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Local Anchor Accidentally Reports President Obama Is Dead

Aaron Galloway — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:26:29 +0000

When breaking news occurs, mistakes are bound to be had.

Unfortunately, one local news anchor for Washington, D.C., Fox affiliate WTTG learned this the hard way last night while reporting on the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

BREREAKING NEWS: Osama Bin Laden is dead; Navy seals raided compound inside Pakistan

Mike Hendren — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:51:30 +0000

U.S. Navy seals invade plush compound where Bin Laden was living. Initial reports indicate three others were killed in the raid, including a woman who was reportedly used as a human shield. Bin Laden was

Super Glue Inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. Dead at 94

Aaron Galloway — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:44:25 +0000

Super Glue inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. died Saturday night of congestive heart failure at his home in Kingsport, TN, the NY Times is reporting. He was 94.

Though he held over 460 patents in his career, Coover was best known for his revolutionary invention, which he created accidentally while testing compounds at Eastman Codak's Tennessee laboratory in 1951. Seven years after the accident, during which Coover ruined a $3,000 machine, the first version of Super Glue (called Eastman 910) was made available.