Chili Finger Incident

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Friday, May 6, 2005 On Thursday the 22nd of March, 2005, Anna Ayala, a woman from Las Vegas, claimed to have found a human finger in her bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant located at 1405 Monterey Highway, just south of downtown San Jose, California, owned by Fresno-based Jern Management.. The finger, which probably […]

Florida man charged with stealing Wi-Fi

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Update since publication This article mentions that Wi-Fi stands for “Wireless Fidelity”, although this is disputed. Thursday, July 7, 2005 A Florida man is being charged with 3rd degree felony for logging into a private Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) Internet access point without permission. Benjamin Smith III, 41, is set for a pre-trial hearing this month […]

Wikinews Shorts: February 3, 2010

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Contents 1 Christmas day bomber cooperating 2 Fire in Hyderabad hospital; 1 dead 3 China begins urgent sweep for tainted milk 4 Karachi violence escalates, section 144 imposed The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on […]

Warhol’s photo legacy spread by university exhibits

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Evansville, Indiana, United States — This past week marked the opening night of an Andy Warhol exhibit at the University of Southern Indiana. USI’s art gallery, like 189 other educational galleries and museums around the country, is a recipient of a major Warhol donor program, and this program is cultivating new […]

Darcy Richardson to seek Reform Party presidential nomination

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Friday, June 15, 2012 Darcy Richardson, the historian who challenged U.S. President Barack Obama in several 2012 Democratic Party primary races, has notified Wikinews he will now “actively seek” the presidential nominations of the Reform Party of the United States of America and several third parties with single-state ballot access. Richardson initially ran as a […]

Hawaii entertainer Don Ho dies at 76

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Monday, April 16, 2007 Don Ho, arguably one of Hawaii‘s best-known entertainers who entertained generations of tourists in Waikiki, died Saturday of heart failure. He was 76. Ho was pronounced dead at 11:59 a.m. Saturday at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu after collapsing at his Waikiki residence. In 2005, Ho was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and […]