The city has gotten so many calls about the phantom pooper that they've set up a pooper stake out to see if they could catch him doing his business. picked by DemureArt 11 months ago

City Commissioner Sam Adams is pushing a plan to impose a fee on grocery bags. Paper or plastic.
Adams, who hopes to have the fee in place before he takes over as mayor next year, said he has yet to decide how much to charge. But he's discussing that the City Council vote for a fee ranging anywhere from a nickel to 20 cents per bag. picked by muppet 1 month ago

Officials in Kiryat Yam, a small city in northern Israel, have filed a complaint with police against the Internet search engine Google. The city argues that one of Google’s programs, Google Earth, gives viewers false information that offends the city’s image. picked by Ionb 6 months ago

NEW York authorities unfurled a new official city condom Wednesday in time for Valentine's Day with a "Get Some" tagline, a new colorful wrapper and a campaign unfortunately described as cutting-edge. picked by maxriter 7 months ago

New York City officials say Bon Jovi will play at a free concert in Central Park on July 12th. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

The revitalized "Think" electric car plant at Aurskog, northeast of Oslo, has been deluged with buyer interest in the new "Think City" model that's due to roll off the assembly line at the end of the year.
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Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the... read full post picked by thenegativeone 9 months ago

Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant. picked by lpoindexter 3 months ago

That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." picked by deepchill 7 months ago

Some really funny city names picked by kamaloo 10 months ago

New Orleans (La.) City Insane Asylum Record of Patients, 1882-1884; 1888 This volume contains information on insane patients visited by the City Physician and recommended to the State Asylum. For each patient, the record includes name, race, sex, age, place of birth (in general terms), type of insanity and sometimes a description of the patient's behavior. An index is included at the end of the v... read full post picked by DaftGretel 2 years ago

A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis. picked by deepchill 7 months ago

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A woman in a motorized wheelchair slammed into a hotel elevator, forcing the doors to open, and then fell about 30 feet down the shaft early Saturday, a city fire official said. picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

A northern Chinese city has banned the use of "seductive" words like "foxy lady," "handsome guy" and "moneybags" in marriage advertisements in a bid to stamp out fraud. picked by Proverb 10 months ago

Times Square has evolved over the past century from a bustling theater district to a symbol of crime and decay and now to a sanitized entertainment mecca, pumps about $55 billion a year directly into the city's economy, more than the combined economies of Bolivia and Panama, according to a new study. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Man arrested at Circuit City for not showing receipt at door. But who's really at fault? picked by hypnotode 1 year ago

In a ding-dong battle between a Catholic church and city fathers, a priest is being slapped with a 5,000-euro fine each time he rings his church bell to call his flock to early morning Mass. picked by muppet 1 year ago

A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. picked by Neiako 2 years ago

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A drunken man's threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday. "One push of the button will blow up half of Brisbane," Fryatt shouted in the standoff last May before police in the Queensland state capital opened fire with rubber bullets. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

Spending time behind bars in New York City might turn out to be good for your health.

*Next to be offered, mandatory Pilates. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago