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  • Talking Points: Tough smoking cure, tallest building, Thailand reality TV star

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

    How far will a California woman go to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez hit Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Campoy in the face this week in her quest to kick the habit. The stunt got Lopez sentenced to 63 days in jail, where smoking is not allowed. Lopez spotted Campoy in his uniform as...

  • Talking Points: What's the best car around?

    Talking Points

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    What's the best car around? Consumer Reports says it's the all-electric Tesla Model S, to which it recently bestowed the rare honor of a near-perfect score: 99 points out of 100. The only other car to achieve that rank was the Lexus LS. The magazine tested a $90,000 version of the Tesla, but...

  • Talking Points: Caribbean waters, back pain fix, what bears do

    Talking Points

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    What kind of impact could global warming have on the Caribbean? Citizens in parts of Grenada are already pulling back from beachfront homes as the water rises and storms become more deadly. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the economic hit from Hurricane Ivan, which damaged...

  • Talking Points: Facebook stalking, 'Top Gerbil,' the cost of humility

    Eric P. Newcomer

    Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

    Why would someone create a Facebook account to stalk themselves? That's what a 52-year-old Michigan woman did in an attempt to get back at an ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. Cheryl Nelson complained to the Kent County Sheriff's Department that she was being harassed and stalked. Then it...

  • Talking Points: Dressed for irony, weighty bikers, rubber duckie

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, May 4, 2013

    What did a man wear into a Florida jail? There's nothing better than irony and fashion. A Florida man who was arrested for welfare fraud was picked up in an undercover sting while wearing a shirt that said "Jail Sucks!" Police in Manatee County, Fla., arrested 40 in an undercover sting on...

  • Talking Points: Twerking, suicide rates and New Zealand's baby names

    Talking Points

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    What is 'Twerking?' Twerking is a popular modern dance with moves so sexually suggestive that 33 San Diego high school students were recently suspended for using school equipment to make a video of themselves doing the dance. The dance, which involves the shaking hips and bottoms, is believed...

  • Talking Points: Sticky fingers, purse puppy, truly eternal

    Talking Points

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Is it true Spider-Man is actually a thief? Los Angeles police are indeed searching for Spider-Man, or more specifically a man in a Spider-Man costume, for stealing $6,000 from a tour company office on Hollywood Boulevard. The suspect also made off with credit card receipts. Hollywood's Walk of...

  • Talking Points: Unclaimed $40 million, pothole prize, more medical money

    Talking Points

    Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    What is the story behind the unclaimed $40 million in New York? It's not in the lost and found; the money is the estate of Roman Blum, a Staten Island real estate developer and Holocaust survivor who died last year without a will. According to news reports, he has no blood relatives, having...


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