The investigation into the death of a baby who authorities believe was heated in a microwave oven was difficult because of a lack of research on the effect of microwaves on people, a coroner's official said.

Police Say Mother Microwaved Her Baby

"Wal-Mart has yanked a baby-crib accessory from its shelves after parents all across the country complained it disseminates a subliminal message of hate, but you wouldn't know it unless you called the major retailer. 'We felt it was an item that wasn't up to our quality of standards,' Wal-Mart spokesperson Karen Burk told WorldNetDaily in explanation of why the toys were removed from stores' shelves nationwide earlier this year... a Vancouver, Wash., family discovered the toy they unsuspectingly attached to their 6-month-old son's crib utters the words 'I hate you' amid the rhythmic ocean sounds designed to lull the baby asleep."

Wal-Mart Yanks Chinese Baby Toy Over Subliminals

"A Kentucky man found guilty Wednesday of murdering his wife was convicted based in part because of a homemade rap video he made about the killing. Jurors recommended a sentence of life in prison for Dennis R. Greene, 31, of Lakeside Park, in northern Kentucky, for the May 4 death of Tara Barrett Greene, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported... Just hours after killing his wife, Greene made a rap video in an apartment in Chicago, where he'd fled and was eventually captured. The video showed Greene relaxing, smoking marijuana and admitting that he told his boss he would not be at work the next day because he was going home to fight with his wife... I really don't care about tomorrow. Hell, you try to dare me, the fucking bitch made me mad. I put it on paper, hell yeah, I'm still sad. She kept at me so I had to take her fucking life... I cut her motherfucking neck with a sword."

Murderer Convicted Thanks to Crappy Rap Video

"The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that a technique the FBI has used for decades to match bullets to crimes is flawed... The study's publication next month could open the door to hundreds, even thousands of appeals, and give defense lawyers in future cases new ammunition for undermining expert testimony... The findings are the latest in a string of controversies and embarrassments this year to hit the FBI lab, which pledged to remake itself after a scandal in the 1990s over bad science."

More Bad News for FBI Crime Lab

"The inside of Michael Jackson's creepy lair was revealed for the first time yesterday. A shocking video shows a secret room behind a trapdoor at Jackson's California mansion - where he apparently entertained kids who slept over... The 45-year-old's covert cubbyhole is a twisted version of a child's bedroom. A bed is adorned with pillow cases imprinted with Peter Pan's face and the word Neverland. Sitting on the bed is a red-headed, bug-eyed stuffed doll, and on a nightstand next to the bed is a Mickey Mouse telephone... On the walls are framed pictures of smiling diapered babies, which the TV show said were not Jackson's children."

Michael Jackson's Secret Bedroom

"The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its outrage at what it claims is a Mormon scheme to buy up the names of dead Russians in order to baptise 'dead souls' in their faith... in the town of Nizhni Novgorod, east of Moscow, the Church of the Latter Day Saints has paid ten US cents for each page of thousands of names of dead people dating mainly from the late eighteenth century to be put on a microfilm... Yevgeny Smirnov, from the Nizhni Novgorod Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and adviser to the Moscow Mormon region, said: 'Our church aims to create a database permitting people to look for their ancestors. Our ceremony is not rebaptism; it only gives the soul of the deceased person the freedom of choice to accept our belief or to reject it.'"

Mormons Buying Up Russian Souls

Once again, Veterans Day went by without anybody in the mainstream media pointing out that our Commander in Chief is a draft dodger. It is well documented that George W. Bush's daddy pulled some strings and got him into the Texas Air National Guard. Then he got himself transferred to Alabama, where he was destined to serve with distinction... except, he never showed up. Basically, Bush decided to ditch his military duties for about a year. And yet, for some reason, he was never charged with desertion. Not to mention the fact that Bush was grounded for several months after refusing to submit to a routine physical exam in 1972. [One possible motive: the exam would have included a compulsory drug test.]

Media Continues to Ignore Bush's Military Record

Microsoft took a public file server offline Tuesday after Internet users discovered that the system contained scores of internal Microsoft documents, including a huge customer database with millions of entries.

Microsoft Spills Customer Data

During closed door negotiations before the debate began, the House Republican leadership inserted the 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) into the Homeland Security bill. CSEA expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more latitude to disclose information to police.

Bill Could Jail Hackers for Life

A Silverthorne, Colo., family is praying their dead 2 year old will rise from the dead. Zion Jungck died Sunday when a filing cabinet fell on him in the family living room. Valerie and Paul Jungck said they are praying for a miracle and have turned his fate over to God. "It's legal," said Dave Joslin, the Summit County coroner. "But it doesn't happen every day."

Family Keeps Son's Body, Prays Resurrection