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When it’s ice cream time, it’s ice cream time. If anyone gets between mouth and spoon, there’s hell to pay. Luckily for Walmart, they might not have to meet this fate. Engaging in the age-old tradition of a Saturday night pint (and a movie), Stephanie Granger of East Texas was rudely interrupted–by a razor in the ice cream. The woman was digging into her Peanut Butter Stars–a Great Value brand of Walmart ice cream–when she hit the coveted chocolate layer....

With 2014 drawing to a close, we hope that our readers have made it this far without a drunken driving incident. Others haven’t been as lucky or prudent in the past 12 months, as you may discover in our 10 most popular DUI stories of 2014: Each year our advice for those facing drunken driving charges remains the same: Consult an experienced DUI attorney in your area. Related Resources: Browse DUI/DWI Lawyers by Location (FindLaw) Top 5 Questions to Ask a DUI Lawyer (FindLaw’s Blotter) Top 10 Legal Tips for New Grads (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life) Can You Beat a DUI Charge on a Technicality?...

George Zimmerman’s jurors will be sequestered for the duration of his murder trial, the presiding judge has ordered. Judge Debra Nelson expects Zimmerman’s trial for second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin to last two to four weeks, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Jury selection began Monday. No jurors have yet been seated in the case, but when the six jurors and four alternates are chosen to serve, life as they know it will come to a screeching halt....

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt vowed to build 150 new “green” homes for low income families that lost their houses in the natural disaster. Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation began building homes in 2008 with the help of celebrity donations and two award-wining architects, but to date, only 110 have been built, and they haven’t been built well. Many residents have reported sagging porches, mildewing wood and leaky roofs....

Ever been surfing? Even been car surfing? Car surfing deaths are suddenly a hot topic in the media. If you haven’t heard of it, car surfing is an act where people ride on top or beside their vehicles for thrills and excitement. Car surfing videos are popular on YouTube. Of course the activity is incredibly foolish and dangerous. People have already been killed participating, Gather.com reports. Sometimes car surfers take it up another level by car surfing and ghost riding at the same time....

The Food and Drug Administration’s new cigarette warnings took another hit on Wednesday. Federal District Judge Richard Leon has again sided with the tobacco companies, finding that the warnings violate the industry’s free speech rights. In addition to textual messages, the challenged rules require cigarette boxes and packaging to carry graphic images depicting the health effects of smoking. The final images include photos of rotting teeth, diseased organs and a dead body....

A 25-year-old former utility company employee is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly using Craigslist sex ads for sex trafficking, rape, kidnapping and additional related offenses. Ross Campbell of New York will be sentenced in State Supreme Court on November 23. This is the first conviction in Bronx County and one of only a few in New York, under the 2007 Sex Trafficking statute. The women involved here testified that they were taken to an apartment and forced at gunpoint to work as prostitutes....

A Mississippi man was sentenced to 90 years in prison for killing his five kids and an adult family friend in a fatal DUI crash last year. Duane John Sr., 34, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced to 15 years on each count of DUI-related manslaughter to run consecutively for a total 90 years. Fifteen years were suspended, leaving 75 to serve in prison. John was indicted last May in the deaths of his children: Daisyanna John, 9; Duane John Jr....

A panel of federal health advisers has voted unanimously to reject weight loss drug rimonabant, after hearing testimony on the drug’s safety. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee concluded that French manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis SA failed to prove that the weight loss drug was safe, especially in light of evidence linking rimonabant use to psychiatric effects including depression and suicidal thoughts. The panel serves the FDA in an advisory capacity, but its conclusions carry great weight in the FDA’s approval process....

On Monday, Four Loko maker Phusion Projects settled with the Federal Trade Commission over claims of deceptive advertising. Now, Four Loko cans will be required to show its “true” alcohol content. The labels will disclose that one can of the sugary sweet alcoholic beverage contains as much alcohol as 4 to 5 cans of beer. The move comes after the company has already been beleaguered by federal scrutiny and lawsuits. In one wrongful death case, a Virginia family says their teenage son Johnny “Bo” Rupp wandered into oncoming traffic and died after drinking Four Loko....

Applicants for permanent residence in the U.S. and people filing for U.S. citizenship will pay substantially higher fees beginnning on July 30, 2007, under a new fee schedule recently released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Total fees associated with obtaining a permanent resident visa (or “green card”) will increase from $325 to $930, while the cost of filing an application for U.S. citizenship will rise from $330 to $675....

Some say crooks are stupid, but sometimes it’s the victims. Keyless ignitions are on the rise, and so are car thefts. Many believe that the two are tied together, due car owners leaving fobs in the car in order to streamline their morning routine. But few things stall out a morning routine like a stolen car. Lucky thieves of cars whose owners have left the fob in the car need only gain entry into the car in order to steal it....

The couple who started out as Reality TV stars of “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” will end the year in divorce. Their divorce is now final. A Chicago Tribune article reports, that in the arbitration’s final stages, the couple met for more than six hours at a law office in the Philadelphia suburbs to discuss unresolved marital issues, including custody of their eight children and the distribution of marital property....

A New Jersey jury yesterday awarded $47.5 million to a retired Idaho postal worker and his wife, finding that Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co., Inc. failed to provide adequate warnings about the painkiller’s risks, and that Vioxx use was a factor in plaintiff Frederick Humeston’s 2001 heart attack. An initial award of $20 million in compensatory damages was increased to a total of $47.5 million after the jury ordered Merck to pay $27....

There is an old saying among attorneys: he who represents himself has a fool for a client. A sharper illustration of this adage cannot be found outside Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision handed down last Thursday in the Philip Berg lawsuit, in which yet another “birther” sued regarding President Obama’s birthplace and eligibility to serve as President. Standing is the law’s way of deciding who is the appropriate party to bring a case to court....

The juice is not loose. O.J. Simpson will remain incarcerated after the Nevada Supreme Court refused to overturn his convictions. Simpson was sentenced to nine to 33 years stemming from charges of armed robbery, conspiracy and kidnapping after storming a Las Vegas hotel room and taking property at gunpoint, according to NPR. The court concluded that all eight of Simpson’s robbery and kidnapping appeal arguments lacked validity and rejected them. Simpson, 63, will remain at Lovelock Correctional Center....

When kids talk about going into the family business, who knew it meant robbing homes of high profile celebrities? We’ve all heard it before: don’t put your vacation pictures up on social media until you return, because you can signal to unsuspecting thieves that you are out of town. But celebrities don’t exactly have that luxury, as their travel plans are always published, both personal and professional. That leaves them exposed, and one group took advantage....

Over 500 people in 33 US states have been infected with salmonella, and one woman is dead, due to cucumbers. The culprit cukes have been recalled. But the Food Poisoning Bulletin suspects that there may be many more people ill. Most salmonella cases are not reported, so some experts believe that the true figure for this outbreak is much closer to 16,000 sick. That number comes from using a salmonella multiplier of 30....

It has been nearly a year since a traumatic six-car accident critically injured comedians Tracy Morgan, Harris Stanton, and Ardie Fuqua, and killed 62-year-old James McNair. Earlier this year, Walmart reached a settlement with McNair’s family for $10 million. This month, Morgan has also settled his case with Walmart The Accident April last year, Morgan and friends were traveling back from a show in a Mercedes limousine bus. They were on the New Jersey Turnpike when a Walmart tractor trailer swerved into Morgan’s limo causing a chain reaction accident involving six vehicles....

Villanova University student Tyler Jones is facing felony charges for allegedly secretly recording women undressing in a bathroom with his phone and uploading the videos to a porn website. Police say that Jones secretly recorded three women undressing by hiding his iPhone in the bathroom, reports NBC. Jones allegedly captured images of the women in various states of undress including images of bare breasts. The student then uploaded the phone images to a porn site from his dorm room at Villanova....