Falling asleep in basement means this little boy will live to see his next birthday.

A mom’s decision to let her 7-year-old son sleep saved his life. Hours after Jennifer Crespo decided to leave her son Trent in the basement – rather than carry him to his room – a violent storm with golf ball-sized hail and 80 mph wind gusts ripped through their Yonkers neighborhood.

What the shell is going on at JFK International Airport in New York?

A runway at John F Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly yesterday morning after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac. Ground crews eventually rounded up the wayward reptiles and deposited them back in the brackish water farther from airport property, but not before the incident disrupted JFK’s flight schedule and contributed to delays that reached nearly one and a half hours.

Employees at historical black cemetery near Chicago dig up buried bodies, tossing them into a pile in a field, so plots and possibly even coffins could be resold.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has enlisted the help of FBI experts who have worked with mass graves in Serbia in its investigation of more than 100 grave sites that were dug up at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery. Sheriff Tom Dart said this morning that the FBI is helping identify remains that were removed from graves and tossed into a mass unmarked grave — allegedly by four employees of the cemetery.

Huge dogfighting ring smashed by authorities.

Authorities seized more than 400 dogs early Wednesday in a multistate raid that animal welfare groups said dismantled the “largest dogfighting operation in U.S. history.” Some of the fights allegedly occurred about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City on a Harrison County, Mo., farm where thousands of dollars changed hands in bets and handlers killed dogs that underperformed.

D’OH!

Two inmates at the Chatham County jail in coastal Georgia got burned by their own smoking habit when they started a fire trying to light a handmade cigarette with a spark from an electrical socket. Both inmates were treated for minor burns after their cellmates quickly doused the fire with water, Sheriff’s Deputy Ron Robinson said Wednesday. He said the jail banned smoking more than a decade ago, but it hasn’t stopped inmates from improvising.

Two Alabama police officers arrested and held with no bond on robbery charge.

Two Fort Deposit, Alabama, police officers are facing a robbery charge after allegedly robbing a man they stopped on Interstate 65. Butler County Sheriff Kenny Hardin said Thursday that Tyson Bennett and 22-year-old Jesse Fuller were arrested for allegedly robbing the man of an undisclosed amount of money after pulling him over at the county line north of Greenville about 12 a.m. June 30.

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Scientists develop anti aging drug that can extend life for decades from chemical found in soil on mysterious Easter Island.

A miraculous ‘fountain of youth’ drug that could extend people’s life spans by more than a decade has been developed by scientists. The anti-ageing pill was created from a chemical found in the soil of Easter Island – one of the most remote and mysterious places on the planet.

Grandma with shovel 1, Bambi O.

Maybe Dorothy Richardson was scared, or maybe she was protecting her flower garden. Whatever the reason, the 75-year-old Euclid woman is accused of beating a fawn to death. Richardson faces charges of animal cruelty from the incident, which occurred June 15 at her home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation.

Worker dies after falling into vat of chocolate.

A worker died this morning after falling into a vat used to melt and mix chocolate in Camden, officials said. The accident occurred at Cocoa Services Inc. at a warehouse owned by Lyons & Sons, Inc., at 701 North 36th Street.

Detroit police officer charged with stealing money from auto theft tip program.

Officials at Michigan’s statewide auto theft tip line hope clues keep coming in, despite a Detroit Police auto theft investigator facing charges he stole more than $26,000 in reward money. (SNIP) Stevie Perry, 38, of Detroit was released on $10,000 personal bond this morning after his arraignment in 16th District Court in Livonia, Court Administrator and Magistrate Denis Epler said.

Nice grandsons. Maybe they’ll get some of the same treatment from their cellmates.

A pair of Salt Lake City men are accused of assaulting their grandmother with bottles of shampoo and baby powder before urinating on the woman and leaving her injured in a bathroom. The attack occurred July 2 at a home near 700 South and 300 East, according to charging documents filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court. Michael Levi Hansen Jr., 20, and Christopher Eugene Hansen, 22, forced their way into a bathroom in the home they shared with their 66-year-old grandmother as the woman was taking a shower, court documents state.

Google announces plans to offer new open source operating system for computers.

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System.

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Idiots arrested after racing each other at speeds up to 100 mph while they both had small children in their cars.

Police say two people charged with driving up to 100 mph had three toddlers as passengers. Authorities say 29-year-old James Maymi and 23-year-old Virgen Lopez were racing on the Tampa Causeway between 90 and 100 mph early Monday morning. Maymi had a 2-year-old and a 20-month-old in his car. Lopez had a 2-year-old in her vehicle.

Disney World to reopen monorail a day after 21 year old operator was killed in accident.

Walt Disney World is reopening its monorail system today — with new safety sensors added to monitor track switches, according to a note to employees this morning. The move comes a little more than 24 hours after a predawn collision killed one monorail pilot. The collision occurred as one of the trains was being transferred off the system’s Epcot line, which ferries guests between the Magic Kingdom and Epoct, according to Disney’s note.

Twice deported illegal alien arrested yet again on variety of charges after crashing car with infant inside.

A Marshall County man deported twice from the U.S. is in jail here facing a reckless endangement charge after an infant child was hurt last week in a single-vehicle wreck. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said today the vehicle Vidal Lopez-Lopez, 21, was driving late Friday night left the highway near Highway 205 South and Jackie Street and overturned.

South Carolina law enforcement searching for suspected “spree” killer.

A South Carolina sheriff said Monday that physical evidence links three shootings to a serial killer blamed for five deaths in a week in a rural community. Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that authorities were still searching for the killer, but he did not elaborate on the evidence found.

Woman held on attempted murder charges for withholding cancer medication from her now deceased son.

A 37-year-old mother has been charged with attempted murder after withholding medication and treatment from her autistic son, who died from leukemia in March. Kristen LaBrie of Salem, Mass., faces charges of attempted murder, child endangerment and permitting bodily injury to a disabled person.

Look. More enviroweenie nonsense that all the leftists can get themselves wound over.

Pradeep Nagappa didn’t realize that filling up his Dodge Avenger’s gas tank before evening could contribute to ground-level ozone pollution.”I didn’t know, but I’ll avoid doing it now if I can,” said Nagappa, 26, Indianapolis, as he filled his car’s tank Downtown one day last week.

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Apple says hot weather to blame for their new 3Gs phones overheating but users claim that is not the case.

Technology sites and Apple forums have been indundated with comments about the new model overheating and becoming discoloured since it was launched on June 19. Some iPhone users have complained that the device has become too hot to hold to the ear during long calls while others have noticed that the white 32GB model has turned pink after overheating.

Argentine ants have taken over the world. We’re doomed.

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.

Some really weird sight restoration surgery allows blind man to see his wife of four years for the first time.

Blind Martin Jones has seen his wife for the first time after surgeons restored his sight using one of his teeth. Martin, 42, was blinded when a tub of molten aluminum exploded in his face while he was working in a scrapyard 12 years ago. He married care worker Gill, 50, eight years later so he has never seen her – until surgeons performed the incredible op.

Man who has been selling stolen meat at neighborhood bars for years finally busted.

Spokane Police say they have busted a man, allegedly the mastermind behind a meat theft ring. Police say Christopher Webber sold stolen, uncooked meat that had been unrefrigerated for hours to people in bars, and was caught on surveillance video several times. According to detectives, over the past three years Webber went to local grocery stores, and loaded up with various kinds of meat.

Dumb crooks of the day award goes to this group.

A woman who agreed to be sexually and physically assaulted to help her lawsuit against a former employer pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal conspiracy charge. Lindsey D. Crawford, 23, of Kansas City, admitted in U.S. District Court that she conspired to commit wire fraud with two other people by staging an attack last November at her home in Waldo. (SNIP) According to the documents, both women were duct-taped, and Reabe struck them on the head with a metal tool and a beer bottle. Several items were used to sexually assault Crawford, according to court documents.

Sicko mom placed ad on craigslist steering horny men to a nine year old girl who got into a tiff with her daughter.

It was a “horrific” plot. A Long Island woman allegedly tried to get revenge on a 9-year-old girl who ar gued with her daughter by giving a throng of sex- seeking men the child’s home phone number through a Craigslist ad. Margery Tannenbaum, 40, alreadly accused of harassment in the sick scheme, was slapped with even more serious charges at her arraign ment yesterday — and the young victim’s mother spoke out for the first time.

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New York man strips down to birthday suit during a US Airways flight to Los Angeles forcing crew to divert to Albuquerque.

A US Airways flight to Los Angeles was diverted to Albuquerque after a Bronx man removed all of his clothing midflight, forcing flight attendants to cover him with a blanket before he was arrested. Keith Wright, 50, was taken into custody by airport authorities after he disrobed in his seat in the back of Flight 705 Tuesday night, authorities said.

Elderly woman accidentally switches on the heater instead of the A/C during Ohio heat wave. Becomes first heat related death in Cincinnati this year.

The coroner in Cincinnati says the city’s first heat-related death of the summer occurred when an elderly woman turned on the heat when she meant to turn on her air conditioning. Hamilton County Coroner O’dell Owens says 84-year-old Fannie Shockley misread the thermostat in her apartment and died June 23, a day the temperature hit 87 degrees outdoors.

Family decision to have a “pet” python costs their two year old child her life.

The 2-year-old girl killed by an albino Burmese python Wednesday in Sumter County died of asphyxia, according to preliminary results released moments ago from an autopsy being conducted. The toddler, Shaiunna Hare, also had bite marks from the snake on her forehead and arms. The autopsy is being conducted by the District 5 Medical Examiner’s Office, which serves Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion and Sumter counties.

Wow, 21 Marines will become naturalized citizens on the Fourth of July and this newspaper site gives the story two whole sentences.

Twenty-one Marines will take the oath of allegiance for citizenship Saturday in a naturalization ceremony at the Marine base to mark Independence Day. The oath will be administered by Jack Bulger, field office director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, after a keynote speech by Col. Richard Flatau, commanding officer of the Marine base.

Peta whacks claim feeding you children meat is child abuse.

An animal rights group is planning to post a billboard in the Greenville area that calls feeding meat to children abuse in light of recent news stories about a 555-pound South Carolina teenager. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to put up the billboard that features a picture of an overweight boy who is about to eat a hamburger with the tagline “Feeding kids meat is child abuse.”

Teenagers mistake woman’s apparent screams of passion as an attack, go after her whoopie partner with baseball bat and some fists of fury.

That wasn’t pain. That was passion. The sounds of a woman having sex drew an angry crew of teenagers to her rescue after they mistakenly thought she was being assaulted. Once in her Connecticut bedroom, one of the teens used a baseball bat to club the woman’s sex partner.

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