Amy Sciarretto

A new survey on hand washing has revealed that 70 percent of Americans always wash their hands after using a public restroom, while 29 percent sometimes skip that ever-important, germ-killing step. And yes, 1 percent confessed to never washing their hands after using a public bathroom.

Few things are as aggravating as screaming children on cross-country flights, or the ones who remain quiet all the while booting your chair with rhythmic incessancy. A couple with 14 week old twin boys was more than aware of this fact and as a pre-emptive measure when flying cross-country from San Francisco, they handed out plastic bags of candy to fellow passengers to placate them in anticipation

It has long been rumored that Katie Holmes auditioned for the role of Tom Cruise’s missus via the controversial Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a high-ranking member. That claim has been disputed, but a new blockbuster Vanity Fair article claims that Holmes wasn’t the first choice for Cruise’s wife.

By nature, the gym isn’t usually a place that smells good, since it’s where people go to work out and to get sweaty and dirty while burning calories.

Late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is being honored in the most amazing of ways, and not just by having Sacha Baron Cohen portray him in an biopic. The vocalist is now an honorary member of the Angry Birds family.

When a factory issue Slip ‘n’ Slide just won’t do the trick on those blazing hot days when you need to cool off, you have to use your brain and get creative. Like this group of friends who had the wherewithall to turn a storm drain into a quarter-mile, homemade water slide.

Colin MacKenzie and Jessica Angel are really into one another and they don’t care who knows it. The amorous couple has annoyed neighbors by having such loud sex that the police have been called to intervene a total of 20 times in the past four months.

An elderly Alabama widower is doing battle with local officials over his right to keep his late wife’s remains buried in the front yard of his home.

Natalie Portman –that newly-married MILF who earned an Academy Award for unraveling in ‘Black Swan,’ which was essentially ‘The Wrestler’ in tutus – has shed her clothes again. She dropped her top for a Dior ad.

New York City businessman Frank Mandelbaum, the founder of Intellicheck, an ID verification system, left behind a very specific request for his gay son, Robert, in his will, should he have any children — marry the mother or the children will be left with nothing.

Don’t let their Ringling Brothers makeover fool you, Insane Clown Posse will not be screwed with.

Once again, the idea that no good deed goes unpunished proves itself to be true.