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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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