Darren Marlar – Marlar House Productions

Australian doctors have begun charging patients a fee of up to $43 for being just 10 minutes late for appointments. ***MARLAR: I’m totally cool with this… so long as I can take $43 off the bill for every ten minutes I’m forced to sit waiting to see the doctor.
One employee used a Federal Emergency Management [...]

Spouses are a bigger source of stress than bosses, research shows. There may be no place like home, but if you want to relax then you might be better off at work, according to the survey.   The poll of 3,000 men and women also found that husbands are more likely to send their wives’ blood [...]

Japanese and U.S. universities have jointly developed a medical technique that can quickly detect various cancers using a simple saliva test.  Japan’s Keio University and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed the technology with which they detected high probabilities of pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and oral cancer.  ***MARLAR: Early results show patients relish the [...]

Authorities have arrested a man accused of breaking into a home near Roswell High School at around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and taking a shower. Roswell police spokesman Lt. James McGee said neighbors tell police they saw a man entering the home.  Police said the homeowner then arrived and found someone taking a shower. McGee said [...]

A key House panel voted Wednesday to cut off almost $4 billion in aid to the government of Afghanistan pending an investigation into charges that Afghan officials are blocking corruption probes and huge amounts of financial aid is being stolen, keeping it from getting to those who need it.  ***MARLAR: In other words, they are [...]

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says its “foremost mission” is not returning to the moon, or completing a mission to Mars; rather it is improving relations with the Muslim world.  ***MARLAR: Do we expect NASA to encounter Unidentified Flying Muslims in space?
A British panel on Wednesday (July 7th) exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy [...]

The school superintendent in Springfield, Mass., has taken responsibility for tests given to the district’s 11th- and 12th-graders that were rife with spelling, grammatical and factual errors.  Two tests given in May to about 2,600 students contained about 100 errors combined.  The mistakes included the phrases “truning around” and “For God’s skae,” as well as [...]

A would-be robber wielding a chain at a San Diego Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant didn’t count on one of the customers being an armed, off-duty, plainclothes police sergeant. Witnesses said the man barged in Saturday afternoon, smashed his heavy chain on the counter and ordered all the employees into the kitchen.  But before he could [...]

A Florida man who reported a suspect wanted in a string of bomb threats will not get a $5,000 reward because he called 911 before the local crime hotline.  Central Florida Crimeline’s board of directors unanimously agreed Wednesday to not award the prize to 22-year-old Mike Schillmoeller.  The man was walking his dog May 25 [...]

Police said a 30-year-old woman apparently fell out of a third-story window, landed on her parked car, and then walked into a neighbor’s house, where she fell asleep on a couch for two hours. Lakemoor Police Chief Mike Marchese said family members believe the woman woke up before dawn Thursday and fell through the screen [...]