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Nowthen, Minn., I Think Our City Has A Name

Last Updated: 7:00 PM 07/02/08 - The community north of the Twin Cities changed its name Monday from Burnsville Township to Nowthen. (Full Story)
Pair Caught Skinny Dipping In Portland Reservoir
Last Updated: 4:16 PM 07/01/08 - Two people caught skinny dipping in a Portland reservoir that is a main source of water for the city nearly caused (Full Story)
Giraffe Helps Camels, Zebras Escape From Circus

Last Updated: 4:11 PM 07/01/08 - Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a
Police spokesman. (Full Story)
Skunks under Ohio family's home reek havoc

Last Updated: 4:26 PM 06/18/08 - A family's dream home became a stinky nightmare after skunks moved in. They chewed underneath Kerry McCullough's house in Sheffield Lake, about 20 miles west of Cleveland, and started their own family. (Full Story)
Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy

Last Updated: 5:05 PM 06/11/08 - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday. (Full Story)
Student's Perfect Attendance Results In New Car

Last Updated: 5:25 PM 05/28/08 - From the first day of kindergarten through her last day of high school, Baker somehow made it to school for every day of classes, (Full Story)
Girl Scout Shatters Troop Record For Cookies Sold

Last Updated: 4:31 PM 05/14/08 - Dearborn teenager sells 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. (Full Story)
Prom Invite Is Written On Lacrosse Players' Bare Bottoms

Last Updated: 3:28 PM 05/01/08 - Thirteen members of a high school lacrosse team have been disciplined for baring their bottoms on which was written a prom invitation from one player to a girl.
(Full Story)
Louisiana Panel Blocks Anti-Droopy Pants Bill

Last Updated: 6:33 PM 04/22/08 - A state Senate panel rejected a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to wear one's pants too low, even as Cajun-country towns around Louisiana have been banning saggy pants from their streets.
(Full Story)
New Church Holds Service In Bar To Reach New People

Last Updated: 5:58 PM 04/22/08 - Another round and amen! Beer was on tap and a mechanical bull inspired the sermon as a new church held its inaugural service in a western Ohio bar. (Full Story)
Cross-Dresser Rams Car Into Lingerie Shop

Last Updated: 2:37 PM 04/16/08 - The man says they wouldn't hire him. (Full Story)
Programmer Pops Question On Girlfriend's Video Game

Last Updated: 4:44 PM 04/15/08 - Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question. (Full Story)
Legally Blind Golfer, 85, Gets Ace
Last Updated: 4:26 PM 04/15/08 - An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley. (Full Story)
Woman Found Living With Rats And Snakes

Last Updated: 3:30 PM 04/11/08 - Authorities say a woman has been found living with hundreds of rats and four malnourished snakes in a home outside Rochester. (Full Story)
Assessor Complains About His Assessment

Last Updated: 1:59 PM 04/10/08 - Harvey Levinson might be the last person his neighbors would expect to complain about the assessment on his condominium. After all, he's the county assessor. (Full Story)
Postal Workers Attacked By Wild Turkeys

Last Updated: 2:01 PM 04/09/08 - Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers in a West Side neighborhood near Owen Conservation Park are being pestered by wild turkeys this spring. (Full Story)
Bride, Groom Spend Wedding Night In Jail

Last Updated: 6:20 PM 04/07/08 - Police said a bride and groom spent their first night as a married couple in jail after their wedding party at a Vallejo home got out of hand.
(Full Story)
Alleged bank robber leaves her photo ID

Last Updated: 4:50 PM 04/04/08 - A would-be bank robber came away empty-handed but left behind something useful for police: her photo identification. (Full Story)
Council Member Complains Over Thrown Pen

Last Updated: 4:46 PM 04/04/08 - Fur may not be flying in Iron Mountain MI politics, but an airborne pen has led one city council member to make a criminal complaint against a colleague.
(Full Story)
Cops Bust High School Root Beer Kegger

Last Updated: 3:01 PM 04/01/08 - Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands. (Full Story)
Drunken Man Awakes Inside Garbage Truck

Last Updated: 7:35 PM 03/31/08 - William M. Bowen woke up after a night of drinking with friends and realized he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck full of waste.
(Full Story)
VW Beetle-Turned-Police Car Turns Heads
Last Updated: 2:50 PM 03/25/08 - Blount County's newest police cruiser has been turning heads, but whether it could keep up in a high-speed chase seems unlikely.
(Full Story)
World's Tallest Man Struggles To Fit In

Last Updated: 2:09 PM 03/25/08 - Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus.
(Full Story)
'Missing' Pair Return To News Conference
Last Updated: 8:54 PM 03/10/08 - A Melbourne couple returning home from vacation Monday were shocked to discover police about to hold a news conference at their house about their suspicious disappearance. (Full Story)
Vt. Towns approve Bush 'Indictment'

Last Updated: 2:51 AM 03/06/08 - Two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
(Full Story)
Vt. Town Votes on Bush 'Indictment'

Last Updated: 3:25 PM 03/04/08 - Voters in this southern Vermont town were deciding Tuesday whether to approve a measure calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on charges of violating the Constitution. (Full Story)
Detectives Say Man Asked Friend To Shoot Him In The Arm So He Could Skip Work
Last Updated: 4:22 PM 03/03/08 - What happened to faking a cough?

(Full Story)
N.J. Student Penny-Protesters Pardoned

Last Updated: 4:18 PM 03/03/08 - Twenty-nine New Jersey students punished with two-day detentions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon (Full Story)
Iraq Vet Wins $1M in Scratch-Off Lottery

Last Updated: 4:26 PM 02/29/08 - A 26-year-old Iraq war veteran bought four scratch-off lottery tickets at a convenience store after an evening workout and wound up winning $1 million. (Full Story)
Leap Year Babies Can Celebrate On B-Day

Last Updated: 4:23 PM 02/29/08 - Tillie Iverson is observing her 24th birthday Friday — at the age of 96.
(Full Story)
It's Clinton, Not Obama. No, it's Obama!

Last Updated: 4:49 PM 02/28/08 - Authorities say a man stabbed his brother-in-law during an argument over who should get the Democratic nomination for president. (Full Story)
Police Probe Possible Spork Robbery

Last Updated: 5:45 PM 02/27/08 - Anchorage police have arrested a suspect in an armed robbery. Now they're trying to determine if the weapon involved was a spork — a hybrid of a spoon and fork found at fast-food restaurants. (Full Story)
Man Clings to Girlfriend's Car in Fight

Last Updated: 9:38 PM 02/25/08 - A man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than a mile on a busy road, hitting several other cars, police said.
(Full Story)
Michigan Eatery Builds a Bigger Burger

Last Updated: 9:38 PM 02/25/08 - A Detroit-area restaurant owner believes he has broken the world record for "largest hamburger commercially available." (Full Story)
Police Bust Chop Shop — For Snowmobiles

Last Updated: 9:39 PM 02/25/08 - The determination of an angry snowmobile owner — plus miles and miles of tracks in the snow — have led police to a suspected chop shop for stolen snowmobiles.

(Full Story)
Rescuers Free Boy Stuck in Washer

Last Updated: 3:16 PM 02/05/08 - Talk about an oversized load: A four-year-old boy got stuck when he climbed into his family's top-loading washing machine, and firefighters had to use a metal cutter to slice into the appliance to get him out. (Full Story)
Law Would Ban Serving Obese Diners

Last Updated: 4:55 PM 02/05/08 - A Mississippi lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers — but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law. (Full Story)
Error Puts Horse Ad In Food Classifieds

Last Updated: 8:57 PM 01/23/08 - Kristen DeGroat just wanted to sell her horse to another animal lover, but her ad ended up under "Good Things to Eat" in the classified sections of two newspapers. (Full Story)
Man Allegedly Offers Cop $5 For Hit

Last Updated: 8:53 PM 01/23/08 - An man is accused of offering an undercover officer $5 and 90 pills of the painkiller Oxycotin to kill a woman.

(Full Story)
Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO

Last Updated: 10:50 PM 01/15/08 - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.

(Full Story)
Talk About Things Going Really Wrong...

Last Updated: 11:26 PM 01/15/08 - Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store. (Full Story)
Kan. police chief who stole beer fired

Last Updated: 4:49 PM 01/09/08 - A small-town police chief has been fired after he was convicted of stealing beer from the fire department's refrigerator. (Full Story)
2 bring corpse to store to cash check

Last Updated: 4:45 PM 01/09/08 - Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said. (Full Story)
Speeder hides by burrowing into ground

Last Updated: 7:28 PM 01/04/08 - A man who was stopped for speeding nearly evaded state troopers by burrowing into soft ground along Highway 169 and covering himself with dirt and leaves.
(Full Story)
Women get stuck in elevator for 2 days

Last Updated: 7:22 PM 01/04/08 - Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued. (Full Story)
Couple hits bigger lottery than thought

Last Updated: 7:27 PM 01/03/08 - A lucky couple expecting to cash in their winning Michigan Lottery ticket became a bit peeved when a store clerk turned down their request. (Full Story)
Woman may move after car hits home again

Last Updated: 7:22 PM 01/03/08 - In real estate, it's all about location, location, location. That's turning out to be not such a good thing for Jodi Courtaway's duplex in Alton, Ill. For the second time in less than a year, a vehicle has slammed into the bedroom of Courtaway's 7-year-old son on Wednesday. (Full Story)
Digital TV Coupon Program Gets Under Way

Last Updated: 10:03 PM 01/02/08 - Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting. (Full Story)
Woman gets surprise wedding for Xmas

Last Updated: 5:10 PM 12/26/07 - Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.

(Full Story)
Armless man gets 5 years for driving

Last Updated: 1:51 PM 08/06/07 - A man with no arms and one leg who wouldn't stop driving despite a long list of traffic violations was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on felony driving and drug charges.
(Full Story)
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Tulip time
Submitted By: Robert E Doty
Location: Back Yard
Spring time in Michigan

snow plow
Submitted By: Patty Clemons
Location: my front yard!
see what happens when you take a corner to fast.

Barred Owl
Submitted By: Joyce Lounsbery
Location: Jackson, Michigan
DON'T SPEED...I'm watching you!

Lost Dog!
Submitted By: Deb Merrifield
Location: Home
I am looking for my daughters dog. Lost on Turner st. Lansing MI(northside). please post every where if you could.My daughter is so heart broken w/o him.

Loves of my life
Submitted By: Jeff Young
Location: Lansing
My two little ones dancing during the family holiday picture

One of Misty's favorite places
Submitted By: April Moore
Location: In the bathroom of my old house
My cat misty loved laying in the sink at our old house. No one believed me, so I took a picture and managed to get an incredible shot!

Salmon Fishing
Submitted By: April Brown
Location: Grand Haven MI
The Big Catch...Salmon Fishing in Lake Michigan at Grand Haven!

Waverly Marching Band Camp
Submitted By: Patty Roost
Location: Kimball Camp, Reading, MI
Students gather on the last day of band camp, after the parents performance.

Cedar Point employee, Jon Roost
Submitted By: Patty Roost
Location: Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio
2006 Waverly High School Grad, Jon Roost works "Maverick", the newest rollercoaster at Cedar Point

Waverly Women's Golf Team 2007
Submitted By: Patty Roost
Location: Lansing, MI
Waverly High School's Women's Golf Team

Waverly Colorguard at Mackinac Island
Submitted By: Patty Roost
Location: Mackinac Island
Waverly H.S. Colorguard camp was held in Indian River, MI this year and the girls had a chance to go to Mackinac Island. Many had never been there. Everyone had a great time!

Clouds over Grand Haven
Submitted By: Robert E Doty
Location: Grand Haven
Clouds across Lake Mich Thursday night 7/19/07 at 8;45 p.m. I have 4 others

June 26,2007 Hail
Submitted By: Yvonne Sparks
Location: Jackson ,Mi.
Hail stones.

Brown Crane at MIS
Submitted By: Brad Wilson
Location: Thursday, 6/14/2007
This brown crane appears to be looking for a way in to the fun and food at MIS!

Potterville Pallet Co. Fire
Submitted By: Holly Franck
Location: Holt
This photo was taken from my front yard in Holt, we are 11 miles from Potterville.
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