Joyous Kansas working girls are lap-dancing in the streets after the state Supreme Court ruled that strip-club performers are entitled to unemployment-insurance payments in the event of layoffs.
A consortium of club owners had claimed the gals were merely “independent contractors” working for tips, but now the biz owners have to kick in to the state unemployment- insurance fund.
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Maybe she wanted to see his long-form return.
An Oregon resident claims in a lawsuit that a female IRS auditor strong-armed him into a sexual relationship by suggesting it was the only way he could get out of tax trouble.
After beginning an audit, the woman allegedly showed up at his home and threatened him with tax penalties if he didn’t put out.
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Residents of Broward County, Fla., have been given a unique choice: death or taxes.
A ballot initiative asks voters to accept a property-tax increase to fund animal-shelter alternatives to euthanizing strays.
The increase would cost the owner of a typical $200,000 home an additional $21.57 extra a year.
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This isn’t exactly the breakfast of champions.
A diner in the English seaside town of Norfolk is busting British bellies with something called the “Kidz Breakfast,” which weighs nine pounds and includes a dozen sausages, eggs and huge hunks of Canadian bacon, along with a pile of potatoes.
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This princess has finally gotten her slipper back.
The footwear of Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, Princess Pauline Borghese, for 140 years had been sitting, totally forgotten, deep in the bowels of a museum in Scotland.
They were recently uncovered by researchers, although way too late to be slipped onto her feet and enabling her to live happily ever after.