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The world has always been a dangerous place, but many think we're about to reach a breaking point. New nuclear threats that have been directed at targets in Missouri have led more to pursue different levels of doomsday prepping and their numbers are growing.

Call it saber rattling or whatever description you like, but Russian President Vladimir Putin's new threats of nuclear attacks on America are a potential scary problem for Illinois in ways you may not have imagined.

I am always up for a good mystery. This qualifies. It's a Russian billionaire's abandoned Illinois mansion. Why did he flee the country and why did his mansion have many hidden areas? Let's explore.

So Russia invades Ukraine, which causes rising oil prices to surge even further, and makes it an almost certainty that Illinois' gas prices (along with the rest of the country) are about to really go up.

If you haven't noticed the beautiful purple-hued sunsets we've been getting here recently in the Rockford area, you've been missing out on an interesting phenomenon.

When you think about the things we here in Rockford enjoy during the winter months, there's one constant theme: Ice. Rockford is definitely an ice-skating town, having produced multiple champions to back up that claim. We're also a big hockey town, from the junior leagues all the way up to the Rockford IceHogs. I'm thinking that a new sport from Russia would be a perfect fit in the Forest City. Re

If you were up late last night (maybe going over what you'd just witnessed during the Super Bowl), and happened to be glancing skyward, you got to see something pretty spectacular.

Jim Croce put it very well when he was covering things that one just should not do. According to Mr. Croce, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit in the wind, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and of course, you don't mess around with Jim (later Slim)...

American dogs have it so much better than Russian dogs. Take my dog Lucy for example. She has access to satellite TV, broadband internet, not one, but two couches, and her own fenced-in backyard. Life for Lucy is good. Now, if she lived in Russia, she'd have to wander around an apartment complex looking for something to do...

Not a lot of details to this one, other than it's video shot somewhere in Russia (which has really become the world's epicenter of strange videos). We don't know what Mr. No Pants was charged with, but apparently Russian law enforcement has no problem with suspects wandering around behind the booking desk...