It was a chance encounter of historic proportions.
Two women who found themselves sharing a room in a nursing home in Seattle discovered they had ancestors with a shared past.
One traces her roots back to Meriwether Lewis, leader of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery expedition to the Northwest. The other is a direct descendant of Comcomly, the Indian chief who met and helped the tattered party as it staggered along the Columbia River.
When FedEx workers opened some leaking packages addressed to Richard Leutheuser of Kirkwood, Mo., they were appalled to find an arm and two legs, each wrapped separately and covered with dry ice.
Leutheuser, a swimming pool builder, had a explanation – as a sideline he stores and brokers human body parts donated to science in his home.
Local officials have asked him to move his body business from his home to a more appropriate location.
Moose are roaming the streets of Anchorage, Alaska and dipping into Dumpsters and ripping open plastic garbage bags in search of dinner.
It’s a big problem, notes government biologist Jessy Coltrane, explaining, “When moose start getting into garbage they’re almost worse than bears because they’re pretty persistent about it.”
Here’s a new twist on gun control.
The town council in the tiny prairie town of Geuda Springs, Kan. – population 210 – recently passed an ordinance requiring the heads of most households to own a gun and ammo or face a $10 fine.
But before the locals could strap on their gunbelts, the mayor shot down the plan. He took the law into his own hands – and tore it up.
A salvage yard worker in Des Moines, Iowa opened the trunk of a junked car and found two etched tombstones and the ashes of a third person.
The car had been impounded by the city and sold to the salvage yard.
Despite names on the two tombstones and an address on the box of cremains, local cops haven’t yet figured out who they belong to – or how they ended up in the car trunk.