According to groundbreaking new research, the reason that a beef burger tastes better than a veggie burger to some people has more to do with values than actual taste.

As Plaster Rock, NB residents enter a second month of no local emergency services, the residents have decided to voice their frustrations in a very public manner. Pressure mounts for the provincial health authorities to take decisive action.

Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in the world and soon it might be getting another title: "World's Highest Garbage Dump." According to estimates, there are nearly 120 tons of litter and 120 dead bodies on Mt. Everest.

Pineapple Express will not be released to theaters until August 8, but that has not stopped this citizen journalist from viewing an early screening of the film. Go ahead, scour the internet, it will be hard to find another review.

A serious virus that affects peach trees as well as other fruit trees within the stone fruit species, has been found in Western New York. While it poses no threat to humans, it does cause harm to the trees and surrounding orchards that bear the fruit.

Although the Canadian Federal Parliament has adjourned until mid-September, representatives of both the Conservative and Liberal parties have weighed in on the increased texting charges announced by Bell Canada and Telus.

According to a Florida judge that denied bond for Casey Anthony, she allegedly left her 2 year-old child with a person that doesn't exist, in an apartment that she could not identify and lied to her parents about her childs whereabouts.

Despite a large controversy not long ago about Barack Obama sitting in a church listening to Jeremiah Wright preach for 16 years, 12 percent of Americans still believe that Obama is Muslim.

A dissatisfied computer engineer has taken control of the city's computer network which holds most of the government data. He is refusing to give the password even after being arrested.

Canada's national crime rate, based on data reported by police, declined for the third consecutive year in 2007, continuing the downward trend in police-reported crime since the rate peaked in 1991.

A New York man filed a lawsuit against the restaurant Subway for serving him a sandwich containing a 7-inch blade. Luckily, he saw the blade before he took a bite of the sandwich.

After Jackson's scathing words, maybe Obama feels the sting from his own people. Or maybe he realizes it isn't his own kind at all. Regardless, Obama's focus is now on the Hispanic population and trying to win their votes.

About three weeks ago, inmates at the Westchester jail started complaining about being bitten by insects in their cells, and not long after, various officers started complaining of being bitten while they were out on patrol in different patrol cars.

A woman anonymously writes a column in the British newspaper called “The Times” where she is open about a sexual relationship with her own brother.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel is back in the news again, after it was discovered that he has been soliciting donations from businesses who have interests before the committee, for a new academic center which will bear his name.

Imagine pulling up to a stop light only to look over and see a bag of Cheetos on wheels sitting next to you. Across the country, the new trend in automobile fashion is adorning ones auto in tattoos of a common product, going "sticker car crazy."

Amro Worldwide is a travel agency that focuses in gay travel and in a series of ads with posters plastering the London subway regarding 6 U.S. cities. The state of South Carolina is in an uproar over the "South Carolina is so gay" advertisement.

Recently Jesse Jackson created a major firestorm with his stated desire to mutilate parts of Barack Obama's anatomy. Fox News held back other remarks that Jackson made, which have now been reported by TVNewser. Jackson called black people "niggers."

The entire town of 1,300 residents in Rock Port, Missouri receives electricity via wind power. The residents will be offered the same electricity rates for the next 20 years.

Sporting a "World's Greatest Dad" t-shirt, a 33-year-old man in Michigan was arrested in a sex sting operation after he arrived at a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.