Presidential Race Will Be Won By Best Hypnotist
LAYTONVILLE, Calif. (TNA) – The presidential election isn’t for another 15 months, but one researcher is already picking the winner: the candidate with the best hypnotist.Dennis Weir, a trance research specialist in Laytonville, California, says brainwashing is an important...
Fortune Cookies Go From Yuppie To Puppy
SAN DIEGO (TNA) -- Dogs are upwardly mobile these days.They’re given lavish birthday parties, massages, and designer clothes, all the while shacking up in luxury dog houses and dining on filet mignon. And there’s one product in particular that solidifies the canine’s...
Former Cult Members Start Super Group
LOS ANGELES (TNA) – Sometimes, when you want to jump back in the rock game, you have to be willing to step out front.
Boston Artist Beaned By Terrorist Allegations
BOSTON (TNA) – “I went from putting up funny placards of cartoon characters one week to being shackled arms and legs in a tank-proof holding cell in a Charlestown jail.” So recalls Peter Berdovsky, the artist at the center of a fake bomb scare that rocked the city of...
Pink Pistols: Gays Who Go For Guns
SAN FRANCISCO (TNA) -- Thomas Boyer lays two revolvers and a semi-automatic pistol onto a steel bench and shows two new shooters how to operate each.Boyer has been shooting since he was six years old, owns several guns and organizes a shooting club. In a country where 150 million adults...
Comic Book Store Owner Faces Fine For Handing Adult Comic To Kid
ROME, Ga. (TNA) -- Traditionally, the greatest hardship faced among comic book dealers is keeping popular titles on the shelves, not getting jail time for selling them.Yet on August 13, Gordon Lee, owner of Legends, a comic book shop in Rome, Georgia, is scheduled to go...
Max Yasgur's Farm for Sale: Lists for $8 Million
NEW YORK (TNA) – Got an extra $8 million lying around? How about putting it into a farm?Max Yasgur's farm to be exact.Yasgur’s farm, which was the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, is now up for sale for $8 million – which isn’t...
The Smash Success of iPhone Smash
The iPhone is shaping up to be the must-have electronic accessory for the summer, with some 270,000 iPhones being snatched up in the first two days alone after its launch. But not everyone has been using the iPhone to make calls or listen to music—some have instead been...
Making Sense Of The Crime Roller Coaster
Tom Nolan was a newly promoted sergeant in the Boston Police Department in 1989. With 152 homicides, that year ranks as the most violent in the city’s modern history.On the midnight shift, Nolan would sit in a patrol car, listen to the gunshots and race from one bloody scene to the...
Britney Unloads House, Right After Unloading Hubby
LOS ANGELES (TNA) – Britney Spears is making a real housecleaning in her life.Just one day after her divorce from Kevin Federline became official, now comes word that she’s unloaded her house in Malibu for just under $12...
Next Great Internet Freebie: Breast Implants
SAN DIEGO (TNA) --First, there was free e-mail. Then free data storage and online photo albums. Now, a Los Angeles company has initiated what could be the next movement in online giveaways: free breast implants.MyFreeImplants.com, launched in June 2005, is a community-based web site that...
Some Gas Saving Tips Are Full Of Hot Air
McLEAN, Va. (TNA) – Gas prices look like they’ll be hovering near $3 per gallon for a while, and that is making some Americans try to do everything possible to get the most mileage out of their car.But saving gas doesn’t always save you money. For instance, shelling...
Mexican Coca-Cola Bottles Make Run For The Border
ATLANTA (TNA) -- Not all of the aliens sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico are human. Some are actually bottles of Coca-Cola. According to Coca-Cola spokesman Ray Crockett, there is a cult of Coke addicts who prefer the real thing made in Mexico to the stuff sold in...
Trolls Reveal Why They Stir The Cyber Pot
BOSTON (TNA) -- Back in the olden days, trolls were ugly little critters in fairy tales who tried to prevent the Three Billy Goats Gruff from crossing a bridge. Later, they were cute, wild-haired dolls collected by kids too young to be hippies.Yes, they had their detractors, but any...
Activist Fights to Save Elvis' Favorite Coaster
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (TNA)—The city of Memphis makes big bucks trying to keep Elvis Presley’s memory alive, but city leaders don’t have enthusiasm for preserving the King’s favorite roller coaster.However, one Elvis fan is running for City Council on a platform that...
Heidi Fleiss Gets Squeaky Clean – For The Birds
PAHRUMP, Nev. (TNA) -- For 14 years, Heidi Fleiss, erstwhile Hollywood Madam, has kept the collars of her A-list clientele, which reportedly included Marlon Brando, Charlie Sheen, and Jack Nicholson, starched and squeaky clean, maintaining a code of silence...
SAN DIEGO (TNA) --If you’ve got some cremated pet ashes lying around, there’s an artist in San Diego who’s dying to put them to good use. Daniel Ortega is the creator of "Ashwork," a medium that mixes pet "cremains"—or cremated...
Fame Is A Snap For Bobby Badfingers
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Ca. (TNA) – Some people march to the beat of a different drummer. Bobby Badfingers prefers to groove to a finger snap.His own, of course, because Badfingers is officially the world’s fastest finger snapper and makes his living performing all over the world at...
San Diego Man Launching New Airline $1 At A Time
SAN DIEGO (TNA) –A San Diego man may become America’s newest airline mogul if his dollar fundraising campaign is a success. San Diego entrepreneur Mike Quintana claims to be launching a new non-profit airline called People’s Air, and is raising funds via a grass roots...
