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Larry Wilcox: 5 Facts on the 'CHiPs' Star in Real-Life Legal Drama

What would Officer Jonathan Baker say? Larry Wilcox, an actor who played Baker on the classic TV show "CHiPs," will spend three years on probation -- and also pay $100 and perform 500 hours of community service -- for conspiring to commit securities fraud, The Associated Press reports. Wilcox was caught up in a sting...

Casino Bandit Grabs $1.5 Million at Bellagio in Vegas

(Dec. 14) -- Police in Las Vegas are after an armed man who they say stole at least $1.5 million from Las Vegas' Bellagio casino today, then jumped on his motorcycle and made a quick getaway. In a heist somewhat reminiscent of an "Ocean's Eleven" film, Las Vegas police said a man wearing a leather jacket and a white...

Sun Chips Trashes Super Noisy Compostable Bag, Silencing It Forever

(Oct. 5) -- The reign of the Sun Chips "100 percent compostable" bag will end with a crinkle, not a deafening roar. Frito Lay's much-hyped green packaging hits the proverbial dust compost bin of history today due to a unusually rigid molecular structure that made the bag hilariously loud and, thus, unappealing to snackers...

These SunChips Are Making Me Noisy

(Aug. 20) -- Why are SunChips generating so much noise these days? The Frito-Lay owned snack brand intended to market its new non-plastic bag around the 100 percent biodegradable plant-matter packaging (Ed note: Save the Earth While You Snack?). But instead, its getting an earful of complaints from consumers over how much...

Man Stung by 500 Bees

Jerrold Summerlin, Texas Cooperative Extension / AP

(Aug. 10) -- When I was a boy, I went on a church youth group field trip to see pre-casino Cherokee, N.C. You can read the entire story on the website for my book "Mentally Incontinent," but I'll paraphrase here. The goal of our trip was to learn about Native American culture and the history of our land. We ended up...

Background on chips

CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios (now owned by Turner Entertainment) that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol.

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