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OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a portable methamphetamine lab exploded in a man’s pants as he tried to run away from a state trooper during a traffic stop. Tulsa television station KOTV reports the incident happened shortly after midnight Friday in Okmulgee County. Authorities say the man tried to run away when the trooper asked him about a chemical smell. Trooper Shiloh Hall says the man had an active meth lab in his pants that burst during a struggle with the trooper. The man was checked out by emergency personnel and booked in the Okmulgee County...

52 REASONS NOT TO MOW 37 WAYS TO HELP TREES Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns. Art Buchwald: People shouldn't be judged by the length of their grass. In 2003 through now, the world has seen floods, famine, fire, mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new...

THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010, WHENEVER THEY NEXT COME UP FOR OFFICE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW; THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION -- THAT IS, UNLESS THEY DO NOT MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHO NEVER PAID INTO IT AND AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE BEING LEFT OUT. Grouped by Home State Alabama: Alaska: Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona: McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR),...

I am curious why none of the media covers the most important aspect of the Malvo shootings. If you look at Newspapers on the dates when the shootings are underway you discover something I find quite interesting. The shootings begin to dominate the news the day before the debate on the Iraq war starts and they catch them the day after the declaration of war??? If you ask most people "do you remember the debate about starting the second Iraq war", they will all answer "yes of course". But if you followup with the question "name one point in the...

I recently received a reply to a post that stated: "This should be beneath a "freeper". Sad." So I asked.. what is it that makes a FReeper? My reply (and I will admit was tasteless) was also questioning. It stirred controversy and was removed? Why Moderators? Can you not tell me? Did it not meet with your "FReeper" mentality? According to all posted guidelines it should be listed but no, you chose to delete it. Yes.. I'm the first one IBTZ, I'm sure you'll nick me for speaking up..

Albuquerque police say the suspect in an attempted robbery Friday morning turned up at the University of New Mexico Hospital without his thumb. Stephen Tillet, 19, is suspected in the attempted robbery. He is at the UNM Hospital undergoing treatment for his thumb injury. When he is released, according to APD spokesperson Trish Ahrensfield, he will be charged with armed robbery, tampering with evidence and aggravated battery. Police say the 61-year-old was leaving Discount Tools at Zuni and Valencia. As he approached his truck, police say the suspect approached the man with a handgun. But, according to APD, the suspect...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 108th Congress - 2nd Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation Porter J. Goss, of Florida, To Be Director of Central Intelligence )

CINCINNATI -- Zookeepers helped police search for venomous and exotic pets in a house where a woman was fatally bitten by a viper. Alexandria Hall, 44, was bitten in her home Monday and died Saturday at University Hospital, police and a nursing supervisor said. Neighbors knew she had pets, including rabbits and birds, but were unaware of her collection of at least nine poisonous snakes and more than one dozen other snakes, lizards and alligators until police went to the suburban North College Hill house. Police believe an urutu pit viper bit the woman on Monday, and neighbors said she...

VERNON -- In all his years patrolling the streets, Police Chief Ian McCollin has pulled over plenty of drunk drivers. On Sunday night, McCollin had the tables turned. He was pulled over by a drunk driver. McCollin was heading south on Route 142 when he noticed a man driving a Hyundai Elantra, sitting at the Broad Brook Road stop sign and slowly edging forward into the intersection. As he passed the car, McCollin observed a confused look on the motorist's face. "I figured it might be somebody looking for help, possibly lost or something," he said. As he slowed down...

why do people keep banning me everytime I put up interesting articles? I work for a website I think some of you are familiar with called phantirath weekly world news and each time we put somthing up on FR no matter how conservative it is it keeps getting banned. Whats the matter with it?! Damn man what are you marxist socialists communists? I just got a call this mroning from a Juwish friend of mine who said that you banned an important article about Zionism and Noam Federman and about how we were to support israel. I thought you guys...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- A single-engine plane trying to make an emergency landing on a freeway Saturday clipped a van and flipped upside down, and the pilot was arrested for flying under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.

NAPLES, Fla. -- A man who was covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart on Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions that lead authorities to charge him with murder. Sheddrick Deon Bentley, 26, was charged with second-degree murder of 18-year-old Cory Brightman, whose stabbed body was found in a garbage bin. Bentley, who also faces charges including grand theft auto, was held without bail at the Collier County Jail. Bentley is the nephew of former Indianapolis Colts running back Albert Bentley, and had been living with his uncle for about two months. The elder Bentley said his nephew and...

A student who drank a chemical from his high school lab on a dare was recovering in a hospital, but not before a scare. The student drank the unidentified chemical on a two-dollar bet at the school, said Nancy Smith, a UMC supervisor. "We need to find out what it was from the toxicologist," Assistant Principal Ray Lascano said. "All of those materials belonged to one of the chemistry labs." The student was found last Wednesday in a school hallway, bleeding from the nose and mouth. The unidentified student, a junior at Odessa High School, was upgraded Monday from critical...

Man Arrested After Same-Sex Marriage License Rejected Clerk: Man Raised Tirade After Request Denied POSTED: 7:34 am EST May 17, 2004 UPDATED: 7:35 am EST May 17, 2004 EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A man faces disorderly conduct charges for allegedly screaming at the Vanderburgh County Clerk after she told him he could not apply for a same-sex marriage license in Indiana. John Anthony Dunham, 26, of Evansville was arrested Thursday after launching into a tirade after Clerk Marsha Abell told him same-sex marriages are illegal in Indiana. "I knew he was here to cause trouble," Abell said, describing Dunham as "angry...

<p>DECKER, Ind. -- A man driving a stolen tractor crushed a sport-utility vehicle and passed through a watermelon field before he was arrested on a drunken driving charge, police said.</p> <p>Police were called early Sunday about a tractor running over an SUV parked in front of the vehicle owner's home in Decker, about 35 miles north of Evansville, the Knox County Sheriff's Department said. Another complaint was made that the tractor crossed several roads, ran through a watermelon field and a front yard.</p>

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI MARCH 19, 2004 16:02:35 ET XXXXX KERRY CALLED SECRET SERVICE AGENT 'SON OF A B*TCH' AFTER SLOPE SPILL Dem presidential candidate John Kerry called his secret service agent a "son of a bitch" after the agent inadvertently moved into his path during a ski mishap in Idaho, sending Kerry falling into the snow. When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, "I don't fall down," the "son of a b*itch knocked me over." The Secret Service agent in question has complained about Kerry's treatment, top...

<p>EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A woman made an obscene gesture toward an SUV Monday -- one carrying the county sheriff and chief deputy -- and ended up in jail, police said.</p> <p>Mary Ann Sweeney, 33, of Evansville was stopped behind a bus.</p>

Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross HARTLAND — A Hartland man was treated at a Pittsfield hospital after he nailed himself to a cross. The 23-year-old man apparently was trying to commit suicide Thursday evening in his living room, the Bangor Daily News reported. Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong said Monday that no charges will be filed. "There is no crime here," he said. Police said the man appeared delusional and told them he had been "seeing pictures of God on the computer." He told them he had not seen the hit movie "The Passion of the...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Police didn't have much trouble tracking a man who they say robbed two gas stations -- he was wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device. Lafayette police found Joshua W. Kochell, 27, at a hospital emergency room where he was being treated for an injury that was not associated with the robberies. Detective Tom Davidson said he did not know the nature of the injury. Davidson said Kochell (pictured, left) was under house arrest when he used a gun to rob two gas stations Wednesday. Police tracked him through the monitoring device he was ordered to wear on...