Well it’s not like we didn’t already know that Michael Jackson’s kids were not biologically his.

A Los Angeles dermatologist who treated Michael Jackson for years is the biological father of Jacko’s son and daughter, according to a bombshell new report. Us Weekly magazine reports in its upcoming issue, which hits newsstands tomorrow, that Dr. Arnold Klein is the man who fathered Prince and Paris.

24 year old punk gets his clock cleaned when he tries to get tough with 72 year old man. With nice picture.

A knife-wielding burglar got the shock of his life when he was left battered and bruised by a 72-year-old former boxer. Gregory McCalium, 24, was punched twice in the face after breaking into the home of Frank Corti. The OAP said he was compelled to defend himself and his wife after McCalium threatened them at their home in Botley, Oxford.

Running red light leads to capture of fugitive who’s been on the run for 29 years.

Gwinnett County police have arrested a fugitive who was on the run for 29 years on a drug charge after stopping him for running a red light. Police say 51-year-old Cesar Velez-Velez was one of more than 400 people stopped for a warning during a “public education campaign” about newly installed red right-turn arrows at a busy intersection.

Woman lays down on railroad tracks to “clear her mind.” Predictably a train soon comes along.

Birmingham police said a 22-year-old woman has suffered a broken leg after being hit by a train. Officer Lawrence Billups said the woman told police she was lying on the tracks “to clear her mind” when the train approached around 7 a.m. Sunday.

Consumer groups rail against banks that force employees to sell sometimes unneeded and often unnecessary products to customers to meet sales quotas.

Consumer and labor groups demanded Bank of America Corp and other lenders reform their sales practices so that workers under pressure to meet sales quotas do not saddle customers with costly and unnecessary products. The whistleblowing campaign was announced Tuesday as the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled legislation to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, as part of the Obama administration financial regulation overhaul.

Illegal alien arrested after threatening to blow up Missouri police station, federal courthouse.

A 23-year-old man faces charges and possible deportation for allegedly threatening to blow up the police station and a federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau. The suspect, 23-year-old Pedro Quino-Teodoro (KEE’-no-TEE’-oh-dore-oh), is charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat and one count of attempted obstruction of a governmental function.

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It’s the maximum. 150 years in prison for mega thief Bernie Madoff.

Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment. Scattered applause and whoops broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom after U.S. District Judge Denny Chin issued the maximum sentence to the 71-year-old defendant, who said he lives “in a tormented state now, knowing all the pain and suffering I’ve created.”

Good Samaritan running to aid another motorist involved in wreck plunges 50 feet to his death.

Police say a New York man running to the aid of another motorist fell to his death from a bridge, apparently because he didn’t know there was a large gap between lanes. State police say 44-year-old Kevin Ryan, of Mount Kisco, was traveling on Route 23 in the town of Catskill, 30 miles south of Albany, around 10:45 p.m. Sunday when he noticed a vehicle overturned in the opposite lane.

Great Britain, how’s that government run health care working out for you folks again?

Zak Rizvi, aged 11 months, was admitted to hospital shivering and slipping in and out of consciousness when he was admitted to hospital. But parents Shamila and Zeshan Rizvi say the youngser was X-rayed, given paracetamol and sent home. Now Manchester’s Trafford General Hospital has launched an investigation into whether his death could have been prevented.

Car wreck results in man being ejected from vehicle and winding up on roof of nearby house.

A man ended up on the roof of a house after being ejected from a car in Greene County early Saturday morning. The crash happened just outside Jamestown at around 1:30 a.m. at old U.S. 35 and state Route 734 when a car flipped and one of the victims was thrown 50 or 60 feet and landed on the roof of a nearby house, police said.

Papa John pizza founder looking for his ’72 Camaro and is willing to pay $250,000 for it.

“Papa” John Schnatter is looking to make someone the ultimate doughgirl or doughboy. The pizza company founder has increased the award to find his original ’72 Z28 Camaro to $250,000.

Little boy visiting his father for the summer was reportedly severely beaten by the man on Father’s Day. He was taken off life support today and passes away.

A 7-year-old boy allegedly beaten unconscious by his father was taken off life support this morning and pronounced dead. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Nathaniel Turner was removed from a ventilator shortly after midnight at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

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Entire 13 story nearly finished apartment building in China just falls over on its side. I wonder if the people living in similar buildings right behind it are a little nervous?

A 13-storey residential building under construction in Shanghai collapsed on Saturday, killing one worker and highlighting the dangers of shoddy building in fast-urbanising China. The building, in the outskirts of the city, collapsed at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT), with one construction worker killed, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

So called “rare disease” that affects an estimated 10 million Americans, mostly women under 50, goes undiagnosed because most doctors don’t even know about it.

It took an autopsy to determine why 10-year-old Haley McWhorter didn’t wake up one morning last May. While asleep, Haley went into cardiac arrest, stopped breathing and never started again, concluded the medical examiner in Ft. Myers, Fla. The examiner found that a thickened artery wall had blocked blood flow to Haley’s heart. The odd growth of the artery wall suggested the presence of a disease called FMD, or fibromuscular dysplasia, the examiner concluded. FMD, a condition in which artery walls expand into and obstruct the arterial channel, is largely unknown to the public and even to the majority of doctors. When discussed in medical schools — if discussed at all — FMD is typically described as an obscure and rare disease.

Falling asleep in your local commercial trash bin is just a bad idea.

A homeless man who fell asleep in a large wheelie bin has survived being crushed to the size of a cardboard box after it was emptied into the jaws of a hydraulic rubbish truck. Christian Lehman, 31, was left with multiple injuries to his legs and feet and 200 metal plates and screws to hold his ribs and shoulder blades in place.

A 76 year old man driving semi truck plows into several vehicles on Oklahoma highway leaving 9 dead, 4 injured.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has identified the victims of what may be the deadliest single crash in state history. About 1 p.m. Friday, a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped by an earlier accident on Will Rogers Turnpike Northeast of Miami. Nine people, ranging in age from 7 to 69, died at the the scene.

Now former NYPD officer pleads guilty to framing two brothers during phony drug bust.

A disgraced NYPD officer turned in his badge and pleaded guilty Friday to framing two brothers in a phony drug bust. Police Officer Henry Tavarez, 27, of Manhattan, admitted he and Detective Stephen Anderson worked together to wrongly incriminate brothers Jose and Maximo Colon during a Jan. 5, 2008, sting inside a Queens nightclub.

Another scam pulled on senior citizens exposed.

It was shortly after noon when a 70-year-old Wilmette man received a call from a jail in Canada. “Grandpa,” the caller claimed, “this is your oldest, handsomest grandson.” “Owen?” the Wilmette man responded. Yes, the caller said, he was Owen. Then the caller told an elaborate tale of getting jailed after being in a car accident. The caller said he needed $4,150 to pay for car repairs. The Wilmette man sent the money via MoneyGram, but as it turns out, the caller wasn’t the man’s grandson.

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