Screamin' seafaring tale wins bad writing contest
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:48 pm PDT
AP - A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest. David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way, Wash., won the grand prize in San Jose State University's annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this: Full Story | Top |
Cops: Woman takes kneeling woman's cash in church
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:48 pm PDT
AP - Nassau County police said a congregant at a Long Island church disregarded at least one of its commandments: Thou shalt not steal. Police said the 46-year-old woman reached over a pew and took cash from a purse while its owner knelt Sunday at Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church in Westbury. Police said an usher saw the theft, and officers stopped the woman as she left the church. Full Story | Top |
Cops: Man breaks into home, watches TV, drives car
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:48 pm PDT
AP - Police said a man broke into a Cincinnati home and proceeded to stay there for a week, watching television and sleeping in the master bedroom while the family was on vacation. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department arrested 19-year-old Nicholas Truesdell on Friday and charged him with burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle. Full Story | Top |
Bus rider finds 19th century checks, old tools
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:48 pm PDT
AP - Some 19th century checks and old rusty tools were left months ago at a bus stop in Longmont, and police say no one has come forward to claim them. The Regional Transportation District turned over the unusual items to police in March after a rider said she found them at a bus stop in Longmont. The items include handwritten checks from 1884 mounted on mat boards, as if they'd been on display. Full Story | Top |
So the honeymoon is over?
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31 am PDT
Reuters - A Polish couple living in Germany fell out after tying the knot and decided to end their marriage on the same day. Full Story | Top |
Stoned wallabies make crop circles
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:30 am PDT
Reuters - The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania has been solved -- stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles. Full Story | Top |
Russia's casinos to close, thousands lose jobs
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:11 pm PDT
Reuters - Russia's plan to close gaming halls, from gaudy casinos crowned by extravagant neon structures to dingy dwellings containing a handful of slot machines, could turf a third of a million people out of work this week. Full Story | Top |
First $1 million find for U.S. Antiques Roadshow
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:31 pm PDT
Reuters - A woman who inherited some Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million (601,557 pounds) appraisal from experts on the U.S. television program "Antiques Roadshow," the producers said on Monday. Full Story | Top |
Moon-lovers remember Apollo with radio chit-chat
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:55 am PDT
Reuters - Radio hams and amateur astronomers around the world spent the weekend bouncing radio conversations off the Moon to one another in commemoration of the Apollo 11 landings 40 years ago, organisers in Australia said on Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Michael Jackson's death sparks bus brawl
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:35 pm PDT
Reuters - A fight broke out on a Florida bus when news of Michael Jackson's death sparked debate over whether he should be remembered as a great musical talent, and one passenger was charged with assault, police said on Friday. Full Story | Top |
Woman on tracks to 'clear her mind' hit by train
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:07 pm PDT
AP - Birmingham police said a 22-year-old woman has suffered a broken leg after being hit by a train. Officer Lawrence Billups said the woman told police she was lying on the tracks "to clear her mind" when the train approached around 7 a.m. Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Warren Buffett lunch sells for £1 million on eBay
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:35 pm PDT
Reuters - A bidder agreed to pay $1.68 million (1 million pound) for a steak lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a charity auction completed Friday night, according to eBay's website, where the bidding took place. Full Story | Top |
Oregon man's wallet returns after 63 years
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:48 pm PDT
AP - Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished. The zipper moved with ease. And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym. Full Story | Top |
Andy "Curry" enjoying Wimbledon downtime
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:40 am PDT
Reuters - Andy Murray clearly isn't letting the expectation of becoming Britain's first men's Wimbledon champion since 1936 get too much for him if the way he uses his downtime is anything to go by. Full Story | Top |
Iowa man grabs wheel, crashes car during quarrel
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:50 pm PDT
AP - Police said they arrested a Des Moines man after he reportedly lost his temper with his wife while they were traveling on Interstate Highway 235, wrenched the wheel from her and sent the car careening off the road. Full Story | Top |
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