Daily News Alert | Friday, April 2, 2010 12:01 AM PDT |
3-year-old boy drives away with mom's car
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:10 pm PDT
AP - A toddler in Oshkosh is OK after taking his mother's car out for short spin down the block. Police said the mother of the 3-year-old boy told officers her son was asleep in the 1985 Buick sedan when she left it running and ran into the house for a moment Wednesday morning. Full Story | Top |
Easter Bunny roughed up outside NY sweet shop
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:55 pm PDT
AP - Police said a woman dressed as the Easter Bunny to promote a Hudson Valley candy shop was slammed to the ground by a man who then ran away. The 46-year-old woman, who was dressed in a white bunny costume, was not seriously hurt in the attack around 5 p.m. Wednesday outside the Alps Sweet Shoppe on Main Street in the village of Fishkill. Full Story | Top |
Man climbs through McDonald's drive-thru for fish
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:42 pm PDT
AP - Police said an impatient customer slapped a drive-thru worker at a New Jersey McDonald's because he was tired of waiting for his Filet-O-Fish sandwich. The man paid for the sandwich at the first window at the restaurant on Route 1 in South Brunswick early Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Vt. hotel evacuated after guest uses wrong plug
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:38 pm PDT
AP - Firefighters in a Vermont city said a hotel had to be evacuated in the middle of the night after a guest plugged a European DVD player into an American electrical outlet. Firefighters said the incompatible plug created a lot of smoke at the Comfort Inn and fire alarms were triggered early Tuesday throughout the 104-room hotel. Full Story | Top |
Holy man resigns over sex scandal
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:14 am PDT
Reuters - A Hindu holy man with thousands of followers across India resigned as head of a religious organization on Tuesday after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said. Full Story | Top |
Robbers tunnel into bank
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:12 am PDT
Reuters - Robbers tunneled their way into the vault of a Parisian bank at the weekend and cracked almost 200 private safes, police said. Full Story | Top |
Bomb hoax delays cruise ship off Florida
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:23 am PDT
Reuters - A Carnival cruise ship was held off the Florida coast for several hours on Sunday while authorities searched the vessel and arrested a drunk passenger on bomb hoax charges, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Full Story | Top |
Man detained over poisoned dumplings
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:22 am PDT
Reuters - China has detained a man suspected of poisoning frozen dumplings that were exported to Japan two years ago, sickening 10 people and causing tension between China and Japan. Full Story | Top |
Unpaid Spanish air hostesses strip in protest
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:28 pm PDT
Reuters - Flight attendants owed up to nine months' wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Man rams car into parked plane in Nigeria
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:03 am PDT
Reuters - A man who claimed to have been sent by Jesus to punish sinners rammed his car into a parked plane at an airport in southeastern Nigeria , an aviation spokesman said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Ohio woman gives birth to twins a week apart
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:52 pm PDT
AP - An Ohio couple can look forward to an annual birthday season, because their new twins were born a week apart. Jennifer Renz of North Canton went into labor while at her doctor's office on March 22. She wasn't due for another 12 weeks but gave birth at a Cleveland hospital to a 1-pound, 13-ounce girl, named Grace. Full Story | Top |
Court: Woman's phone annoying, but not contempt
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:50 pm PDT
AP - A Florida appeal court has overturned a ruling in which a woman was held in contempt and her cell phone ordered destroyed after it rang in a courtroom. The Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach concluded that, while annoying, 28-year-old Michelle McRoy's actions did not meet the necessary legal standards for contempt. Full Story | Top |
Crocheting beats the Reich for odd title prize
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:32 am PDT
Reuters - Defying grim predictions that the economic downturn would clobber specialist books, the annual contest for oddest title has had a bumper year, with the 2009 winner being named on Friday as "Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes." Full Story | Top |
Stolen snack truck triggers feeding frenzy
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:46 pm PDT
AP - Atlantic City police said a Frito-Lay delivery truck was stolen, abandoned and recovered, but not before some people helped themselves to "free" snacks. Police Sgt. Monica McMenamin said the truck was stolen at about 10:45 a.m. Thursday when the driver went inside a store on Baltic Avenue, four blocks west of the Boardwalk casinos, to make a delivery. Full Story | Top |
Dracula creator's relative seeks Dublin memorial
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:23 pm PDT
Reuters - The Victorian Gothic novel Dracula is associated with the dense forests of Transylvania rather than the Georgian squares of Dublin, but the great great nephew of its Irish born author thinks that is an oversight. Full Story | Top |
Heathrow worker warned in scanner ogling claim
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:05 am PDT
Reuters - A security worker at London's Heathrow Airport has received a police warning and faces disciplinary action over claims he ogled a female colleague using a full-body scanner, officials said on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
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