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    Ron Dicker

    Ron Dicker

    General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost

  • Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey Soar In 'Don't Call Me Angel'

    The pop stars take wing in a sultry, sassy music video for the upcoming "Charlie's Angels" reboot.

  • Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne Fight Salma Hayek In 'Like A Boss' Trailer

    The beauty biz comedy promises to "get ugly" — and one fierce punch is thrown.

  • Which Is Better: 'Friends' Or 'Seinfeld'? Twitter War Erupts.

    "Must See TV" becomes a must-see debate.

  • Gun Store Logo On Jerseys Upsets T-Ball Mom

    An Oregon T-ball team's jerseys, which feature the logo of a local gun store, are causing at least one player's mother to speak out against the design, TV station KGW 8 reports. Brian Coleman, the owner of sponsor Rapid Fire Arms in Sandy, Ore., has a son on the Sandy Cal Ripken League team. As of Thursday morning, the comments on the KGW site were overwhelmingly in favor of Coleman's sponsorship.

  • 'Sea Is Too Loud' And Other Crazy Cruise Complaints

    A list of the wackiest cruise complaints from BonVoyage.co.uk has been making waves, with gems such as a woman grumbling that the ocean was "too loud" and another passenger asking for a refund on her Celebrity Cruise because there were no celebrities aboard. The travel site takes the complaints seriously, said Steph Curtin, cruise development manager for BonVoyage. "If someone is not happy with something, we will investigate," she told The Huffington Post by phone.

  • T-Shirt Tells The World What Your Kid Is Allergic To

    All parents have to do is fill in the blanks. A new "Don't Feed Me" T-shirt with a checklist of food allergies tells caregivers what not to serve, ABC News reports. Comedian Kym Whitley, star of the upcoming "Raising Whitley" on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), first developed the shirt for her son Joshua, 2, who was mistakenly fed peanut butter by a nanny.

  • WATCH: This Is Not A Horror Film...

    Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. "We're pretty sure this couple will always have a love affair with film trailers from now on," Mashable wrote. Watch the video above to see the romantic stunt, then click through the slideshow below for seven more movie trailer proposals.

  • Cartier Ticked At Obscene Logo Knockoff

    Cartier has ordered a Parsons design student to cease sales of his "Cuntier" hats spoofing the jewelry brand, the Daily Beast reports. As parodies go, Cartier didn't think it was such a gem. Soho boutique American Two Shot, one of the outlets for the creator and small-time manufacturer known only as Fahad, confirmed to The Huffington Post that it had removed the merchandise from the store.

  • Teacher Pretends To Shoot Students, Gets Suspended

    The Odyssey School instructor was playing a sort of hide-and-seek game with the students, when he pointed to some and said, "bang, you're dead," Atlanta's Fox 5 reports. The teacher, identified by the Times-Herald as Mariano Pacetti, "exercised bad judgment," Odyssey School director Andy Geeter told the paper. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • 556-Pound Man With 70-Pound Tumor Faces 2 Risky Surgeries

    Scot Jacobson, a 556-pound Oregon man, has a 70-pound tumor he calls "Wilson," after the volleyball featured in the movie "Cast Away." It's just something to add levity to his predicament, Jacobson told The Huffington Post. In the next few months, the 50-year-old father of eight must undergo two risky surgeries: a gastric bypass to get his weight down and a procedure about four months later to remove the volleyball-sized growth from his abdomen. "It's hard to get excited again," he said to HuffPost on Tuesday.

  • Tourist Stranded In Airport for Two Months

    Spanish tourist Rodrigo Ben-Azul has been stranded in Chile's Santiago Airport for more than two months, according to Chilean news outlet PubliMetro. Completely broke, Ben-Azul has been scrounging for food and cigarette butts in trash cans, according to PubliMetro. Ben-Azul told the Chilean TV station Megavision that he came to Chile from Spain to resolve a dispute with relatives, but was unsuccessful.

  • 'Motherhood -- It's Another 'Hood'

    "The Motherhood" is performed by a British mom (the accent absolutely makes this one), and “features” the Fiat 500Ls. Elena Bernardelli, Fiat UK's marketing director told Digital Spy that the company wanted to reach "dynamic mothers ... balancing motherhood with their desire to keep hold of their pre-children identity." Naturally, that vision led to inspired rhymes such as "Work versus home is a mental complication.

  • Stunning Photo Of Baby In Womb Grabbing Doc's Finger

    In the midst of a C-section delivery, baby Nevaeh Atkins reached out of her mother's womb and grabbed the doctor's finger. Father Randy Atkins' quick camera work gave birth to a now-viral picture that Nevaeh's mom, Alicia, called "truly amazing" on Facebook. "I am in awe of this photo," wrote Alicia, who is the professional photographer in the family.

  • Could Brussels Sprouts Be Dangerous?

    Doctors have warned certain patients not to hit the Brussels sprouts too hard this Christmas. A man from Ayrshire, Scotland,  was hospitalized after eating too many of them last Christmas, the Medical Journal of Australia documented in this month's edition. "Patients who are taking anticoagulants are generally advised not to eat too many green leafy vegetables," cardiologist Dr. Roy Gardner said in the Mirror.

  • Could Squeezing Breast Cancer Cells Make Them Be Normal Again?

    "Squeezing" malignant breast cancer cells could help to guide them back to a normal growth pattern, according to new research from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Instead of the typical drug-focused methods, the manipulation of cell development through physical force shows for the first time that "mechanical" pressure alone can revert and stop the out-of-control growth of cancer cells," the university wrote in a release. “Compression, in and of itself, is not likely to be a therapy,” cautioned Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering at Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Berkeley Lab, in the statement.

  • Dad Accidentally Shoots Son In Head

    A Nebraska father accidentally shot his son in the head while pheasant hunting in Iowa Saturday -- and the son lived to tell about it. In fact, the teen never lost consciousness and is ready to go hunting again, the Omaha World Herald reports. Christopher Rearick, of Omaha, Neb., was lining up a shot when he tripped, discharging his 12-gauge shotgun in the direction of his son, 18-year-old Ryan Rearick, according to the paper.

  • Craigslist Coffee Has Really Disgusting Ingredient

    The kopi luwak fecal coffee fad has officially gone to, well, you know, with a Craigslist ad selling human poop coffee. The animals' digestive enzymes supposedly give better flavor to the beans, which are then roasted. Prices for the coffee skyrocketed to as high as $600 a pound in the mid-2000s, according to a Food Research International report.

  • Overweight Soldiers Getting The Boot

    Growing ranks of the U.S. Army are no longer fighting fit -- they're fighting fat, the Washington Post reports. The military is weeding out overweight soldiers and recruits to trim its budget and address what it called a national security concern, according to the paper. Through October, the Army had dismissed 1,625 soldiers this year for failing fitness requirements -- 15 times the number dismissed in 2007.

  • Parents Use Dogs To Sniff Out Kids' Drugs

    Moms and dads are hiring drug-sniffing dogs to find their kids' potential hidden stash, NBC reports. In a segment titled "The Real Snoop Dog," a mother named Ava said that her daughter resented the invasion of privacy, but when Roxie the dog found marijuana in the garage, it led to an important conversation. On its FAQ, Drug Dog Services in Sacramento, Calif., asks, "Isn’t doing this type of search an invasion of their privacy?" Answer: "Discovering your child does drugs and preventing any legal ramifications is usually excuse enough to make this type of inquiry.

  • Teen With Tourette's Banned For Swearing

    In a decision his mother called "ridiculous," a British soccer league suspended a 14-year-old player with Tourette syndrome for cursing at the referee, The Sun reports. Melanie Burgess, the boy's mom, said she showed the referee a medical card proving that her son has Tourette syndrome -- which can cause tics and involuntary swearing -- but to no avail, according to The Sun. He was barred for two games and fined £25. League head Nick Perchard said officials concluded that the lack of respect Thompson showed to the referee afterward had nothing to do with his Tourette syndrome, so the player merited the penalty, the Mirror reports.