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It's what an California based web company calls "unique advertising in the 21st century." A click of the mouse will soon let you see a local woman giving birth. The St. Louis area mother-to-be, put her birth on eBay and got a winner. Asia Francis got 27 bids after putting a unique ad on eBay. The highest bidder was Globat-dot-com. Asia Francis is now getting attention and 1000 dollars for putting her little girls arrival online. Francis says she considers the idea the perfect way to celebrate her first child. She also says her daughter can be proud of the...

A 45-year-old former high school dance team coach and school crossing guard in Colorado Springs was arrested after her daughter's 16th birthday party turned into something akin to "High School Girls Gone Wild." Marsha Ann Williams, who had been employed by Colorado Springs School District 11 as a crossing guard, was arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of minors in connection with a party at her home in January. Williams, who has no arrest history and was a volunteer coach at Mitchell High School, spent 12 hours in jail before posting a $1,000 bond. On Sunday,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old people may hold the key to human civilization, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They found evidence that, around 30,000 years ago, many more people started living into old age, in turn fueling a population explosion. Rachel Caspari of the University of Michigan and Sang-Hee Lee of the University of California at Riverside believe that groups in which old people survived better were more successful, in turn allowing more people to live into old age. "There has been a lot of speculation about what gave modern humans their evolutionary advantage. This research provides a simple explanation for...