Jav Turkey

A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury in Saturday's mishap, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others worked to help him.

The 33-year-old McGeeney, an ex-Marine who spent six months in Afghanistan, was taking pictures of the discus event and apparently wandered into off-limits area set aside for the javelin throw.

Much of the javelin was cut off at the scene. The piece in McGeeney's leg was removed at a hospital, and he received 13 stitches.

The javelin was thrown by Anthony Miles, a Provo High School student who said when he saw what had happened, "my heart just stopped." With a subsequent throw, Miles went on to win the state title in javelin for teams in Provo High's size classification, 4-A.

"One of the first things that came to my mind was, 'Good thing we brought a second javelin,'" Miles' coach, Richard Vance said.

Of Mice And....Tasmanian Tigers

DNA from an extinct creature has been resurrected in a live animal for the first time. The genetic material, extracted from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, proved functional in mice.

The last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in 1936 in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. This enigmatic marsupial carnivore was hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century.

In fact, a study last year hinted at the possibility that the creatures might still exist, but the evidence was not conclusive.

Fortunately, some thylacine young were preserved in alcohol in several museum collections around the world, as were tissues from adults, such as in pelts.

This research might prove especially helpful now, "at a time when extinction rates are increasing at an alarming rate, especially of mammals," Marilyn Renfree added.

The Knux - Cappuccino

So Fresh And So Clean

A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

"We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean."

James O'Neal

James O’Neal compares himself to John Hurt’s character in the 1980 film “The Elephant Man.”

A genetic disease known as neurofibromatosis has left O’Neal’s face horribly disfigured, but several surgeries may be able to reconstruct his facial features.

O’Neal, of Kirkland, Wash., said he knows his deformity is shocking — but he refuses to hide like other people with his disorder.

“I just tell people this is who I am, it’s the way I am,” O’Neal told KOMONews.com. “If you don’t like me, you don’t like me.”

But O’Neal — who works as a cashier at Kingsgate Safeway — is well-liked by his customers.

How I Went Blind At The Grandview

From the eyes of Andy Sclight:

Your episode was weird as shit, I had to lead you out of the club like a blind fool with you groping my shoulder for guidance. You were just staring blankly at the stage and as soon as someone tried to talk to you you started blinking hard and saying you couldn't see shit, only white. And you're rationalization that, "it just happens sometimes" is ridiculous. How 'bout seizures happen sometimes, why don't you get that shit checked out or at least do some fishing on the internet as to what it may be.

-Peace.

What can I say....it happens. Right, Mark?
-Shep

Man Animals

A photograph of actor John Travolta signing an autograph for Drew Peterson, the prime suspect in fourth wife Stacy's disappearance, could end up being evidence in the weapons case brought against him by police.

Peterson was arrested last week on a gun violation charge for owning and using an assault rifle with a barrel shorter than required by state law.

On Thursday, his attorney released a photo of Peterson carrying the weapon in question as Travolta signed an autograph for him. Peterson had been assigned to protect the star while he was shooting the movie "Battlefield Earth."

"This photo should convince the state police that they've made a mistake with these charges," Joel A. Brodsky, Peterson's criminal defense attorney. Brodsky said the picture proves that his client did use the assault rifle while he was on duty as a sergeant.

Exterminate?!?!

Good Burn!

He just can't help the grunting. Nor can he help shouting "Woo-woo!" or "Great song!" or "Good burn," or — inexplicably, "You go, girl!"

That's what a spin-class workout is all about, hedge-fund manager Stuart Sugarman testified yesterday, taking the stand as the victim in the bizarre case of a New York City gym assault.

"These are words that would get me charged up and really come out automatically," Sugarman, 48, told a jury, "I try to get into the zone."

Manhattan prosecutors say that because of his annoying hooting and bellowing, Sugarman was brutally tipped up and off his exercise bike last summer by an irate stockbroker.

Both sides agree that Sugarman was loud - even Mark Selden (instructor) testified that Sugarman is the loudest "spinner" he's ever heard in some 1,700 workouts.

His antagonist, Christopher Carter, had been sitting two bikes down at an Equinox gym at 85th Street and Third Avenue and was ticked off by the distractions.

"He got off his bike and charged me like a football player would charge a training sled, and proceeded to lift my bike and I. The bike is about 150 pounds and I'm more than 200 pounds. He lifted the whole thing up and threw it and lifted it against the wall."

"He was looking up at me," Sugarman remembered. "And he held me up over his head. He looked at me and very loudly said, 'F' you. And then he dropped me."

Beef And Bacon Are Good For Your Heart

Matthew Blackwell’s heart is being held together by the tissues of a pig and a cow.

In the three years Matthew has been alive, he has been through two open heart surgeries, one of them the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, which has only been performed a few times in the world.

With the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, Matthew’s right ventricle and aorta were patched up using a mixture of animal and human donor tissue, according to the Web site.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4563001a22400.html

Iced Coffee - Now With More Kaffiyeh!!

Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. Critics who fueled online complaints about the ad in blogs say such scarves have come to symbolize Muslim extremism and murderous Palestinian jihad.

A statement issued by Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands Inc., however, said the scarf had a paisley design, and was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. "Absolutely no symbolism was intended," the company said.

A "Sign"

Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country's South Island, were flying up the sloping valley of Pelorus Sound when the engine spluttered, coughed and died.

"My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God's help," Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

He said he prayed during the ill-fated flight Sunday that the tiny craft would get over the top of a ridge and that they would find a landing site that was not too steep — or in the nearby sea.

"If it had to run out, that was the place to be," he said. "There was an instantaneous answer to prayer as we crossed the ridge and there was an airfield — I didn't know it existed till then."

After Wilson glided the powerless craft to a landing on the grassy strip, the pair noticed they were beside a 20-foot-tall sign that read, "Jesus is Lord — The Bible."

World Premiere Video

The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms

For Sale: Baby!

A woman browsing the classifieds Web site Craigslist on Friday called police after seeing an ad offering a seven-day-old baby for $10,000.

"A new baby girl, seven days old, healthy and very cute," read the ad. "Can't afford and unexpected. Looking for a good home. Please call ASAP."

Within hours of the woman's call, officers tracked the number of a stolen cell phone listed in the ad to an apartment in downtown Vancouver.

"Of course, the first thing out of their mouth is, they said it was just a hoax," Constable Tim Fanning said.

The baby's parents were arrested and released, and the baby was removed from the home.

The Green Lady?

This spectral vision was captured by 14-year-old Connor Bond at Tulloch Castle in Dingwall- in the Scottish highlands famed for its ghostly residents.

The ghoulish apparition was snapped by accident while the youngster and his family were attending a wedding at the castle.

Despite describing themselves as ‘sceptics’, Connor and dad Mike are now convinced the ghost they snapped is real and are hoping experts will examine it and prove them correct.

Mike, 52, from Inverness said: "We were at this wedding and Connor was walking around taking loads of photos. I think he took about 200 in total. After we loaded them up on to the computer we were looking through them and were just stopped in our tracks by this one shot.”

Tulloch Castle dates back to the 1200s and has a long history of ghostly activity. The most famous of them is the Green Lady who has been seen by dozens of people, and even has the castle’s bar named after her.

Mike added: "I just don’t see what else it could be - it’s a digital camera so you can’t accidentally double expose the shot and Connor swears there was no one around at the time.

A Better View Of The Pic: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1216051.ece

I Love The Photo Of The Day

...so she'll be up there all week.

Enjoy!

-Shep

10 Bats, 7 Helmets and 3 Bananas

During three years in the low minors, John Odom never really made a name for himself until he got traded for a bunch of bats. "I don't really care," he said Friday.

For now, Odom is headed to the Laredo Broncos of the United League. They got him Tuesday from the Calgary Vipers of the Golden Baseball League for a most unlikely price: 10 Prairie Sticks Maple Bats, double-dipped black, 34-inch, C243 style.

"They just wanted some bats, good bats, maple bats," Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said.

According to the Prairie Sticks Web site, their maple bats retail for $69 each, discounted to $65.50 for purchases of six to 11 bats.

The bat trade wasn't the first time Calgary came up with some creative dealmaking. The Vipers once tried to acquire a pitcher for 1,500 blue seats when they were renovating their stadium, Young said.

An Indoor War

One unlucky British teen suffered a painful shark attack without ever going near the water. In fact, he was bitten in the face by one of the sharp-fanged animals in his own bedroom, Metro.co.uk reported.

The “attack” happened at 14-year-old Sam Hawthorne’s home in Dudley, England.

Hawthorne was sleepwalking when the teeth of a dead souvenir shark from a family vacation, that hangs on the wall of his nautical-themed bedroom, became embedded in his face.

The teeth left blood pouring from the teen’s face, his mother, Susan, told Metro.co.uk.

“It was like something out of a horror film,” she said. “The shark must have been embedded in Sam's cheek for about 15 minutes and he was in a lot of pain.”

Dumb Dog

An unsuspecting passenger who flew through Tokyo's Narita airport left with $10,000 worth of free marijuana thanks to a forgetful customs officer and a sniffer dog with an unreliable nose.

The officer stuffed five ounces of the drug into the side pocket of a randomly selected black suitcase coming off an overseas flight into Narita yesterday so that the dog could get some practice at detecting drugs.

"The dog couldn’t find it and the officer also forgot which bag he put it in," a customs office spokeswoman said. "If by some chance passengers find it in their suitcase, we’re asking them to return it."

He was reprimanded by the head of customs at Narita, Manpei Tanaka, who said: "This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologize."

The marijuana, which has a street value of $9,680, was in a metal box wrapped with newspapers. Japan strictly prohibits both hard and soft drugs, with people imprisoned for possession of even small amounts of marijuana.

A Mystery?...Or The Falconer?

An 11-year-old boy has been injured when an eagle attacked him during a walk through the woods in Manistee County, Michigan.

Radio station WKLA reported Alex Birch was attacked by the eagle about 9 p.m. Sunday in Copemish. He was treated at a local hospital for numerous cuts and scratches to his back, head and neck.

It was not clear what led to the attack.

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I Just Heard This Behind Me...

...and I'm not sure what to make of it.

"I’ve never seen Star Wars. I really don’t want to. I’m okay being on the outside of “that”." -some dude in a cubicle behind me.

Crocs - Not Just A Shitty Plastic Shoe

There’s no need to be scared of sharks when you're in the Northern Territory - the crocs usually get to them first.

"We went past one section of the river and we heard some splashing,'' he said. "We looked across and saw a shark's tail coming up out of the water and then a crocodile's head came up and grabbed it.''

Mr. VanDran said the crocodile knew exactly what it was doing, dragging the shark on to unfamiliar dry land before finishing off its prey.

"How smart is the crocodile? It if was you or me it would be dragging you in to drown you, but it takes the shark up on dry land,'' he said. “See you later, alligator” he added.

Chris Kelly's West Virginny Miracle

Val Thomas, who lives in West Virginia, is being called a medical miracle after she suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours.

Thomas’ heart stopped around 1:30 a.m. Saturday and doctors said she had no pulse. Rigor mortis started to set in, and she was placed on a respiratory machine.

Her family said their goodbyes and Thomas’ tubes were removed, but she remained hooked on a ventilator as the possibility of organ donation was discussed.

However, Thomas woke up 10 minutes later and started talking.

“The nurse said, ‘I’m so sorry, Mrs. Thomas,’ and mom said, ‘That’s OK, honey, that’s OK,’” Jim Thomas said.

Val Thomas was transferred to the Cleveland Clinic so that specialists could check her out, but doctors said they could find nothing wrong with her.

“I know God has something in store for me, another purpose,” Val Thomas said. “I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure he’ll tell me.”

'elo!

New Yorkers could see their English cousins across the pond Thursday without benefit of cable TV or video conferencing, courtesy of an unusual live optical hookup created by a conceptual artist with a fanciful tale of a long-lost tunnel.

An optical device called a "telectroscope" was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn and another one on the Thames River in London on Thursday.

Spectators stepped up to the machine on both sides of the Atlantic and waved and wrote greetings to each other in real time on wipe-off message boards.

The contraption is the invention of Paul St George, a London artist known for his tiny replicas of monumental pieces of art.

Publicists will say only that it uses fiberoptic communication. St George prefers to stick to his story that the machine was started by his great-grandfather in Victorian times and transmits images via a tunnel under the ocean.

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/ The telectroscopic spectacle and viewer participation will be in operation on both sides of the Atlantic until June 15.

Shrek?

Cameron Diaz surprised onlookers with a dramatic transformation while working on her next project, My Sister’s Keeper, in Santa Monica yesterday.

In the film, Cameron's character goes bald to support her daughter, Sofia Vassilieva, who is battling leukemia on screen. The film also stars the young Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin.

One Man's Garbage...

The baboon troupes of Cape Town sometimes come down off the mountains and into the suburbs near the end of winter when food runs short. But yesterday, they came right at the start of winter - and on garbage collection day!

Honk Honk!

A Boulder man accused of showing up to a memorial gathering uninvited, showing pornographic pictures to the grieving mother, and grabbing the breast of the dead woman's sister pleaded guilty to felony trespassing.

Thirty-year-old Marlos Hernandez agreed to a plea deal Wednesday in Boulder County District Court. The deal calls for prosecutors to drop charges of first-degree burglary, harassment and unlawful sexual contact.

Through a translator, Hernandez maintained that he never broke in to the memorial gathering and said he was invited into the event April 2.

Police say the family did not ask Hernandez to leave because he was only one of a few mourners they didn't know.

How Are You? ...I Am Well.

Joshua James Cannon of the Gun Barrel City area was charged Wednesday in the abduction of a woman who spent 16 hours in an abandoned well after being taken from her home and beaten.

The woman's family then reported her missing and began searching the rural area about 55 miles southeast of Dallas.
The sheriff's department said a search led to the discovery of the woman in a 20-foot-deep well with some water in it a couple miles from her house.

The woman was treated for a broken nose, bruises and dehydration. She told the Tyler Morning Telegraph that the abduction began early Friday morning when she had arrived home just after midnight and answered her door.

She said that the man told her his truck had broken down and asked if to use the phone. After he made the call, he returned minutes later with a rifle and forced his way in.

Free Handgun!

Salesmen at one Missouri car dealership aren't just kicking in a free CD player or factory air: They're offering a free handgun with every purchase.

Through the end of the month, car buyers at Max Motors in Butler will have a choice — $250 toward either a gun purchase or gasoline.

General Manager Walter Moore said that so far, most buyers have chosen the gun, adding that he suggests they opt for a semiautomatic model "because it holds more rounds."

Moore said, "Down here, we all believe in God, guts and guns."

Photoshop Club

McKinney High School officials say they are appalled by altered photos in yearbooks delivered this week.

Besides the head and body switching, some necks were stretched, one girl's arm was missing, and another girl's head was placed on what appeared to be a nude body, with the chest blurred.

A spokeswoman for Minnesota-based Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. said the alterations were "an unfortunate lapse in judgment" by an employee but didn't believe it was malicious.

The high school had required Lifetouch to make heads the same size and eyes at the same level in all student photos, company spokeswoman Sara Thurin Rollin said Saturday. The request was "unusual and definitely very particular, but that's not to suggest what happened here is acceptable," she said.

Rollin declined to say if the company fired or reprimanded the employee who altered the images .

Free Willy Style

One of two men killed in a plane crash in Ocean County last week was the mammal trainer who prepared Keiko, the whale in the movie Free Willy, to be released into the wild.

Stephen Claussen, 41, of Seattle, was in New Jersey studying how proposed offshore wind turbines might affect birds and water mammals. A cell-phone call from Salinas at 4:03 p.m. led state police to the wrecked Cessna in dense woods in the Pinelands.

It Would Take More Than That...

A 32-year-old woman sent a picture of Pamela Anderson's breasts to a 15-year-old workmate shortly before beginning a sexual relationship with him.

Courtney Issabella Bailey, now 34, told police that the boy had texted her asking her for a picture of her breasts – but she sent a picture of the Baywatch star's breasts instead.

Bailey received a four-month suspended jail term today after pleading guilty to five counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 17 in January 2007.

Bailey had remarked to his parents that he was a "big strong boy" for a 15-year-old.

Sex had occurred in two separate incidents. The two had gone to her home after work and watched a DVD before having intercourse and then oral sex for 20 minutes before again having intercourse.

Yosuke Want A Cracker?

When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost in Tokyo, he did exactly what he had been taught -- recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

After spending a night at the police station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues. He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

"We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.

The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.

Better Than A Sex Tape...

Parents have complained to a northwest Ohio school board that a chaperone sealed students in their hotel rooms with duct tape during a high school choir trip.

At a heated meeting yesterday, Michelle Mata told the Lake Local school board in Millbury that the tactic panicked her son during a recent weekend trip to Chicago.

School board president Timothy Krugh told parents the tape was meant to keep students safe.

Schools Superintendent Jim Witt says the tape would show if students violated curfew but wouldn't have kept them from escaping in an emergency.

Don't Be A Hero

Mark Beverly, an overnight shift supervisor at a SuperAmerica in Roseville, Minn., was fired in March after he jumped on a masked robber who he believed was attacking a fellow employee. Adding insult to injury, Beverly has been denied unemployment benefits.

The trouble began around 3 a.m. when Beverly was cleaning the bathroom and his female co-worker was behind the cash register. Beverly said he heard her scream, so he ran out and saw a robber wearing a blue-stocking cap jostling with her.

"It looked like he was hurting her, so I jumped on him," Beverly said. "I just tried to bang him on the counter a couple of times."

After a tussle, he said, the robber regained his footing and looked as if he was going to pull out a weapon. Beverly said the man told him, "Don't be a hero," before fleeing the store with about $15.

Marathon Petroleum Company, the owner of the SuperAmerica chain, said Beverly was told what to do in the company handbook — which advises employees to "cooperate: don't argue, resist or attack the robber".

8 Days A Week

A woman who survived on rainwater has been freed after being trapped in rubble for 195 hours in the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, which has now killed more than 40,000. The 60-year-old woman escaped with just facial bruises and a minor fracture during her eight-day ordeal.

The official Xinhua news agency identified her as Wang Youqun, a retiree, and said she had been unconscious for a day when a falling girder hit her head in the May 12 quake.

She was apparently trapped in a landslide that swept away a temple in the city of Pengzhou and was intially able to move, but a later aftershock trapped her between two rocks, according to AP.

Her dramatic discovery came hours after rescue teams pulled two men men from the rubble in Sichuan province.
One of the men was found in a mine in Qingchuna county and a second in a hydroelectric plant in Wenchuan county, state-run media reported.

They had been buried for six days and 20 hours and seven days and 11 hours, respectively, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

China's observance of the earthquake came exactly a week after the 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook the county's southwest to its core -- 2:28 p.m. Monday. The quake killed at least 34,073 and injured another 245,109.

A New Beginning

Californian Barbara Harvey says she is forced to sleep in her car with her dogs after losing her job earlier this year. "This is my bed, my dogs," she said. "This is my life in this car right now."

Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social Security to help make ends meet. But she still cannot afford an apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.

There are 12 parking lots across Santa Barbara that have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness. These lots are believed to be part of the first program of its kind in the United States, according to organizers.

The lots open at 7 p.m. and close at 7 a.m. and are run by New Beginnings Counseling Center, a homeless outreach organization.

It is illegal for people in California to sleep in their cars on streets. New Beginnings worked with the city to allow the parking lots as a safe place for the homeless to sleep in their vehicles without being harassed by people on the streets or ticketed by police.

It's In Ted's Head

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday.

Kennedy, 76, was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family's compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts.

Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 1962. He is one of only six senators in U.S. history to serve more than 40 years. He is known as a liberal champion of social issues such as health care, family leave and the minimum wage.

God Speed, Ted!

Anyone Jonesin'?

For Indy?

I am.

Pelvis Has Left The Building

Windy conditions caused a speedboat to flip during a Budweiser Drag Boat Nationals race, but remarkably, the boat's driver survived.

Joe Peroceschi, of Muskego, Wis., was thrown from his boat, "Smokin Joe," during a race Sunday on Wappapello Lake in southeast Missouri.

Windy conditions lifted the boat from behind, at one point making it perpendicular to the lake.

Peroceschi, who reportedly shattered his pelvis, was racing against Rick Conklin of Ottawa, Ill., and his boat, Poppa's Toy.

What A Weekend!

The past few days were spent with friends in the Pocono Mountains. As Adam Magnes prepared for marriage, we prepared to get "festive".

First there was the 5 hour drive to Lake Harmony...

Then we had a beautiful (beer-filled) day at The Split Rock Country Club...

Split Rock Golf Course is one of the best-kept secrets in the Northeast, offering 27-holes to resort guests and the public. Split Rock Resort is a thinking man's course and has to be played with a combination of strategy and power.

We followed the links up with a "thinking man's" dinner at Louie's Prime.

And to top things off...a night at The Grandview- where all the views are grand.
***Soon to come: How I went blind at the grandview.***

Johnny Mulch

A man was severely injured when he threw himself into a wood chipper in Minnesota, police said.

Crews were clearing trees in a public area Thursday afternoon when the man appeared and jumped head first into the wood chipper.

Workers turned off the machine and called 911, and the man was rushed to Regions Hospital in St. Paul with injuries to his head and torso.

Police are calling it a suicide attempt and said the man is 19- to 21-years-old.

Plane Jane - Insane!

One small airplane ended up on top of another Thursday in a collision at Northwest Regional Airport, about 20 miles northeast of Fort Worth.

Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident as one plane apparently tried to land as the other was taking off from the airport near Texas Motor Speedway, KXAS-TV reported.

Northwest Regional Airport, on its Web site, bills itself as the largest privately-owned airport in America, with more than 550 planes.

There is no control tower. Pilots using the airport are required to transmit their locations over a certain radio frequency.

UPDATE!

A 3-year-old boy from St. Petersburg, Fla., has fallen asleep for the first time in his life after doctors performed experimental surgery to fix a rare brain condition.

Rhett Lamb suffers from chiari malformation, which puts pressure on his brain stem, but in the experimental surgery, doctors removed pieces of bone from Rhett’s skull and spine to relieve that pressure.

The surgery appeared to have worked, Rhett’s father, David, said Thursday.

"Last night, we didn’t wake up," David Lamb said. "It was amazing."

Lamb said he and his wife have to take turns sleeping because someone had to be up at all times with Rhett. The surgery, which cost $60,000, was not covered by medical insurance.

(Pre)Teen Wolf

Pruthviraj Patil has suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition also known as Werewolf Syndrome, since birth. He is believed to be one of only 50 people in the world with the condition.

Pruthviraj’s family have tried a range of treatments - including homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies and more recently laser surgery – but none has proved successful.

The thick matted hair that covers Pruthviraj's face has caused him to be stared at and bullied throughout his childhood, and he rarely leaves his home village in India because of the cruelty of strangers.

When Prithviraj was born villagers told his mother she had given birth to a God. Others thought he was a supernatural creature and a bad omen because of his unique appearance.

But despite his abnormal hair growth Pruthviraj, who is from the district of Sangli, near Bombay, is healthy, sporty and popular at school. "When I first went to school I used to get bullied and other children would laugh at me, but now they treat me like normal," he said.

“We all play cricket together and the hair doesn't stop me running or catching the ball, so it is not a big problem."

Wow!

Black: Twins for Jolie, Pitt

After I read this headline the first time, I was shocked.

Then I read it again...

Going Nowhere.

A suburban Chicago man has reclaimed the Guinness world record for time spent on a stationary bicycle.

George Hood's time isn't official yet, but organizers say he spent about 177 hours over eight days riding a spinning bike at a suburban YMCA.

The retired Drug Enforcement Agency investigator from Aurora began his ride on May 5 and finished early Monday. He rode the equivalent of 2,016 miles, burned more than 46,000 calories and never slept for more than 12 minutes at a time.

He had held the record until last summer after spending 111 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds on a bike. That record was broken by another cyclist from Tasmania.

It's Not A Tumor!

A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.

Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.

Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

Court Jester

A man was arrested after pulling marijuana from his pocket at a security check at a court. The man was visiting the courts section of the Bradley County Justice Center on Monday when he was asked to empty his pockets into a plastic bowl, a standard procedure.

Sheriff Tim Gobble said the items he placed in the bowl included marijuana and rolling papers. When questioned, the man ran from the building, but officers captured him within minutes.

The man faces charges of having contraband in a penal institution and evading arrest.