South Carolina is legalizing moonshine.
Thanks to a loophole in the state’s micro-distillery laws, entrepreneurs are able to sell a legal version of the traditional illicit hooch.
One startup in Greenville will soon produce and sell small batches of 100-proof corn whiskey from a custom-made copper still.
Housed in a 1925 building, the distillery will include a shrine to moonshine and the mountain men who made it.
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A broke Texas town bailed itself out by selling its jail.
A private prison firm paid $6 million for the Bill Clayton Detention Center in Littlefield, beating out two other bidders.
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Life in upstate New York is boar-ing these days.
The wild animals have been invading farms, attacking livestock and killing family pets, experts said yesterday.
The feral swine are a nonnative species suspected of having escaped from game farms.
As many as several hundred are roaming the state, said Paul Curtis, a natural-resources professor at Cornell University in Ithaca.
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The Chinese government wants video games to be a little less sexy.
Chinese newspapers report that in response to a state crackdown on “vulgarity,” ChinaJo Expo, an annual event showcasing the latest in online games, agreed to cover up and tone down the “spicy girls” who promote new products.
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A short cut landed this driver in the deep end.
Wojciech Lapinski was trying to skirt a traffic jam in Poland during a family road trip and veered into a tunnel that had been flooded by a broken sewer.
Firefighters and cops had to pull him and his 86-year-old mother from fetid water three feet deep.