Weird News

News of the Weird

9 Feb 2012

“Dementiaville�: Swiss health officials have authorized construction of an assisted-living “village� of 1950s-style homes and gardens designed to “remind� patients with Alzheimer’s and similar afflictions of surroundings that they might actually recall and with which they might be more comfortable and secure than they are with modern life.

Man in court on a drug paraphernalia charge caught with more drug paraphernalia

8 Feb 2012

BRADENTON -- You would think that a man about to appear before a judge on a drug paraphernalia charge would not bring to court, of all things, drug paraphernalia. Sheriff's deputies who check visitors for contraband at the Manatee County Judicial Center say a Bradenton man did just that, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. Deputies say they found a crack pipe stem on 32-year-old Stanley B ...

Myra Chanin: Mother Wonderful's Weird Headlines

7 Feb 2012

Everything I see, touch, hear or read is now weird, starting with this morning's headlines, which are especially weird.