News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
Muslims Find School Kosher About half the students who attend the Jewish primary school King David, in Birmingham, England, are Muslims, and in fact, their parents work hard to get them i...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
A California School's Racial Pep Rallies  Mount Diablo High School (Concord, Calif.) students met in racial groups in February to prepare for upcoming statewide tests, to motivate them to imp...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
Touring the World's Greatest Slums The Kibera neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Dahravi section of Mumbai, India, are two of the planet's most appalling slums, but residents have re...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
A political appeal to the Finnish Klingon community A political appeal to the Finnish Klingon community ... Plus, insurance against paper cuts, preferring babies with abnormalities, Egypt...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
A Tennessee prison tries to poach California inmates (The West Tennessee Detention Facility (Mason, Tenn.) made a video pitch for California inmates, hoping some would volunteer to be out...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
In March, a jury in Los Angeles listened to nine psychiatrists testify, along with other witnesses who openly described their sex lives, before finally deciding that neither party in the shrink-vs.-sh...

News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd
Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird (.995) WEEK OF MARCH 4, 2007 Muslims Find School Kosher About half the students who at...

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Registered sex offender Jason Lee, 28, was arrested in Cincinnati in February and charged with several counts of deception for his seemingly benevolent acts of posting bond for two female strangers wh...

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In July, St. Mary's Airport on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwest coast of England) posted a vacancy announcement for air traffic controller that added, helpfully, that applications were available...

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Paul Baldwin, 48, was ordered held on $10,000 bail in Portsmouth, N.H., in May after his arrest for stealing a can of beer, which seems expensive except that it was Baldwin's 152nd arrest. When a judg...