All dogs go to heaven, but heaven is so jejune. Fortunately for NYPD's finest equine officers, a former New York Corrections employee and farrier is immortalizing their gorgeous forms through art. Specifically, by assembling and repositioning their skeletons after death. Walter Varcoe, who ran the farm program at Otisville Correctional facility in 2004, tells the Lexington Herald-Leader that horses are his muse. "I find horses just beautiful, and (seeing their skeletons) impresses me even more that they can do what they do." more ›

A former NYC resident has been arrested in connection with the bizarre collar bomb hoax earlier this month that traumatized an American teenager living in Australia. Yesterday FBI SWAT Teams swooped down "heavy and hard" with machine guns to arrest Australian man Paul "Doug" Peters, 50, who is accused of breaking into the home of William Pulver, the CEO of an information technology company in Sydney. Prosecutors say Peters, wearing a mask, strapped a realistic-looking bomb to 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver's neck and pinned a hand-written note to her chest with a list of explicit instructions and threats. Then he allegedly fled, leaving to face a grueling 10-hour ordeal. more ›

Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has jumped into Kentucky's Senate race not just because he's a nationally known Republican—it's because the two Republican candidates have been talking about 9/11! Rand Paul—yes, son of Rep. Ron Paul (R)—and Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson are vying to take retiring Senator Jim Bunning's seat, and the race is so heated that Paul aired an ad showing footage of NYC and the Pentagon on 9/11, which made Grayson upset enough to roll out an ad saying that Paul thinks America deserved the 9/11 attacks...and then Paul put out another one... Seriously, check out these ads: more ›

The airline that diverted a flight when a Jewish passenger started praying said it was forced to treat the incident as a bomb scare because the teen didn't clearly explain why he had strapped his tefillin — two small black boxes worn by Orthodox Jews during weekday morning prayers — to his head and arm. According to Chautauqua Airlines, which was operating the US Airways Flight from LaGuardia to Kentucky, "[w]hen our crew tried to discuss the issue with the passenger, they did not receive a clear response." more ›

From far-distant Appalachia, a story of a census worker in Clay County "found hanging on a tree and the word 'Fed' was written on his chest." In a startlingly apt bit of government idiocy, a spokesman for the FBI said they were still trying to determine "if there was foul play involved" or if his employment had something to do with his death. more ›

Senator Hillary Clinton won the Kentucky primary 2-to-1 over Senator Barack Obama, thanks to strong support from working class whites. According to Kentucky exit polls, seven in ten whites supported Clinton which, per the AP, included "about three quarters of those who have not completed college," resulting in her winning 65% to Obama's 30%. more ›

Big Brown fulfilled his role as the favorite, winning yesterday's 134th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs by four and three-quarters lengths. But the victory of Big Brown and jockey Kent Desormeaux was overshadowed by the death of the second place finisher, Eight Belles. more ›

Three UPS employees and a fourth man were arrested earlier this week after police followed a package filled with heroin to a 29th St. address. The package had been identified as being filled with drugs at a UPS distribution hub in Kentucky. more ›

A 7-year-old New York City boy has joined a growing number of children who’ve had the horrifying experience of getting their feet mangled by escalators while wearing popular plastic clogs made by Crocs. The boy’s mother says the accident happened in a Kentucky airport:

”All of a sudden I hear this excruciating screaming from Nicky and I turn around and his little foot is being sucked into the side of the escalator. It's just like chewing up his foot.” more ›