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Alabama House Bill 56: The Immigrant Trespassing Law Explained

Mar 8, 2011 - 4:01 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

A new bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration is causing controversy in Alabama. House Bill 56, modeled on similarly controversial immigration legislation in Arizona, passed the Alabama House...

Man's Ashes Stolen From Church Right Before His Funeral

Mar 8, 2011 - 3:58 PM |Patch

The wife and son of a man whose cremated remains were stolen from a California church are appealing to the thief to return the ashes, but they are trying to be philosophical about the loss. Marvin...

Tiger Blood Drink: 5 Winning Variations on the Charlie Sheen Inspired Beverage

Mar 8, 2011 - 3:55 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

It all started with Charlie Sheen's humble description of his impeccable circulatory system. In a now legendary interview with NBC's Today Show, Sheen boasted that he was not like ordinary people in...

Man Gets Long Prison Term for Killing College Dance Student

Mar 8, 2011 - 3:38 PM |AOL News

An upstate New York man was sentenced today to 23 years to life in prison for strangling his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in a wooded park. Steven Pieper, 21, apologized in the Syracuse court,...

Michael Woodmansee: 5 Facts About the Murderer and Alleged Cannibal

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:58 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

It was an unspeakable crime: a 5-year-old boy murdered, the perpetrator allegedly eating part of his victim. Now, Michael Woodmansee, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1983, may be...

This 60-Year-Old Mother Just Hatched a New Chick

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:30 PM |AOL News

John Klavitter, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Wisdom just had another baby. And the fact that she's hatching new chicks six decades after her own birth is only one of the noteworthy achievements of this Laysan albatross, the oldest known wild...

US 'Heartland' Near Historic Shift From Midwest

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:26 PM |AP

WASHINGTON -- America's population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation's...

Redondo Beach Dead Fish Another Sign of the Apocalypse? Twitter Thinks So

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:20 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

It sure has been a tough year for animals, but has it been of biblical proportions? As news of a massive fish kill at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, Calif., spread across the Internet on Tuesday,...

Suspect Dead in St. Louis; 2 U.S. Marshals, Officer Wounded

Mar 8, 2011 - 1:59 PM |AOL News

Christian Gooden, St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP

A shooting broke out in St. Louis this morning as authorities tried to serve an arrest warrant, leaving a suspect dead and two deputy U.S. marshals and a St. Louis police officer wounded, authorities...

They say life imitates art. For Charlie Sheen, that seems increasingly true. Sheen's recent shenanigans -- from the machete to the tiger blood -- have raised lots of questions. Is he on drugs?...