A new restaurant has opened in Los Angeles called Opaque.  Diners are led into a pitch black dining room by the blind waiters who act as their guides for the evening.

Job applications have skyrocketed with news that Carmen Electra, Pamela Anderson and Jessica Alba have been comped for life.

Still needed: Old guys with scuba gear to be men's room attendants.

Erik Estrada, LaToya Jackson and Ozzie Osbourne's son, Jack have been sworn in as reserve officers of the Muncie, Indiana police department, allowing them to carry badges and guns as part of a new reality television series, Armed and Famous.

Network executives settled on the show's title after rejecting the more cumbersome, Armed and Looks Vaguely Familiar.

The show is already mired in controversy as the Muncie Police Department faces a copyright infringement lawsuit from the producers of Reno 911.

In New York City, Port Authority officials scrambled to add more buses on the New York-to-Muncie route to accommodate the needs of parolees, career criminals and civil attorneys.*

Plans are already in the works for a spin-off show in which high school students are given guns and a license to hunt down D-list celebrities to fulfill their school's community service requirement.

*Categories not mutually exclusive

Paris Hilton says she wants to have lots of kids in the near future and feels qualified because of her experience with animals.

New York City became the first city in the country to pass a law that bans trans fats.

In the first major test of the law, Subway spokesman Jared Fogle was shot 50 times in an undercover sting gone horribly wrong.

Lawyers are attempting to find a loophole in the new law that would allow Aretha Franklin to perform at Madison Square Garden.

New study shows cats can develop Alzheimer's. 

Scientists suspected a link when they moved a scratching post and found three years worth of New York Times and old bingo cards hidden behind it.

Gwen Stefani and her hairdresser use her appearance at the Billboard Music Awards to pay tribute to tsunami victims.