NATIONAL NEWS Former Power Ranger to Stand Trial for Murder
This story is as weird and disturbing as my page gets. The former Power Ranger, Skylar Deleon, and his wife are accused of tying a wealthy couple to the anchor of their own yacht and throwing them overboard. According to the Deputy District Attorney, the couple tried to hold their breath as they sank to the bottom. The story goes on to explain that the murders were part of a conspiracy to steal the wealthy couple's 55 foot yacht. To add to the bizarre nature of this crime, a 40-year-old gang member named John Fitzgerald Kennedy was involved. I'm not sure what Skylar thought he was trying to do, but perhaps he thought the yacht could transform itself into a time machine and he could go back and save JFK from being assassinated. Just a thought... what a bizarre crime.
WORLD NEWS Bet You Wish You Were A Waitress Now
This story from Sweden should put a little bounce in your step as you think to yourself "Yes, there are random acts of kindness and there are people who are still good enough to keep their word." Apparently a Swedish man gave a 19 year-old waitress a Porsche as a tip. He told her she would get his Porsche as a tip and she thought he was just hitting on her... but when HE gave HER his phone number, she called it, and she went to visit him with her father the next day, he kept his word and gave her the car. Granted, the car is only worth about $4,000 so, for a Porsche, it needs some work... but he did keep his word. The only tragic part of this story? The 19 year-old is still waitressing, as a car doesn't pay bills.
SCIENCE NEWS Wisconsin Scientists Say "Bharrr" Is At Center of Milky Way
The above is how I think people in Wisconsin would spell bar if they had to spell phonetically. Don't believe me? I'll do my impression for you sometime and you'll know. Regardless, this story is about two University of Wisconsin astronomers who believe the bar at the center of the Milky Way universe is actually larger than originally thought. They think the band of stars at the center of the Milky Way is 27,000 light years across (which is 7,000 light years longer than originally speculated). How important is this discovery? Depends... NASA felt it important enough to spend five years setting up the experiment and one year making sense of all the data... so someone felt it worth six years of their life. Click the link to see the artist's rendering... it's pretty neat.