions.
In this case the odds were really stacked against the tykes, as they didn't even know the rules of soccer at first
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Have You Taken a Break From Facebook? Many Have
If Facebook was anything like Friendster and MySpace it would be only available in Malaysia or reduced to a Justin Timberlake vanity product.
Yes, the Harvard-born social network has beat the odds and looks like it will be around for the long-haul. In fact, the latest debate surrounding Facebook is what happens to a member's page when they die.