| | Police: Man tries to buy crack with credit card
Feb 8 2010 8:06PM CT
FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Authorities said a man accused of stealing a car then reporting it stolen remains in custody after telling police he was robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy crack cocaine with a credit card. The Flint Journal said the man reported Thursday night that a 2003 Chevy Malibu had been stolen. | | |
Man rescued after 3 days in snow-covered SUV in CO
12:46AM CT
SAGUACHE, Colo. (AP) - A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had not food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for three days. | | |
Cattle battle: NZealand has more cows than kiwis
Feb 8 2010 10:26PM CT
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealanders who for decades have endured jokes about being outnumbered 20-to-1 by sheep have a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows. | | |
Man points gun at neighbor over snow shoveling
Feb 8 2010 5:33PM CT
NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) - New Castle County Police said a man pointed a gun at a neighbor who was shoveling snow on Saturday at the Hampton Walk Apartments. A man told police a neighbor came outside while he was shoveling, pointed a gun and threatened to shoot him if he didn't stop shoveling snow onto his car. | | |
Teen crashes car into school, drives down hall
Feb 8 2010 5:28PM CT
SHORELINE, Wash. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall. The car finally stopped 75 yards later when it hit a security office. Two school workers were still on the property and heard the crash. | | |
Rotten radishes prompt gas leak calls in Ohio
Feb 8 2010 2:32PM CT
DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of suspicious smells in the last 45 days. A field of oilseed radishes, planted as a cover crop that adds nutrients to the field, is near a natural gas compression station and a gas exchange station. | | |
Ohio strip club hosts 'Lap dances for Haiti'
Feb 8 2010 2:25PM CT
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A strip club in Ohio has raised $1,000 for Haitian earthquake relief during what was billed as "Lap dances for Haiti." Marilyn's on Monroe in Toledo donated the $10 cover charges collected Saturday to ISOH (I-S-O-H)/IMPACT, an organization based in suburban Perrysburg that provides food and clothing for Haiti. | | |
Wyoming suspect flees into police station
Feb 6 2010 12:58PM CT
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) - Police say a man suspected of stealing a bottle of Schnapps from a Wyoming grocery store didn't have the best escape route planned. | | |
Pot smoker accused of trying to bribe urine tester
Feb 5 2010 8:09PM CT
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - A pot-smoking parolee in Colorado faces criminal charges for allegedly offering a cash bribe to try to pass a drug test. Police said a 34-year-old man tried Jan. 3 to bribe a state worker to allow him to use a device called a "Whizzinator" to pass a drug test he had to take while on parole. The man allegedly said he had a medical marijuana card, though officials couldn't confirm whether that was true. | | |
Sledder, 62, hurt when improvised rocket blows up
Feb 5 2010 8:08PM CT
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A 62-year-old sledder looking for a burst of power got it when the homemade rocket strapped to his back exploded, burning him over nearly 20 percent of his body. Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was hospitalized in stable condition Monday. | | |
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