Weekly World News, the tabloid that for 28 years has chronicled sightings of Elvis, extraterrestrial activity and the exploits of Bat Boy, is no more.

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Beginning Sept. 4, the North Ottawa Weekly Express will feature entertainment and food news.

EXCLUSIVE: Weekly World News—the supermarket tabloid behind such wacky characters as Bat Boy, Manigator, P’lod the Alien, Ph.D. Ape and SpyCat—is launching an entertainment division. Weekly ...

EXCLUSIVE: Weekly World News—the supermarket tabloid behind such wacky characters as Bat Boy, Manigator, P’lod the Alien, Ph.D. Ape and SpyCat—is launching an entertainment division. Weekly ...

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Weekly World News started as a weekly newspaper with its first issue on October 16, 1979, ending publication on August 27, 2007. Its publication resurfaced as entirely online in 2009 through 2015.