The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil complaint against eBay, claiming the online marketplace unlawfully sold and distributed hundreds of thousands of products like pesticides and motor vehicle emission-evading devices that violate environmental laws. The complaint Wednesday claims eBay sold, offered for sale or caused the sale of…
Read MoreThe Guinness Book of World Records finally has a name to fill the slot for “world’s oldest competitive motorcycle racer”: Leslie Harris. In February of this year, New Zealand native Harris was three weeks shy of his 98th birthday when he took part in the The Pukekohe 43rd…
Read MoreLast year, a team of German students set a world record for the fastest-accelerating electric car, pulling 2.5Gs while reaching 62 mph (100km/h) in a staggering 1.461 seconds. Now, that record has been shattered by another team of students from Switzerland, whose car just crossed the one-second threshold.…
Read MoreA lunchtime ride in the family car on Interstate 15 in Utah to pick up tacos was abruptly interrupted Saturday when a whirling metal chair part crashed into the car’s windshield. Neither the driver nor any of the four passengers from the Eaton family were seriously injured by…
Read MoreROCHEPORT, Mo. — Onlookers online and on the banks of the Missouri River had to wait more than an hour to watch officials use explosives to drop a historic steel trestle bridge into the river that for years carried cars across the waterway along Interstate 70. The blast…
Read MoreFlorida man never fails to impress and entertain, but the most recent story out of the Sunshine State is on another level. The U.S. Coast Guard found Reza Baluchi, a marathon runner, 70 nautical miles off the coast of Georgia last month. While that wouldn’t usually be a…
Read MoreWe’ve all seen videos of someone calling for police to report what they consider is egregious behavior, then when the police show up, the police arrest the caller. As caught by Fox 10 Phoenix, recent events in Nebraska prove yet again that anyone requesting the long arm of…
Read MoreThere’s no shortage of old Ford Crown Victorias rolling around with a suspicious lean, but one Nebraska driver learned the hard way just how much B.S. the Norfolk Police Division will tolerate when it comes to proper loading of a vehicle. According to News Channel Nebraska, Lee Meyer…
Read MoreTORONTO — Police west of Toronto on Wednesday warned drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. Halton Regional Police said they received a call around 6:15 a.m. reporting the bee crates had come loose from a…
Read MoreInstead of enjoying the mellifluous tones of Lady Gaga or the bounce music of the Arctic Monkeys, some drivers of newer Ford F-150 pickups are hearing unexplained loud crashing sounds, the noise of shattering glass, or high-pitched static through the cockpit’s speakers. This phenomenon has prompted more than…
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