A politician wants to put more evening sunshine in the Sunshine State.
A Democratic Florida state legislator who dislikes earlier winter sunsets has introduced a bill to keep the state on daylight saving time all year around.
Of course, state Sen. Darren Soto apparently doesn’t mind later winter sunrises.
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Scientists have come up with a new way to save endangered cheetahs — using dogs as life coaches.
Some zoos are paring puppies with 3-month-old cheetahs to make the big cats grow up calmer and more likely to eat well and breed (with other cheetahs, in case you were wondering) in captivity.
“It’s a love story of one species helping another survive,” said Jack Grisham of the St. Louis Zoo.
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A graduate student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania is suing the school for giving her a C+ in a key class.
The grade halted Megan Thode’s bid to become a licensed professional counselor because she needed a B to move on.
She claims the instructor was biased against her over her advocacy of gay and lesbian rights, which the school denies.
She is demanding $1.3 million in compensation.
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A peeping Tom was caught by some tomcats.
A Washington state man allegedly drilled a hole through his floor so he could spy on his downstairs neighbor.
She didn’t notice the creep looking down on her until she noticed her cats constantly staring up at the tiny hole in her ceiling.
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Harry Potter better stay out of Chechnya.
The new ruler of the former Soviet republic has begun a heavy-handed crackdown on wizards.
Ramzan Kadyrov has called popular Chechen faith-healers, known locally as wizards, “charlatans.”
“Turning to wizards . . . is banned by Islam,” he raged in a recent speech.