Dog bumps car into neutral, causing fender-bender
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT
AP - Wisconsin police said a dog caused a fender-bender in a parking lot when it knocked a parked car's gear shift into neutral. Middleton police said the car's owner had stopped for lunch Thursday and left his dog in the car. Full Story | Top |
Cops: Drunk man steals ambulance, leads slow chase
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT
AP - San Diego police said a man just out of the hospital for intoxication stole an ambulance and fled from police before they stopped him with spike strips. Police said 52-year-old Paul John Sos was arrested Saturday on suspicion of auto theft, failure to yield to police and felony drunk driving. Full Story | Top |
Police: Carjackers foiled by manual transmission
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT
AP - Police in eastern Pennsylvania said two men tried to rob and carjack a pizza delivery driver but were defeated by the vehicle's standard transmission. Fountain Hill police said the Domino's Pizza driver had stopped at a red light early Friday when a man ran up to the vehicle from the rear and grabbed her by the throat and shirt. He demanded money while a second man tried to open the passenger door. Full Story | Top |
Mom says her baby saved her family from house fire
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT
AP - A mother said her newborn baby saved her family from a house fire by waking them up with its cries. Police told WKYT-TV they suspect a drunk neighbor burned down the home south of Hyden, in Leslie County, on Friday. 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 |
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 |
Drunk man calls police to help him out of bar
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:52 pm PDT
AP - Drunk in a bar and can't get out, who you gonna call? Police. That's what Todd Fitzwater did in Lexington. WLEX-TV reported Fitzwater called 911 Thursday and said he'd gotten drunk and passed out at Todd's Karaoke Bar the night before, awakened and had a few more — then couldn't get out of the bar, which was closed. 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 |
It's not Rudolph, but dang is he cute
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:36 am PDT
AP - With wobbly legs but no red nose, the first of 19 expected reindeer calves has been born at an Alaska farm that's the only reindeer research facility in North America. Full Story | Top |
Fla. chef has 9 reasons his octopus tastes better
Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:11 pm PDT
 AP - Nineopus. Novopus. Freak of nature. Whatever you want to call it, the nine-legged octopus probably had a leg up on all the other creatures in the Gulf of Mexico — until it was caught and found its way to Hellas Bakery and Restaurant in Florida. 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 |
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