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Vandals leave animal's heart in cemetery
Mar 14 2007 11:12PM (CT)
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - Six graves were disturbed by vandals who toppled headstones and placed candles, an animal heart, a gourd and a picture of a man among them, police said.
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Stamford to reimburse hunter for bow
Mar 14 2007 8:43PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Stamford will pay nearly $500 to a deer hunter whose bow was damaged when a police officer ordered him to drop it. Contractor Bryan Roddy of Norwalk had permission to hunt on a 1-acre Stamford property where he was doing some work, but a neighbor unaware of the arrangement called police in December to report a man with a gun in a tree.
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Hard-core porn interrupts news show
Mar 14 2007 8:29PM (CT)
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A cable news program was temporarily replaced with hard-core pornography, shocking viewers who had been watching a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. The incident Monday night on KPPX-TV was "an act of human sabotage" at the Phoenix-area station, said ION Television, which operates the station.
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Stray cats enter home, attack women, boy
Mar 14 2007 7:36PM (CT)
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday. A call for help Monday took animal control officer John Pettit to the home of Melissa Breva, Gutschenritter said. Breva told Pettit she had captured two cats in a bedroom.
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Virile gorilla leads to baby boom at zoo
Mar 14 2007 7:34PM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - For some zookeepers in Amsterdam, Akili turned out to be the gorilla their dreams. The Artis Zoo tried to mate their female gorillas with two other males, but wasn't having much luck in producing offspring. So they turned to Akili, a gorilla from a German safari park. The result was the first birth at the zoo in 10 years.
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Tenant in Pa. court saves her landlord
Mar 14 2007 7:34PM (CT)
FOLCROFT, Pa. (AP) - A tenant in court defending herself from a civil complaint by her landlord suddenly had to shift gears. La Tina Osborne, a pediatric nurse, was speaking when she noticed that the plaintiff, Genevieve Zumuda, 77, appeared stricken.
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You want us to do what for $20?
Mar 14 2007 7:32PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A former court security officer has been convicted of offering to pay a couple behind on a fine $20 an hour to have sex while he watched. The couple testified that they were skeptical when Robert Theriault told them they would be testing sheets and condoms as part of an insurance company survey to see if they increased sperm count.
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Beagle rescued from Tenn. mountain ledge
Mar 14 2007 7:17PM (CT)
WALLAND, Tenn. (AP) - A young beagle stranded on a mountain ledge proved a bark can be better than a bite by repeatedly howling until help arrived.
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Press box snake makes reporters flee
Mar 14 2007 3:53PM (CT)
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) - A 3-foot black snake sent reporters scurrying in the press box as the the New York Mets defeated the Cleveland Indians 6-5 in a spring training game on Tuesday.
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Jail deputies accused of phone sex
Mar 14 2007 3:20PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has reopened an internal investigation to determine whether two female deputies broke the law when they engaged in telephone sex with jail inmates.
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Austrian hunter makes a pig mistake
Mar 14 2007 3:10PM (CT)
LINZ, Austria (AP) - This little piggy should have gone to market instead of staying home. A housebroken pet pig with an unusual black hide was mistaken for a wild boar and shot by a hunter in woods near its owner's farm in northwestern Austria, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Church to remember turkey with silence
Mar 14 2007 3:04PM (CT)
WALES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Taking time to remember a wild turkey may seem strange, but a church will hold a moment of silence this Sunday for what the pastor called a model member of his congregation. The Rev. James Huff, pastor of Lambs United Methodist Church, said the turkey regularly attended Sunday services and greeted people as they arrived.
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Police: Dad hides stash in girl's pocket
Mar 14 2007 2:49PM (CT)
HILLSIDE, N.J. (AP) - Police here say a man charged with drug possession had an unusual place to store his stash: his 6-year-old daughter's jacket pocket. Dennis Riker, 41, raised suspicions Monday morning when he stopped by his daughter's school in Hillside, saying he had left his keys in her jacket.
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Coach gives birth, then goes to game
Mar 14 2007 8:42AM (CT)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - The Nebraska-Kearney basketball team didn't mind that coach Carol Russell was a little late for the game.
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Colo. couple find faceless dollar coin
Mar 14 2007 1:15AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
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Colo. couple find faceless dollar coin
Mar 14 2007 1:15AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
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Colo. couple find faceless dollar coin
Mar 14 2007 1:15AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
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