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Appeal requests postcards for Charlie Codling, a 4-year-old boy with a terminal brain tumor.

Did a 1991 literary promotional booklet list Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya?

Video purportedly shows a pedestrian being run over and beaten in Detroit.

Article describes incidents in the administration of Maine governor Paul LePage.

Photographs show a foot injury caused by stepping on a broken CFL bulb? (Disturbing image warning)

Is Pink Cross Publishing about to publish a gay revision of the Bible?

Do the 'giant head' moai statues on Easter Island have bodies?

Appeal claims that every time a particular message is posted, Facebook will donate 45 cents towards an operation for a boy shot by his stepfather.

Scam masquerades as Amazon.com notifications of canceled orders for non-existent books.

Is the Taco Bell chain closing due to allegations that their 'beef' is really cat and dog meat?

Does entering your PIN in reverse at any ATM summon the police?

Is Burger King offering free food vouchers for inviting friends on Facebook?

Did Walter Reed Medical Center issue guidelines that prohibited the use of religious items during visits with patients?

Did a vengeful Polish dentist pull out all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her?

Video clip purportedly shows a Britain's Got Talent contestant shooting himself after a harsh judging.

Did law students fail their California bar exams because they stopped to assist a stricken classmate?

A Diamond Pet Brands recall of pet foods is underway due to potential Salmonella contamination.

Does Snapple donate millions of dollars to anti-marijuana efforts?

Account describes a cab driver's taking an elderly woman to a hospice.

An actor whose character had been killed during a live television production suddenly got up and walked off-stage.

Did the phrase "the whole nine yards" begin as a reference to the contents a cement mixer?

Another scam on the loose: Free Disneyland tickets to Facebook users who 'invite' various numbers of their friends.

Essay explains the origins of the symbolism on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill.

Rumor claims children are spirited away from amusement parks and shopping centers by kidnappers who alter the appearance of their victims before smuggling them out the exits.

Another scam spread by cell phone text message: free $1,000 Best Buy gift cards.

An adopted dog's former owner turns out to be a soldier who was killed in Iraq.

Did the passage of HR 347 make it illegal to protest anywhere the Secret Service is present?

Another scam afoot: Two free air travel tickets on JetBlue for all Facebook users.

Did Ted Nugent evade the draft in the 1960s by taking drugs and acting crazy?

Image contrasts photographs of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Image purportedly shows an advertisement for Oreo cookies featuring a breast-feeding baby. (Partial nudity)

Did Ann Romney say men 'deserve to be paid at a higher rate' than women?

Did lawyers representing Barack Obama admit that his birth certificate is a forgery?

Has singer Justin Bieber been stabbed by a crazed fan?

Movie poster advertises an upcoming film biography of Walt Disney?

Did Mitt Romney say he 'can relate to black people' because his ancestors once owned slaves?

Account reports instances of customers being cheated by malfunctioning gas pumps.

Did Barack Obama remove the U.S. flag from the tail of Air Force One and replace it with his own logo?

An Austrian town bears an unusual -- and unprintable -- name.

Did the word "blackmail" originate as a reference to letters of extortion sent by mail?

Do invitations sent from the RockMelt browser harbor viruses?

An irritating cell phone user is summoned back to bed by another woman during a call to his wife.

Photograph purportedly shows a can containing a decidedly unappetizing fish-derived product.

Did the Titanic go to a watery grave carrying a cursed mummy in its hold?

Links posted on Facebook purportedly point to leaked video of a roller coaster accident.

Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?

Who is the wounded Marine pictured in a widely circulated photograph?

Letter from jailed man results in his family's receiving help with the plowing from the police.

Phishing scam being spread via Newegg.com order confirmations.

Do messages containing the words "Visit the New Facebook" include links that give a hacker access to your Facebook account?

Has the world's first hotel for sheep opened in Japan?

PETA has once again placed a brick with a hidden message at a baseball park.

A 15-year-old girl named Sierra LaMar is missing from her California home.

Living turtles and fish are packaged in plastic bags and sold as souvenir keyrings in China.

July 2012 features in the return of a calendrical canard.

Phishing scam comes disguised as a Delta Air Lines ticket purchase confirmation.

Photograph shows a student with cerebral palsy who was left alone apart from the rest of the choir during a school performance in which he was supposed to take part.

Bob and Nancy Strait, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, couple, were beaten and robbed in their home.

Poem and picture document a child abuse victim.

Account describes the shooting of White Plains resident Kenneth Chamberlain.

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