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This is the story of some very curious caretakers at a cathedral in New York City. In the city that never sleeps, green spaces can be all but impossible to come by. And when they do exist, those who take care of them are charged with a very rare task in the midst of the hustle and bustle of city life. Gardeners in the United States report spending $47.8 billion on lawn and gardening retail annually, though the concrete jungle where dreams are made of got more creative with their spending. What better beings to take care of those green spaces than those that spend their days chowing on the delectable green grass? Sheep were obviously perfect candidates for the job, and have been inhabiting the courtyard of Manhattan's Basilica of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral for the past few years. Th...

Some arrests that happen are entertaining to think about when considering the question how did they get there? Imagining the planning -- or lack thereof -- process that went into felonious acts that were promptly foiled by the iron gauntlet of the law only causes one to wonder. There are more than 1.3 million lawyers in the United States, but these guys are going to have a real tough time defending this stunt in court. Driving a tractor-trailer on a route from Colorado to Florida, Jorge Blanco-Diaz and Adan Labanino Delacruz were certain of their plan. They were just driving a massive shipment of lettuce. Nothing of import, nothing extraordinary, nothing to see here. However, there was more to this shipment than met the eye. Tucked away within the truck full of greens, the devil's lett...

Views on death are beginning to change as the average lifespan increases; the number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to rise 26% within this decade, and no state understands that better than Maine. The Pine Tree State's aging population (65 or older) is predicted to outnumber the young by the year 2020. Interestingly enough, Maine is one of the 12 states where cremation is growing fastest. Joe Dumais, superintendent at Portland's historic Evergreen Cemetery, had planned for this boom and added a semicircular columbarium with 300 niches, which can hold as many as 600 cremated remains. "We're over 50 percent cremations now, and we know as a nation we’re trending toward cremations," he said of the interments for that year. "In some cemeteries, it’s as high as 60 percent ...