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By JoNel Aleccia A California man is vowing to continue his do-it-yourself sperm donor operation, despite efforts of federal health officials to crack down on the free service. Trent C. Arsenault, 36, of Fremont, Calif., told msnbc.com that he has fathered 14 children -- with four more on the way -- and donated sperm to between 60 and 75 families since he started the online operation in 2006. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy “Every time I log into Facebook, I’m overwhelmed with all the pictures from the families,” said Arsenault, who regards his donations as a way to help low-income people struggling with infertility. Last year, federal Food and Drug Administration officials delivered a letter ordering Arsenault to “cease manufacturing,” or halt his service, because the computer security expert had not followed regulations governing safety precautions for transmission of human cells or tissues through donor clinics. “We h...

A South Florida man willed his historic house worth $1 million to the U.S. government to help eliminate the country's growing debt. The Miami Herald reports that Uncle Sam put the Coral Gables house up for auction Saturday. The winning bid was $1.175 million.   The house belonged to James H. Davidson Jr. who lived there from his teenage years until he died last December at 87. He also left $1 million to the government. The Herald reports Davidson had nieces and nephews who live in the area. Barbara Perez was high bidder on the 1929 Spanish style home. Officials say 700 people toured the home last week and 15 registered to participate in the auction. The government will auction off the contents on the home in January. Copyright Associated Press

It's a stereotype as old as dating itself: women seeking guys for material gain, and guys seeking women for their beauty. But when 25-year-old Jessica Sporty spoke honestly about her brief but calculated plan to date men of means while living in New York, her confession sparked outrage online. BusinessInsider.com, the website that featured the interview with Sporty last week, eventually disabled the article's comment section, but angry readers continued to vent on other websites that had picked up the story. Some people called her a "gold digger" and others called her "obscene." After the fallout, Sporty -- who now lives in California -- sat down with "Good Morning America" to tell her side of the story. "I'm a traditional girl," she said. "And to me, I feel a part of dating is if a guy wants to take me out, what's wrong with him taking me out to a dinner and me expecting for the bill to be paid?" Sporty said s...

PEOPLE ARE GROSS... A restaurant boss who offered women college scholarships in return for being allowed to spank them has been jailed for two years. Henry Allen Fitzsimmons of Virginia pleaded guilty to sexual battery after five victims claimed they had been assaulted by him. The 54-year-old set up a scholarship programme that he claimed was aimed at helping young women get into college. Those who signed up had to agree to a set of rules - and be spanked if they broke the rules. One woman claimed she met Firzsimmons at a hotel for what she thought was a counseling session but instead endured a 20 minute spanking session that left her covered with welts and bruises. The victim told police she thought she was being offered a monthly allowance and place to live. Fitzsimmons used a fibre glass paddle and riding crop to beat the women. Several other women said they were short of cash when they signed on for what Fitzsimmons called the Spencer Scholarship Program. Pro...

While the Internet has since moved on to such awkwardly awkwardly posed photos such as horsemaning, coning, owling, Tebowing or whatever, in Wisconsin you can still get arrested for planking . Two brothers were charged with disorderly conduct after police came across Facebook photos and a YouTube video of the two on a "planking spree," which included stiff-as-a-board poses atop a memorial monument, a police squad car, a bank ATM machine, and merchandise displays at Walmart and Lowe's stores, " the Smoking Gun reports . Approached individually by the police, both Alexander Hart, 19 and Ryan Hart, 21, first claimed the photos were Photoshopped before finally fessing up. Planking, in review , is the apparently super-fun practice of having one's photo snapped while lying board-stiff in an awkward location, for the purpose of uploading that photo to Facebook. The fad originated in the UK, but blew up big in Australia earlier this year after the Planking page ...

By Linda Carroll It sounds like a plot right out of a TV movie: A woman paralyzed since the age of 13 miraculously regains feeling in her legs and is able to walk again after being injured in a traffic accident. But that’s exactly what 27-year-old Monique van der Vorst says happened to her two years ago. Van der Vorst had turned to hand-cycling after losing feeling in her legs as a teen. She got so good that she won two silver medals in the Paralympics. Two years ago while she was on the road training for the 2012 Paralympics, Van der Vorst was mowed down by a speeding bicyclist. While in the hospital after the collision with the bicyclist, van der Vorst says she suddenly developed a tingling in her legs -- and within a year she was walking again. This week the announcement came that she’d joined a pro-cycling team and was looking forward to competing at the Olympics as an able-bodied athlete. Van der Vorst’s doctors haven’t been able to come up with an explanation for her m...

TAVARES — George McCovery shed 25 pounds in 20 days on the "lose-a-pound, gain-a-day" plan suggested by Lake County Judge Donna Miller, but he wouldn't necessarily recommend the diet to others. Miller, who sentenced McCovery, 37, earlier this month for driving with a suspended license, promised the 345-pound hypertensive man that she would shrink his stay at the Lake County Jail by one day for every pound he lost while in custody. After 20 days in the slammer, where he limited his intake mostly to vegetables on his dinner tray, he weighed in Monday at 320 pounds, and Miller cut him loose early — in time for turkey-day sweet-potato pie at home in West Palm Beach. "It's not easy to lose weight. I thought he'd lose 5, maybe, 6 pounds — not 25," said Miller, 64, who has often dished out creative sentences during her 17 years as a county judge. "It's like [sentencing] someone in a drug case. I'd much rather have them stop doing drugs than ...

M EXICO CITY — Six inmates from the last island penal colony in the Americas were recaptured at sea Thursday after they used buoyant containers and wood planks to try to swim to freedom in an escape reminiscent of the 1973 movie "Papillon." The Mexican Navy said the inmates used empty plastic gas or water tanks to help stay afloat as they swam about 60 miles south of the Islas Marias, a Mexican penal colony where inmates live in small houses and are normally not locked up. Prisoners can tend small gardens and raise food. The six men were only about 58 miles from the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta when they were spotted by a passing boat early Thursday. Sunburned The boat called in a tip to a local naval base, and patrol boats were quickly dispatched to take the men into custody. Photos provided by the Navy showed them men sunburned but alert — and unhappy — on the deck of the patrol vessel. The men, who ranged in age from 28 to 39 years, were taken back to...

(YAHOO)The mayor of a Salt Lake City, Utah, suburb has confessed to creating a fake name to write stories for area newspapers in order to disseminate "good news" about his town. West Valley Mayor Mike Winder admitted he used the name Richard Burwash to contribute more than a dozen stories over a two-year span. Winder got his falsely bylined pieces published by the Deseret News , Oquirrh Times and on KSL.com . KSL-5 News also reported that a photo taken by Winder--but credited to R. Burwash--appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune in October 2010. Winder quoted himself in his stories and used anonymous city employees as sources, Deseret News said . Winder created a fake email account for Richard Burwash to communicate with his editors and pretended to be Burwash in phone conversations with them. He even created a faux Facebook profile for his pen-name, taking a photo from a Google image search. The mayor also admitted that one of the stories published was written by his sist...

(Reuters)We can't imagine this would be very comfortable: An Oregon woman who killed, gutted, and posed inside the carcass of her own horse was not found guilty of breaking any laws. Jasha Lottin, a 21-year-old Portland resident, had been caring for a 32-year-old horse with her boyfriend. The animal's health was quickly declining, so the two decided to humanely shoot the animal, remove its innards, and eat it, according to MSNBC.com . Before grilling up the horse meat, Lottin posed inside of the animal as well as outside of it, covered in its blood, guts, and organs. Her reasoning: She wanted to know what it felt like to be inside of a dead horse. Lottin posted the pictures online and they were found by a North Carolina resident. Shockingly, authorities could not find any laws that she has broken. Even so, that doesn't mean Lottin is in the clear; frighteningly, her mother said she has received death threats because of the pictures. If Lottin wants to try fi...

NEW YORK — The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing. For instance: “He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend, that I should get a guy who takes me out to dinner,” Ms. Zucker said. “He mocked me for being from Westchester.” Early in the morning on Oct. 22, a Saturday, Ms. Zucker, 21, and her friend Alex Fischer, also 21, were stopped by the police in Riverside Park and given tickets for trespassing. Mr. Fischer was permitted to leave after he produced his driver’s license. But Ms. Zucker, on a visit to New York City with a group of Carnegie Mellon University seniors looking for jobs in design industries, had left her wallet in a hotel two blocks away. She was handcuffed. For the next 36 hours, she was moved from a cell in the 26th Precinct station house on West 126th Street to central booking in Lower Manhattan and then — because one of the officer...

Sometimes choosing a fruit is difficult. Do you want a grape? Too small. An apple? Too appley. What if I told you that you could have both at the same time? A fruit-based product called the Grapple let's you have the satisfying size and crunch of an apple with the delicious taste of a grape! No, we're not kidding. According to MarketWatch , Grapples (pronounced grape-ells) are an annual treat that's quickly growing in popularity, especially when it comes to children. The seasonal items, which are sold from October through May, begin as Washington State Gala apples or Fuji apples. The apples are bathed in a patented mix of Concord grape flavor and water. The Grapple brand's website boasts that the process does not add sugar or calories to the apples. The apples also maintain their red color. Currently, they are sold in packs of four at $2.99-$3.99 each. In a time when diets like the trendy caveman diet and even fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's are promot...

1. lipstick remover Kiss that smudge of Really Red good-bye. If the fabric is machine washable, saturate the spot with hair spray, let it sit for 10 minutes, then dab with a damp cloth or sponge to remove. Launder as usual to wash out any residual stain and spray. 2. stocking saver The polymers that hold up an updo can also reinforce the toes of your hose. Spray after each wash to help prevent nylons from running. 3. artwork protector Hanging kids' art in a high-traffic area, like the refrigerator door? A light coating of hair spray will keep chalk or dried, flaky paint from brushing off. 4. petal preserver Spray fragile dried flowers to help them stay put on their stems. (Here's hoping your wedding bouquet sees its silver anniversary.) 5. gum unsticker Free chewed Juicy Fruit from the carpet without wasting a wad of time. Douse the gum with hair spray to harden it quickly, then scrape it off with a knife. 6. shoeshine fix A light spritz of hair spray gives newl...

By Rosa Golijan Google Street View — the Google Maps feature which provides panoramic views of streets — is getting a little upgrade. It is now able to take you off the streets and inside some buildings. BBC News reports that an extension of the Google Street View project will provide users with 360-degree views of some building interiors. This means that you'll essentially be able to take a virtual tour of certain places. Now before you panic and worry about privacy, it's worth noting that participation in this project is entirely voluntary and focuses on businesses such as restaurants, hotels, shops and gyms — and excludes private residences and locations such as law offices or hospitals. Whew! That settles some fears, right? Even more reassuring are Google's guidelines for the businesses which opt to participate in the project: Business owners are told they must warn their customers and employees about the photoshoot before it begins. Google has promised it ...

Laura Chavez, 60, of Santa Fe, N.M., is accused of repeatedly stabbing her boyfriend, Clyde “Butch” Smith, 48, when a family game of Monopoly went terribly awry. Chavez began to argue with Smith while playing the board game with her 10-year-old grandson. The boy told police that Chavez accused Smith of cheating at Monopoly, and then sent the boy to bed around 11 p.m. mid-argument. According to a probable cause statement released by police, the couple’s dispute escalated until Chavez hit Smith over the head with a glass bottle, then grabbed a knife and began to cut him on his head, neck, face, arms and hand. Chavez’s grandson slept through the physical altercation, waking up when police arrived in his bedroom, according to the statement. Police said Smith was in stable condition at St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was taken by ambulance after the attack. Doctors told police Smith was “very intoxicated” when he arrived. Police said Chavez’s apartment was covered in blood from...

(AP)A disgruntled customer apparently threw a Molotov cocktail outside the drive-through window of an Albany, Ga., Taco Bell after complaining that his two XXL Taco Bell chalupas weren’t living up to their promise of having extra meat. The man, whom police and Taco Bell employees were unable to identify because of poor-quality surveillance footage, called the Taco Bell around 4 a.m. demanding more meat for his chalupas, the police report stated. When manager Cynthia Thompson told the customer she would be unable to accommodate his request because the restaurant was closing, she said he replied: “That’s alright, I’ll just come and redecorate the place.” Shortly after, a gasoline odor was traced to just outside the drive-through window, where Thompson found a fire and a melting plastic bottle filled with liquid, which the Albany Fire Department identified as a Molotov cocktail. Police have filed a request to subpoena the Taco Bell location’s phone records in an effort to identify...

After making the news the other day, DJ Cipha Sounds has put HOT 97 in the limelight...again. Watch:                                                            Tell 'em why yall mad. And here's DJ Ciphas apology: When will people stop trash talking anyway?!? In response to pressure from local activists, HOT 97 announced a three-part plan to address a recent comment made on-air by DJ Cipha Sounds. First, the station announced that DJ Cipha Sounds has been suspended indefinitely. Second, Cipha will undertake sensitivity training focused on the Haitian community and specifically, the challenges the Haitian community has faced in terms of the HIV epidemic. Lastly,...

This right here is the ultimate C'Mon Son..... Ed Lover needs to grab this clip and give this the super Gas face C'mon Son Face. This dude records himself, riding around trying to give French Montana a brick of Powder, Could be flower, could be Dope who knows. Whichever it is thats a long case right. Where they do that at? SMH this is extra wack. Ya'll better watch out this is what the Rap game is coming to. FED movements

Kevin Hart speaks on the Burning hair incident, talks about his show, and more. Speaks on "Seriously Funny" is 3 Times Platinum. Also speaks about his worst comedy show he ever had, and coming up with new material

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man is accused of killing a woman because she answered her phone while they were having sex. A criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County charges 46-year-old Garron Lewis with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of 44-year-old Sharron Dorsey over the Thanksgiving weekend. The complaint says Lewis went to another man's house Nov. 27 and was crying when he told him he had killed Dorsey. When the man asked why, Lewis said that he killed her because she answered her phone during sex. The complaint alleges Lewis confessed to a detective that he killed Dorsey by strangling her with a belt. The Milwaukee County medical examiner's report says Dorsey died of asphyxiation due to strangulation . fox6now.com