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05/13/2008
SWIMMER TOPS SHARK
Australian swimmer Jason Cull says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark over the weekend by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye.
M&MS USED IN ASSAULT, POLICE SAY
An Iowa college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit-and-run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms. Sean McGuire was arrested early Sunday at a convenience store after Drake University security guards noticed the officer being pelted by the colored candies, according to a police report. McGuire said he threw the candy because he was "sticking up for his friend," the report states.
05/06/2008
Beer fan set for eternity
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. – Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it.
05/05/2008
How's this for a special delivery?
LONG BEACH, Calif. – A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord.
05/02/2008
CHILE GETS SPICIER
A working-class suburb of Chile's capital, Santiago, began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because "an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life."
Teen to have feet corrected
NEW YORK – In her 15 years, Jingle Luis has never walked on the bottoms of her feet.
04/30/2008
PETS HOME SAFE, SOUND
• Lulu, an 8-month-old Springer Spaniel, has been found in good shape in Breckenridge, Colo., after spending eight days trapped under rubble left by an explosion that leveled a business and critically injured her owner.
Honeymoon's over - quickly
PITTSBURGH – A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells – she in her wedding gown – after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.
04/29/2008
300-POUND INMATE UNDERFED?
An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge in Bentonville, Ark., is suing the county, complaining he has lost more than 100 pounds because of the jailhouse menu. Broderick Lloyd Laswell says he isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food.
POLICE: MAN PUSHED INTO MINE
A man who called 911 after his friend survived a 500-foot fall at a Pennsylvania strip mine was charged yesterday with pushing him over the edge. While Nathan Bowman recovered from broken bones and other injuries in a hospital, Richard George was sent to Schuylkill County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. Authorities said in court documents that George admitted under questioning that he pushed Bowman into the canyon-shaped mine about 1 a.m. Friday after they got into an argument.
04/24/2008
Mom's diet may play role in baby's gender
CHICAGO – Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas?
04/22/2008
FLYING PRIEST LOST
A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing yesterday off the southern coast of Brazil. The Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli was trying to raise money for a spiritual rest-stop for truckers in Paranagua, Brazil.
Elevator ordeal is a Web hit
NEW YORK – A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become an Internet sensation after surveillance footage emerged after nearly a decade.
04/21/2008
Dog rescued from island
LOS ANGELES – An 8-month-old dog named Snickers spent three months adrift in the Pacific with his owners and a parrot until their 48-foot sailboat ran aground in December on tiny Fanning Island, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii.
04/18/2008
WHEN IN FRANCE ...
A singer representing France at next month's Eurovision song contest said yesterday that he is ready to add French lyrics to his mostly English-language tune to calm an uproar. But Sebastien Tellier (above) also said he doesn't agree with critics who suggest that English lyrics slight France or its language. "The baguette won't taste any worse tomorrow morning if I sing in English," he said.
Three plus one
TOWSON, Md. – A woman has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical.
04/17/2008
SEX DOESN'T ALWAYS SELL
Seven middle-aged Spanish mothers who posed for a tongue-in-cheek erotic calendar – a fundraiser for their children's tiny, rural school – are now saddled with nearly $16,000 in debt and 5,000 unwanted copies. The moms say they are trying their best to chip away at their debt, in part by paying out of their own small salaries.
ARREST KIND OF A DRAG
Police say a man dressed as a woman repeatedly crashed his car into a suburban Detroit lingerie store that refused to hire him. Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe says Jeremy McIntosh (above), 27, was arrested Saturday. Damage to the store was estimated at $3,000.
04/11/2008
COPS WRAP UP CASE
Police in Cincinnati say a trail of candy and wrappers led them to four suspects in a break-in at a downtown candy store.
THAT'S ONE LUCKY KID
A baby whose carriage was blown by the wind onto railroad tracks and run over by a train survived with little more than a bump, police in Moehlin, Switzerland, said yesterday. "The train went over the child, but luckily it had fallen between the rails," said Officer Bernhard Graser.
Cheney pic creates a stir
04/09/2008
Prince of Dubai buys $3M camel
MADINAT ZAYED, United Arab Emirates – Dubai's crown prince paid $2.7 million for a camel during a desert festival celebrating Bedouin traditions in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, state-run media said yesterday.
Animal art in demand
MILWAUKEE – Brittany wields her paintbrush with confidence, slapping it roughly against the canvas. With apparent pride, she steps back, inspects her work – and extends her trunk to receive a freshly loaded paintbrush.
04/07/2008
QUICK HITS
04/04/2008
Scandal helps hotel's shop
WASHINGTON – The hotel where former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer allegedly had a tryst with a high-priced call girl has been doing a brisk business in souvenirs since news of the scandal broke last month.
TODDLERS WON'T WED
Arkansas has repealed a law that mistakenly allowed anyone – even toddlers – to marry.
HOMEMADE TASER
A 14-year-old student in Connecticut has been accused of rigging a disposable camera so that it could deliver an electrical shock similar to a Taser. Police say the boy modified the camera using instructions from the Internet. He faces charges including possession of a dangerous weapon on school grounds.
PARTY IN HIS PANTS HAS MUSIC
Police are searching for a man accused of shoving an electric guitar in his pants and walking out of a store in Lewiston, Maine. Police say the theft of the Fender Stratocaster occurred last week and was caught on tape. Strangely enough, the music shop has seen the method before. A man did the same thing in 2006 but was caught as he tried to walk out.
04/03/2008
PLAYING DEAD FAILS
A burglar who broke into a funeral home near Valencia, Spain, tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest. The suspect's name was not released.
04/02/2008
Police: Teacher attack thwarted
WAYCROSS, Ga. – A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said yesterday.
03/31/2008
DISHONOR CODE?
University of Texas at San Antonio students wanted to draft an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing. Unfortunately, it appears they copied another school's code without proper attribution. The student in charge of drafting the code said it was an oversight, but cheating experts say the duplication of Brigham Young University's code illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don't know how to cite sources properly and think of computers as cut-and-paste machines.
03/28/2008
MAN CAN'T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE
A Kansas man whose girlfriend sat on his toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body has been arrested in a separate case. Authorities say Kory McFarren was arrested after being accused of exposing himself. His girlfriend remains hospitalized.
BILINGUAL SENTENCE
A Pennsylvania judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail. The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said.
Mayor wants ear for an ear
SANTIAGO, Chile – The angry mayor of Easter Island said yesterday that he wished a Finnish tourist accused of chipping an earlobe off an ancient Maoi could have his ear clipped off as "justice" for damaging one of the world-famous statues.
03/25/2008
Pawsing to pray
NAHA, Japan – At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays.
03/20/2008
QUICK HITS
Japan puts government money to work
03/14/2008
STUDENT REINSTATED
Connecticut eighth-grade honors student Michael Sheridan will get his post as class vice president back, school officials say, after it was stripped when he was caught with contraband Skittles candy in school. He was also suspended for a day and barred from attending an honors dinner.
TOILET CHARGE SOUGHT
A Kansas man should be charged for allowing his girlfriend to sit on their toilet so long that she became stuck to it, Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said yesterday. Kory McFarren, 36, told police his girlfriend, Pam Babcock, 35, had a phobia about leaving the bathroom and may not have left the room in two years.
JUST FAT LEGS, HUH?
Elisa Vazquez Sanchez, 40, of Mexico was charged yesterday with trying to smuggle more than 30 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of $1.36 million, into Britain by strapping bags of the drug to the legs of two children. Associated Press
QUICK HITS
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The Dutch parliament voted unanimously yesterday to outlaw bestiality and pornography involving animals. Animal pornography is explicitly forbidden in 80 countries, and pornographers had lobbied fiercely against a Dutch ban.
03/11/2008
Putin offers theater review
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin is dabbling in a new area: theater criticism.
03/10/2008
Bush gets applause for his singing chops
WASHINGTON – In a tuxedo and cowboy hat, President Bush sang his own farewell tune Saturday night at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, an invitation-only institution of Washington journalists.
02/15/2008
SOLIDS, NOT STRIPES
A Swedish preschool has been criticized for banning children from wearing striped and spotted clothing because the patterns give a teacher severe migraines. The school imposed the ban years ago, but a parent complained recently. Associated Press
CONDOMS BIG IN NYC
The official New York City condom has a different look and a sexy new slogan: New Yorkers were encouraged to "get some" on Valentine's Day. Street teams handed out the free condoms at busy hubs around the city yesterday. The initiative is part of the city's effort to reduce rates of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies.
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