By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
May 9, 2008
Ohio's State House speaker is trying to impeach Attorney General Marc Dann amid a sex scandal, but needs help from the most unlikely of sources: Dann's investigators.
Speaker Jon Husted says his legislative body isn't equipped to run the type of impeachment investigation usually handled by the attorney general.
Officials at Midway Airport in Chicago have set up a tripartite slalom system when going through security lines - a green line for beginners, a blue line for intermediate travelers and a black line for experienced fliers.
The idea is to separate those who know to take their shoes off, remove laptop computers from cases and not carry liquids from those who haven't a clue.
As if the world wasn't cluttered with enough advertising, a California entrepreneur has come up with a way to create fake clouds shaped like corporate logos that can float up to 20,000 feet in the air.
The shapes are made from tiny soapy bubbles filled with helium and can float for 30 miles before dissipating.
Vancouver's Brent Case miraculously escaped the clutches of an 800-pound grizzly bear that bit him on the head, and drove himself 50 miles to a hospital.
He had to get dozens of stitches over the back of his head and arm.
"He's a pretty smart guy and he kept his face down when it was happening, so he doesn't have any damage to his face," said his son, Dean.
Swedish automaker Saab admits it used human cadavers as crash-test dummies.
"For certain things, it's important to use cadavers. The tests involved people who had donated their own bodies," said Claes Tingvall, a car-safety specialist.
