Chris Pastrick stories, Page 17

Age is just a number, isn’t it? It’s all in how you feel. A 38-year-old woman in Utah felt 21 last week — well, that is after she was pulled over for a traffic violation, KUTV in Salt Lake City reports. According to their report, Heather Garcia was pulled over...

Hey, when you need a chicken sandwich … you need a chicken sandwich. But launching an all-out assault on Popeyes is probably not the best way to go about it. Especially when you’re lugging an infant around. According to a report from ABC13 News in Houston, a group of people...

Every time. It gets us every time Betty White starts trending on Twitter. Why is it we always think the worst? We should allow ourselves to consider that our favorite “Golden Girl” is just doing something incredible. Again. And this time, she is. At the ripe young age of 97,...

Karma is best served instantly. The Kennewick Police Department in Washington state posted a story to Facebook about just such an incident that happened Sunday. According to the police, William Kelley, 42, called to report someone stole his 1992 Chevy pickup truck. Turns out he had left his keys on...

As Monty Python says: “Always look on the bright side of life.” Turns out, those funny Brits hit upon a very healthy outlook. A new analysis of two previous studies shows that optimists have a better chance of reaching age 85 and older. “A lot of evidence suggests that exceptional...

The world of alternative meat just got a bit bigger. KFC, whose name is one-third meat, is joining the fray with some planet-based chicken, Business Insider reports. The chain will team up with Beyond Meat to offer customers Beyond Fried Chicken. It’s Kentucky Fried Chicken but it’s made with @BeyondMeat....

Those four pals from Miami are back — well, sort of. A live stage version of the ’80s sitcom “The Golden Girls” is headed to Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater — only with puppets. The show, “That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody,” debuted off-Broadway in 2016 with puppeteers (in full view...

Geez, there’s just not enough “Friends” news in the news these days. Surely, that’s what you were thinking, right? Well, here’s some more: In honor of the hit NBC series’ 25th anniversary, Frontier Communications is offering a lucky fan $1,000 to binge-watch the show for 25 hours. That works out...

U.S. Steel Corp. is planning to lay off almost 200 workers from its Great Lakes Works facility just outside of Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reports the Pittsburgh company said in a filing with the state of Michigan that “market conditions and recent reductions in customer demand” are the reason...

Sometimes, looks are everything. That’s certainly true in the case of a ride at an amusement park in Germany. The “Eagle Fly” was added this season to the ranks of rides at Tatzmania, a park in Löffingen. It’s a spinning attraction, where riders hop into cars attached to one of...

“220, 221. Whatever it takes.” Some classic movie lines will live forever. If you don’t know what movie that line is from, then you obviously don’t know that Aug. 19 is the anniversary of the wide release of “Mr. Mom,” the 1983 comedy that basically launched Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is an emoji worth? Perhaps a really good sex life. According to a pair of studies conducted by The Kinsey Institute (yeah, that one), texters who used emojis more often tended to have more dates, more romance, and more sex....

Science might just have come up with a way to stop overeaters from indulging too much. A team at Stanford University is testing a new brain chip implant — the responsive neurostimulation system (RNS) — that proved effective in halting binge eating in mice. So, why not humans? The chip...

Even after 25 years, they’ll be there for you — this time on the big screen. No, the cast of “Friends” isn’t doing a reunion movie, but the megahit comedy series is coming to movie theaters for the show’s 25th anniversary. On three nights — Sept. 22, 28, and Oct....

Sometimes, “fake news” is only wishful thinking. If you’ve ever spend some time on SPAM’s website (and, really, who hasn’t?) then you know the company has a wonderful sense of humor about itself. A few years ago, the company — which makes the beloved pork-in-a-can product — posted on its...

With Halloween just months away, Amazon’s timing seems perfect. The tech company announced in a blog post this week that it’s facial recognition software — Rekognition — now has the ability to recognize fear. Amazon Rekognition has “improved accuracy for emotion detection (for all 7 emotions: ‘Happy’, ‘Sad’, ‘Angry’, ‘Surprised’,...

Former Pittsburgh Pirates star Andrew McCutchen is a fan of gender reveals. He did one back in 2017 when he and his wife, Maria Hanslovan, announced the sex of their first child, a son: Steel. He’s done it again — this time for Baby No. 2. View this post on...

Call it fate. Call it coincidence. Call it … well, call it dumb luck. Police in South Carolina said a man driving drunk was unable to hit his brakes and ended up crashing into a … Brakes 4 Less shop. The Greenville Police posted Facebook that 21-year-old Jaderric Kevon Freeman...

He sang his heart out. And his lung. A Chinese man ended up in the hospital with a collapsed lung after a marathon karaoke session, the South China Morning Post reports. In an interview with the video site PearVideo, the 65-year-old, mentioned only by his surname Wang, said after singing...

It’s being built, and Major League Baseball hopes they’ll come. Fans, that is. A real-life “Field of Dreams” will be constructed in the same Iowa cornfield that was home to the classic 1989 film, MLB.com reports. The league announced the game, slated for Aug. 13, 2020, in a tweet on...

Hello, dream job! Bacon lovers your wait is over — your day of service has arrived. Farmer Boys, a West Coast restaurant chain, has posted a job opening for a “bacon intern.” That’s right, pork pals: Bacon as a career. OK, so maybe not a career. It’s an internship. And...

Hindsight is 20/20. A woman in Washington state is now regretting her photo op decision to put a live octopus on her face, KIRO-TV News in Seattle reports. Jamie Bisceglia told the station she was hoping to enter a photo contest as part of a fishing derby in Tacoma, Wash....

Maybe basketball players shouldn’t play while pregnant. It’s just best to play it safe for the baby’s sake. That’s good advice for point guard D.J. Cooper. Seems he’s pregnant. Well, at least that’s what his drug test showed, Eurohoops.net reports. Cooper was a standout at Ohio University from 2009-13. After...

Even with one day tied behind its back, Chick-fil-A has taken the crown as the nation’s favorite fast-food joint. The latest edition of MarketForce Information’s annual consumer study reveals more customers are loyal to Chick-fil-A than any other quick-service restaurant (MarketForce’s terminology). RestaurantNews reports MarketForce surveyed over 7,600 consumers, asking...