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Ohio county settles morgue photos suit
Aug 21 2007 10:44PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio county agreed Tuesday to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit over photos taken of posed bodies in the county morgue.
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Buying new jeans? Why not try Butt Cam?
Aug 21 2007 9:13PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Worried that new pair of high-fashion jeans may just make your butt look fat? Now shoppers in one upscale Scottsdale store can check it out for themselves before someone else makes the observation _ using the Butt Cam, a camera positioned just so that's connected to a video screen on a dressing room wall.
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Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale
Aug 21 2007 9:09PM (CT)
BENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end. "Oh, I love grilled poultry. But I usually buy it at the store," she said.
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Man's gift to wife nets $1M lotto prize
Aug 21 2007 8:53PM (CT)
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) - The lottery ticket Hugo Esparragoza wrapped in a box and gave to his wife turned out to be worth $1 million, lottery officials said.
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Spoon drop saves woman from house blast
Aug 21 2007 8:53PM (CT)
SODUS, N.Y. (AP) - Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton's life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.
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Woman, 90, marks birthday, escapes fire
Aug 21 2007 7:37PM (CT)
SUGAR HILL, N.H. (AP) - A woman had a close call hours after celebrating her 90th birthday with family and friends. Sophie Fedorowicz, owner of North Country Cottages in Sugar Hill, escaped a fire in her home early on Sunday morning. She had smelled a faint odor of smoke when she went to bed at midnight, after wrapping up the party.
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Congregation to demolish moldy church
Aug 21 2007 4:18PM (CT)
HOMEWOOD, Kan. (AP) - Throughout history, many have said the church is not a building; it is the people _ the body of worshippers _ that makes up a church. One congregation is being put to the test.
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Man on quest to find best chicken wings
Aug 21 2007 3:54PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Matt Reynolds is determined to find the world's best chicken wings and he's come home to do it. Reynolds is leading a caravan of wing lovers on a trek up and down and across New York state in search of the best chicken wings.
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Md. man gets jail time for junky yard
Aug 21 2007 3:37PM (CT)
CAPE ST. CLAIRE, Md. (AP) - A man is in jail after Anne Arundel County tried for seven years to get him to clean up the old boats, crab pots and other debris in his backyard.
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Police: ATM tamperer photographs himself
Aug 21 2007 3:35PM (CT)
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - A thief installed a camera on an ATM, but instead of card numbers, he ended up capturing an image of himself.
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Naked woman accused of hammer assaults
Aug 21 2007 3:32PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A woman who police say assaulted people with a hammer while she was naked was arrested on a variety of charges, including assault and obstruction of emergency communications.
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Man sorry but robs store anyway- twice
Aug 21 2007 3:30PM (CT)
VERNON, Conn. (AP) - A man who apologized after robbing a Subway at gunpoint returned a week later for more money and again said he was sorry, police said.
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Shark caught on Spanish beach
Aug 21 2007 10:44AM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Biologists caught a 7-foot-long shark that had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on a Spanish beach, wrestling it with their bare hands and dragging it ashore.
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Shark caught on Spanish beach
Aug 21 2007 10:44AM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Biologists caught a 7-foot-long shark that had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on a Spanish beach, wrestling it with their bare hands and dragging it ashore.
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Arm-wrestling game recalled in Japan
Aug 21 2007 8:46AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.
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