The Raconteurs – Many Shades of Black (Acoustic)

Woman continues treasure hunt after finding note The Associated Press QUINCY, Ill. — A western Illinois postal worker’s hunt for supposedly buried treasure continues in Springfield. Patty Henken launched the search recently when she was refinishing an antique chair and found a key in an envelope with a note promising $250 in U.S. gold coins […]

Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo LOS ANGELES – Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture. A photo on the Seattle-based company’s U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and […]

Sock It To Me! Ariz. Man Finds 12 Pairs Of Socks Snatched From Clothesline In Back Yard (AP)  Someone must have really needed some socks. A southern Arizona man is out a dozen pairs of socks after someone sneaked into his back yard early Monday and stole socks off a clothesline. He told the Cochise […]

Swine flu inspires new video game By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Monday, August 17, 2009 (08-17) 09:24 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — Since swine flu first emerged in April, it has sparked panic, vaccine production and now, a video game. In an effort to raise awareness, Dutch researchers have created a game that […]

Italian hotel mistakenly offers 1-cent weekend ROME — You had to be quick, but what a deal. A four-star hotel near Venice mistakenly offered the ultimate low-cost vacation – a romantic weekend in the Italian lagoon city for 1 euro cent. Not surprisingly, the Crowne Plaza in Quarto D’Altino, 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) from Venice, […]

Man spotted riding bicycle with gator on shoulders BOUTTE, La. – The 3-foot-long alligator on a bicyclist’s shoulders was a real attention-getter. St. Charles Parish sheriff’s deputies stopped the cyclist. He allegedly ran, leaving both wheels and his toothy little rider. Capt. Pat Yoes, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said deputies booked 38-year-old Terron […]

Tenn. Wal-Mart Worker Bitten On The Arm After Confronting Customer About Shoplifting (AP)  Police said a Wal-Mart employee was bitten while confronting a customer about shoplifting. Officers said a 44-year-old woman bit the employee on the arm while trying to leave the store’s garden center Tuesday afternoon without paying for items in her purse. The […]

FRASER, Mich. (AP) — A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her. When she refused, Fraser police Lt. Dan Kolke told WWJ-AM he hit her […]

34 hospitalized after co-worker sprays perfume Investigators don’t know what type was sprayed FORT WORTH, Texas – At first, fire officials suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center. It turned out that perfume was to blame. MedStar ambulance spokeswoman Lara Kohl says […]