Flight diverted after passenger undresses in seat
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:36 pm PDT
AP - A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty law enforcement officers on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Cops zap pastor protesting traffic stop at church
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:46 pm PDT
AP - Police in Texas said they used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray on his congregants after the man interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Police said the traffic stop Wednesday morning involved a member of the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church in its parking lot in Webster, southeast of Houston. Full Story | Top |
Real blaze hits Ohio house used for fire training
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:03 pm PDT
AP - A vacant house in flames must have looked familiar to northwestern Ohio firefighters. Less than 24 hours earlier, they were at the same house putting out fires for a training exercise. The cause of the fire early Wednesday in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania is under investigation. Full Story | Top |
Mont. Judge rules on case — 24 years later
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:51 pm PDT
AP - The wheels of justice grind slowly, but this is pushing the envelope. In Montana's Toole County, retired District Judge Ronald McPhillips ruled this week in a lawsuit that was left hanging for nearly a quarter-century. The judge ruled in Great Falls against Milan Ayers, who contended that former partner James Rubow swindled him out of his share of a natural gas field, with leases potentially worth millions of dollars. Full Story | Top |
Ill. woman fined $25 for potty planters in yard
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:28 pm PDT
AP - The planters in her front yard brought Tina Asmus national publicity last month. This week, they brought her a $25 fine. Asmus said Tuesday she will go to court to fight to keep her lawn ornaments, which are made from two old toilets and a bathroom sink. Full Story | Top |
Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:50 pm PDT
 Reuters - Madrid's city hall Monday stripped former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco of his title as honorary mayor and adopted son of the capital, 33 years after his death began the transition to democracy. Full Story | Top |
Internet porn filter -- no Garfield please
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:54 am PDT
Reuters - What do Johnny Depp, Garfield, Paris Hilton and roast pork have in common? In China, the answer is that a new government-mandated Internet filter rates some pictures of all four of them as bad for your moral health. Full Story | Top |
Moon-lovers remember Apollo with radio chit-chat
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:44 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, organizers in Australia said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Plenty of gut, little glory for stringers
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:44 pm PDT
Reuters - After supervising around 3,000 re-strings during the Wimbledon fortnight one might think Roger Dalton could put his feet up with a bowl of strawberries on Sunday and watch the men's singles final in peace. Full Story | Top |
China's Internet porn filter -- no Depp please
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18 am PDT
Reuters - What do Johnny Depp, Garfield, Paris Hilton and roast pork have in common? In China, the answer is that a new government-mandated Internet filter rates some pictures of all four of them as bad for your moral health. Full Story | Top |
Masked teens take chips, soda from Pa. store
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:21 pm PDT
AP - Police are searching for three masked teens who burst into a southwestern Pennsylvania convenience store, but were content to steal only several bags of potato chips and bottles of soda. Uniontown police said the bandits struck about 12:45 a.m. Monday at a Sunoco A Plus store. Full Story | Top |
Police: Robbers hit NY gas station, ran out of gas
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:06 pm PDT
AP - State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up. Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock, after their getaway car ran out of gas while the were trying to escape late Monday night. Full Story | Top |
Man charged with stealing watch at courthouse
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:24 pm PDT
AP - Authorities said a man walking through a security checkpoint at a Pinellas courthouse tried to steal an expensive watch, just feet from deputies. The sheriff's office reported that a man who had emptied his pockets to walk through a metal detector Monday complained that his $1,000 Wittnauer watch was gone. Full Story | Top |
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