Daily News Alert | Saturday, October 3, 2009 12:00 AM PDT |
Cops: Mass. couple beat man at KFC over slow order
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 06:35 pm PDT
AP - Authorities say a couple, upset over the slowness of their Kentucky Fried Chicken order, assaulted a man who asked them to stop yelling profanities for the sake of children in line. The couple was arrested Thursday after witnesses told police the couple beat the man as he was leaving the restaurant. Full Story | Top |
Clerk: Show me the gun and I'll show you the money
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:30 pm PDT
AP - Police said a man's attempt to rob a convenience store was thwarted when a clerk demanded to see his gun. Authorities said a flustered Adam Alsarabi fled from the White Hen Pantry in Haverhill and later was caught in the woods by police. No gun was found on him. Police reported said the 22-year-old entered the store about 12:45 a.m. Friday, and told the clerk to give him money and that he had a gun. Full Story | Top |
La. woman accused of biting boyfriend's tongue
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:05 pm PDT
AP - Deputies arrested a blood-stained 39-year-old woman for allegedly biting her boyfriend's tongue during an argument. According to an arrest affidavit, the woman's boyfriend told deputies that she hit him over the head with a beer bottle during the disagreement. He said he attempted to kiss her to reconcile and she bit his tongue, causing it to bleed. Full Story | Top |
Nude man accused of pounding on cars on a highway
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:18 pm PDT
AP - A man who told officers he was a medical marijuana provider has been arrested for allegedly standing naked in a Colorado highway, pounding on passing cars and spitting at a state trooper. Dustin Robbins, 27, of Westminster, faces 13 counts including indecent exposure, assault and driving under the influence of marijuana. Full Story | Top |
A mai tai with the Mai Mai?
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:19 pm PDT
 Reuters - Congo's army has suspended an officer accused of drinking with the enemy ahead of a militia attack that the United Nations said left six soldiers dead, a top army commander said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
Fashionistas furious over Berlusconi link
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:18 pm PDT
 Reuters - Italian fashionistas on Wednesday hit back at foreign media reports that their latest creations were for "bimbos" inspired by the sex scandals surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private life. Full Story | Top |
The Trial: Judge tackles Kafka archive nightmare
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:22 am PDT
Reuters - An Israeli court has stepped into a battle over a legacy that may include lost manuscripts of the great 20th century writer Franz Kafka, ordering an elderly heiress to open up a secret hoard of papers, Israel's Haaretz newspaper said Friday. Full Story | Top |
Tiff over Gaddafi tent on Trump land ends
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:10 pm PDT
Reuters - The company that set up a huge tent for visiting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will plead guilty to zoning violations in the town of Bedford, New York, and pay a $1,000 fine, the town attorney said on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Cat survives after being shot in head with arrow
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 06:28 pm PDT
AP - BC the cat survived, but likely used up one of his nine lives when someone shot an arrow through his head. The 2-year-old gray and white tabby came home one day last week looking like he was doing a bad imitation of the Steve Martin skit from the 1970s. BC's arrow was pointing front-to-back rather than side-to-side. Full Story | Top |
London mayor appears in EastEnders
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:24 am PDT
Reuters - London Mayor Boris Johnson makes a brief appearance on Thursday in "EastEnders" and gets a broadside from feisty pub landlady Peggy Mitchell who is angry about public services. Full Story | Top |
Gas mask in a bra leads IgNobel awards
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:38 pm PDT
Reuters - Engineers who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask, pathologists who determined that beer bottles can crack your skull even when empty and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to "Driver's Licence" all won spoof "IgNobel" prizes on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Detroit man gets 2 yrs for swiping car on 1st date
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:11 pm PDT
AP - A Detroit man has been sentenced to at least two years in prison for stealing a woman's car after skipping out on the check during their first date. Twenty-four-year-old Terrance McCoy was sentenced Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court to two to 10 years in prison. Full Story | Top |
Cuba launches 'no free lunch' trial
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:20 pm PDT
Reuters - There may soon be no such thing as a free lunch, even in Cuba where the communist-run government began an experiment on Thursday to close state-run lunchrooms and give workers money to buy their own meals. Full Story | Top |
Mass. woman's message in bottle turns up in France
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:08 pm PDT
AP - A bottle with a message written by a woman who tossed it into the sea in 2003 off Cape Ann in Massachusetts was found 3,000 miles across the Atlantic off the coast of France. Michel and Daniele Onesime said they were going fishing last month from the port at St. Gilles Croix de Vie when they found the bottle in the water. Full Story | Top |
Snail rush defies downturn for Bulgarians
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:52 am PDT
Reuters - On a quiet patch of land apparently devoid of inhabitants, Krasimir Kostov's farm is silently booming as more than one million snails, hiding from the sun under planks of wood, munch their way to market. Full Story | Top |
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