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Buck Wolf has blazed a strange-but-true path through journalism. He's interviewed the world's tallest man, the world's shortest man, and served as a judge for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! in a national sideshow talent competition. He joined Huffington Post after serving as the senior correspondent and editor in charge of AOL Weird News. He's a regular on the back pages of Us Weekly, ripping on celebrities as a member of the magazine's infamous Fashion Police. And for nearly a decade he was an entertainment news producer and columnist for ABCNews.com. He and his wife Claudine live in New York City.

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Trayvon Martin 7-Eleven Surveillance Video Shows Slain Teen Shortly Before He Was Killed

(18803) Comments | Posted May 19, 2012 | 12:32 PM

Trayvon Martin walked into a Sanford, Fla., 7-Eleven on Feb. 26, purchased a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea, and before he was able to return to his father's fiancée's home, he was killed.

Surveillance footage from the convenience store that evening is among the evidence prosecutors released...

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Briana Rios, Fla. Teenager, Allegedly Ran a 'Pretty Big' Bookie Operation

(889) Comments | Posted March 17, 2012 | 9:26 AM

The way authorities describe it, Briana Rios crashed through the glass ceiling in the traditionally male-dominated world of illegal bookmaking, but not exactly as a feminist icon.

The 19-year-old South Florida resident, who attended Miami Senior High School, is accused of heading an illegal gambling operation, taking bets on NFL...

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Briana Rios, Fla. Teenager, Allegedly Ran a 'Pretty Big' Bookie Operation

(0) Comments | Posted March 17, 2012 | 9:26 AM

The way authorities describe it, Briana Rios crashed through the glass ceiling in the traditionally male-dominated world of illegal bookmaking, but not exactly as a feminist icon.

The 19-year-old South Florida resident, who attended Miami Senior High School, is accused of heading an illegal gambling operation, taking bets on NFL...

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Bremerton School Shooting: 9-Year-Old Boy Tells Court, 'I'm Sorry'

(1663) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 7:19 PM

The 9-year-old boy who took a handgun to school that accidentally discharged, seriously injuring a third grade classmate, told a Washington court, "I'm sorry," after pleading guilty to three criminal charges, the Seattle Times reports.

The third-grader, who attended the Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, pleaded...

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Arianna Huffington Pulls Sword From Dan Meyer's Mouth

(12) Comments | Posted January 13, 2012 | 4:57 PM

Arianna Huffington has skewered some people in the media, and certainly others have skewered her. Today, however, she was simply assisting master sword swallower Dan Meyer.

Meyer, who holds five Guinness World Records, was in New York City to film a documentary that includes sticking a 3-D endoscope...

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Top Weird News 2011: The Year's 11 Oddest News Stories

(70) Comments | Posted December 30, 2011 | 3:50 PM

While doomsday evangelist Harold Camping predicted the world would end May 21, we at HuffPost Weird News knew the truth -- our strange world was only becoming more bizarre this year.

Among many other amazing things, 2011 gave us the birth of conjoined twins who share one two-headed...

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Frosty Fail: HuffPost's David Moye Disastrous Performance of 'Frosty The Snowman' (VIDEO)

(69) Comments | Posted December 24, 2011 | 8:38 AM

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, and we at HuffPost Weird News are in the giving spirit right now.

Mostly, we're giving staff writer David Moye the business for his humiliating fall while singing and playing ukulele in front of his son Owen's kindergarten class.

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Ig Nobel Award Winners: Do Humans Think Less Clearly When They Have To Urinate?

(21) Comments | Posted September 29, 2011 | 4:13 PM

Can a strong urge to urinate impair your ability to drive? Is yawning contagious? Will motorists stop double-parking if you threaten to flatten their cars with an armored tank?

The studies of these subjects might not win you a Nobel Prize. But they might win you an Ig Nobel --...

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Kelly Ripa Attempts Grape Stomping Record (VIDEO)

(10) Comments | Posted September 20, 2011 | 9:04 AM

Kelly Ripa doesn't dress like the St. Pauli Girl often, but when she does, she's got a good reason.

Regis Philbin's blonder half attempted to stomp her way to Guinness World Record glory Friday, competing on live TV to set the mark for "Most Grapes Trodden in One...

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Chris 'The Dutchess' Walton Makes Guinness Book Of World Records With Longest Fingernails

(440) Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 7:00 PM

It takes a newborn baby 18 years to grow into adulthood. And it took Chris "The Dutchess" Walton just as long to grow her record-setting fingernails to 19 feet, 9 inches long.

"The hardest thing for me to do is dig in my pockets," the 45-year-old rock singer from Las...

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Ernestine Shepherd, World's Oldest Female Bodybuilder, Muscles Her Way Into Guinness World Records (VIDEO)

(244) Comments | Posted May 29, 2011 | 10:30 AM

At a time in life when most people would be happy sitting on a park bench, Ernestine Shepherd is benching more than her own weight -- and competing with women half her age at muscle shows.

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The 74-year-old grandmother is a regular on the

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The Amazing Kreskin On UFOs, Doomsday And His Own Mysterious Future (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

(24) Comments | Posted May 26, 2011 | 7:07 AM

Just a few days before the world was supposed to end, that psychic fireball of energy otherwise known as "The Amazing Kreskin" buzzed through AOL headquarters, and when we replayed the interview hours later, we were flabbergasted when the 76-year-old mentalist said he had signed his "final contract."

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Scott Blake, 'Barcode Oprah' Creator, Turns Daytime TV Queen Into Scan-Able Commodity

(13) Comments | Posted May 25, 2011 | 7:00 PM

To Oprah Winfrey fans, the end of her show is like the end of the world.

But the fear of Doomsday is what inspired one artist to turn Oprah's image into an extraordinary piece of art -- the Barcode Oprah.

"In 1999, everyone was afraid of the...

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Tillman The Skateboarding Dog Rolls Out 'Bark In The Park' Fundraiser

(11) Comments | Posted April 28, 2011 | 2:12 PM

If you thought Huffington Post was going to the dogs, you were exactly right. But these dogs are special.

Tillman, the world famous skateboarding dog, rolled into Huffington Post Media Group's new headquarters this week, and he brought his extreme puppy posse for a tail-waggin' good time.

We...

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