An alcohol-related incident on a California freeway left morning commute traffic backed up for miles Thursday morning -- but it wasn't what you might think. . When westbound traffic on Interstate 10 came to an abrupt halt at about 6:30 a.m., a semi-truck driver avoided a collision by veering onto an off-ramp in West Covina.…

When a woman in Ireland spent good money on cocaine but got sugar instead, she did what anyone who's been ripped off would do: She called the cops. . In a transcript of the woman's 911 call, she tells the dispatcher, "I paid over [$366] and got brown sugar instead." The person who answered asks,…

For parents, there are a lot of upsides to buying a goldfish for a child: it's inexpensive, it doesn't have to be walked or picked up after, and it doesn't wake up everyone in the house whenever someone walks by outside. But there are some downsides, too. . Everett Hamlin found that out the hard…

The rate of cord-cutting, or ditching your pay-tv provider, has nearly doubled between 2017 and 2018, with 2.8 million Americans cutting the cord in 2018 alone, according to Leichtman Research. . Most of those Americans left satellite TV; 2.3 Americans decided to lose satellite in 2018.  DIRECTV took a major hit last year, losing 1.2…

British police are searching for a group of thieves who last week managed to steal 100 cellphones from fans attending a While She Sleeps concert. . Amazingly, all of the phones were lifted without their owners knowing anything had happened; they all discovered they'd been robbed after the fact, police said. Concertgoer Conor Burke, whose…

Angie and Michael Lee had to leave their state in order to get married. The Utah couple, who made a special trip to Colorado, are first cousins. . Angie told Salt Lake City television station KTVX, "We said OK this is crazy but we're adults now, we're single now, we're just going to go for it and who cares…

You know the drill: can't get to the food in your fridge so you toss it into the freezer hoping to extend the shelf life. While that may work for some items, it's not a good plan for every foodstuff. . Putting milk into the freezer will cause the liquid and fats to separate, creating a…

When does fast food no longer live up to its name? About 45 minutes after placing the order. Unfortunately pointing that fact out to the staff may cause a black eye or two. . Caught on camera and posted to Twitter, six employees at a Philadelphia Taco Bell beat up Bryan Reese after he complained that he…

While IRS refunds are said to be lower in 2019, two years ago Florida man managed to turn his tiny income into big money thanks to some light tax fraud. . Federal agents noticed something wasn't quite right after Ramon Christopher Blanchett filed his return, listing his free-lancer salary as $18,497 but with a million dollar deduction, netting the Tampa…

Here's a ringing endorsement for the smoothness of the ride that I'm pretty sure Tesla won't be promoting anytime soon. Video has surfaced of a guy napping while his Model 3 cruises down a Los Angeles highway, possibly on autopilot. . According to Seth Blake, who posted the footage to Twitter, the man was seen "straight snoozing going 75…