Randy McCoy

Two years ago, a 25-year-old man from Afghanistan sought help from doctors in Germany because he had headaches for years and his vision began to worsen in one eye. Turns out the man had spent 15 years with a pencil lodged in his head. The man had no idea how the pencil got there stating he does remember falling as a child.

Actor Rob Lowe from the 1980’s Brat Pack films and currently starring in Parks and Recreation will play President John F. Kennedy in a National Geographic drama called ‘Killing Kennedy’.  The movie, a two hour factual drama, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 assassination of JFK.

New plastic based Canadian money was introduced in November of 2011 and has now begun circulating around the country, and something seems strange about the new currency. Some Canadians seems to think it smells exactly like Canadian maple syrup. A newspaper tested the $100 bills by sniffing them and the consensus was they smell like syrup.

Just as the spring and summer grilling seasons are getting under way, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the price of beef is on the rise. Record high prices could mean we’ll be paying more for beef at the supermarkets. The U.S. cattle and calf herd is at its lowest since 1952.

On May 27th, 1937 at 6 am, a foghorn sounded signaling the official opening of the Golden Gate Bridge for people to walk across it. Nearly 200,000 people took advantage of the day by walking, running, roller-skating and even dancing across the bridge. In 1937 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world and of course, San Francisco’s major landmark. The following day, May 28th, 1937, the brid

Cookie jars, for many years, have been a place people put money to either save or to just have around the house. Ricardo Cerezo, a Chicago man, would buy lottery tickets and stuff them in his cookie jar.  He didn’t check the tickets before storing them in the cookie jar, thinking if he did need cash, maybe one of the tickets would have a little money on it for a rainy day.

While we enjoyed a three-day weekend for the celebration of Memorial Day, which is always the last Monday in May, the next holidays on the calendar are Flag Day on Friday, June 14th and Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16th but neither of those holidays offer us a three-day weekend.

Kind of a bizarre story from Kennewick, Washington, when a woman’s SUV was stolen from the parking lot of her apartment complex but she still had to go to work. She filed a police report and got a ride to the local McDonald’s where she works ...

About six months ago, around 15 pounds of Mars rocks fell to Earth and NASA has just confirmed the rock is indeed from the red planet. The meteor was found in Morocco by meteor hunters and you can now buy a piece of Mars.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones recently said when he was a child he loved to hang out at the local library and read, which is all well and good; the only problem is he checked out books, but never returned them. A receptionist at the Dartford Library said going back 50 years to find out how much he would owe is tough.

Paula Deen, the T.V cook with her southern comfort food, may have a childhood home in Albany, Georgia, turned into a museum. Paula’s first husband, Jimmy Deen, and businesswoman B.J Fletcher have the idea to create a museum to celebrate Deen’s type of cooking.

Four tourists from the United States visiting Iceland thought it would a ‘cool’ idea to have dinner on an ice floe, so they set up chairs and a table and got ready to sit down to eat. The problem for them came when a gust of wind pushed the ice away from land.

I never imagined a day when red ants or fire ants would be a welcome sight but, once you get invaded by ‘crazy ants’, you may long for the good old days. Tawny crazy ants, scientifically called Nylanderia fulva, are invading the Southern area of the United States and they are much worse than red ants.

The idea of a ‘green’ funeral appeals to some people and a funeral home in Eugene, Oregon, has taken ‘green’ to another level. They offer one final ride for the dearly departed on three-wheeled bicycle.  The coffin is made of bamboo, which is eco-friendly.

The $590 million Powerball jackpot was hit by only one person that lives in Zephyrhills, Florida. Zephyrhills has a big ties to Maine as it is the community in Florida that has the most people from Maine. In fact, this past February, the 60th annual Maine Day reunion was held ...

CNN Travel put out a list they call ‘Classic American Experiences’, these are things they consider authentic American experiences. 1.       Seaside Boardwalks. The first was built in Atlantic City, New Jersey but there are others ...