A youth soccer coach went to the middle of a sports field in Windsor after a contentious match and pulled down his pants, exposing his buttocks to his opponents – a team of 14 and 15-year-old girls, authorities said today.

Several of the girls and their parents were offended by the action on Saturday and immediately called police, who plan to ask Sonoma County prosecutors to file misdemeanor indecent exposure charges against the coach from Petaluma, Windsor police Sgt. Steve Brown said. Continue Reading »

LONG BEACH, N.Y. —  Call it the misadventure of Captain Underpants and the Peeved Principal.

A suburban Long Island high school has banned all Halloween costumes after three senior girls showed up last year dressed as the underwear-baring subject of a series of best-selling children’s books.

Long Beach High School Principal Nicholas Restivo, who sent the three seniors home to change last year, said the episode solidified his sense that the school’s costume tradition was disruptive. Some gory get-ups might make students uncomfortable, he added. Continue Reading »

WATAUGA, Texas (AP) – A 5-year-old boy playing on train tracks fell and was unable to move before the train struck and killed him, police said.

Kevin Bradford and two other boys had sneaked past their grandmother to look for dinosaur bones on Thursday, police said.

Workers aboard the Union Pacific train traveling through the small North Texas town of Watauga saw the boys on the tracks but couldn’t stop in time, Union Pacific spokesman Joe Arbona said. Continue Reading »

HANOI –The worst outbreak of dengue fever in years has hit Southeast Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to call for better prevention campaigns as experts question whether global warming is partly to blame.

Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand have all experienced large outbreaks. Most of the victims are children who arrive at hospitals burning up with fever and crying from intense joint pain, a common symptom of the so-called “bone-breaker” disease. Continue Reading »

Exposure to hot baths or hot tubs can lead to male infertility, but the effects can sometimes be reversible, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco urologist.

Results from a three-year study analyzing data from infertile men who had been repeatedly exposed to high water temperatures through hot tubs, Jacuzzis or hot baths are reported in the March-April 2007 issue of “International Braz J Urol,” the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology. Study findings will be available online at www.brazjurol.com.br. Continue Reading »

Xbox is still celebrating its victory over the Wii with its newest Halo 3 release – but don’t think for a second that this is the only good game that we were looking forward to. We’ve compiled a list of some of the hottest titles that we can expect to see from Xbox over the coming months: Continue Reading »

Men who eat larger amounts of whole grain breakfast cereals may lower their risk of heart failure, according to new report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School in Boston studied the link between breakfast cereal consumption and cases of heart failure. In their study, researchers tracked 21,376 men, who were an average age of 53.7, and their intake of cereal and incidents of heart failure over more than 19 years. Continue Reading »

ANCHORAGE, Alaska —  A woman opened her chest freezer and made a grisly discovery: a body wrapped in plastic.

Police are investigating the incident as a homicide and have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspect, presumably the women’s grandson, who left the apartment were the body was found Saturday afternoon.

As of Sunday, the identity of the victim had not been determined, police said. Police have not released the gender of the victim. Continue Reading »

Kid Rock spent most of Sunday in jail after he got into a scuffle with a man outside a suburban Atlanta waffle house, cops said.

The rocker, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, and five members of his entourage were charged with simple battery after the predawn fight with a man police identified as Harlen Akins. The fracas erupted as Kid Rock and his crew pulled up at the Waffle House restaurant about 5:15 a.m. after a gig at The Tabernacle in Atlanta. Continue Reading »

James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for deciphering the double-helix of DNA, apologized “unreservedly” yesterday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.

In an interview published Sunday in The Times of London, Dr. Watson is quoted as saying that while “there are many people of color who are very talented,” he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa.” Continue Reading »