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Panda poop paper yields big profits
Nov 22 2006 11:38PM (CT)
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - There's the Panda Express fast-food chain. Jing Jing, a mascot for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The forthcoming animated movie, Kung Fu Panda. Even a Mexican rock band named after the cuddly bear.
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Midnight Zamboni run prompts firings
Nov 22 2006 11:35PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An anonymous tipster reported seeing the two big ice-resurfacing machines chug through a Burger King drive-through and return to the rink around 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 10. The squat, rubber-tired vehicles, which have a top speed of about 5 mph, drove 1 1/2 miles in all.
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Backyard toilet fence upsets neighbors
Nov 22 2006 11:35PM (CT)
SOAP LAKE, Wash. (AP) - Some people use scarecrows to chase away birds, or garlic to block vampires. Rick Froebe uses toilets to repel golfers. Froebe has erected a backyard "fence" made of seven old toilets, a few used bathtubs and some broken-down water heaters, all designed to prevent golfers from the adjacent Lakeview Golf & Country Club from approaching his yard.
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Turkeys try to catch train out of N.J.
Nov 22 2006 11:34PM (CT)
RAMSEY, N.J. (AP) - Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman for the NJ Transit said train officials reported a dozen or so wild turkeys waiting on a station platform in Ramsey, about 20 miles northwest of New York City, on Wednesday afternoon. The line travels to Suffern, N.Y.
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Man eats 4.8 pounds of turkey in 12 min.
Nov 22 2006 9:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - There won't be any turkey for Patrick Bertoletti on Thanksgiving _ he got his fill the day before. Bertoletti, a 21-year-old culinary student from Chicago, won the annual turkey-eating contest at Artie's Deli on Wednesday, eating 4.8 pounds of the holiday bird _ a full pound more than the second-place finisher.
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Semi with live turkeys crashes in Iowa
Nov 22 2006 6:40PM (CT)
AINSWORTH, Iowa (AP) - A toppled semitrailer gave its load of live turkeys little to be thankful for. The semi carrying 900 of the birds tipped onto its side early Tuesday morning as it was turning on an exit ramp from Iowa Highway 92 to U.S. Highway 218 in southeast Iowa.
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150-200 dogs removed from S.D. house
Nov 22 2006 6:20PM (CT)
PROVO, S.D. (AP) - The Humane Society of the Black Hills removed 150-200 dogs from the rural residence of an elderly woman at Provo in southwest South Dakota.
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Boy calls 911 49 times from Texas school
Nov 22 2006 6:06PM (CT)
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - Police in this Austin suburb were stumped for hours by the 49 emergency calls that kept coming in from an unregistered cell phone. The caller would say nothing before hanging up, sometimes after a brief giggle. Eventually, though, police found their man, er child: a 7-year-old calling from his elementary school classroom just for kicks.
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Pa. woman sentenced in pot homework case
Nov 22 2006 6:00PM (CT)
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for doing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison.
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Hong Kong mulls green 'eco' coffins
Nov 22 2006 5:58PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - They're presentable, environmentally friendly and burn faster: cardboard "eco-coffins" may just be the solution to long queues at Hong Kong's busy crematoriums, officials say.
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Recliner saves man who was shot in head
Nov 22 2006 5:40PM (CT)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - Now comes another reason to stay put in the La-Z-Boy: A man sitting in his easy chair was shot in the head by his wife, but the sturdy recliner absorbed most of the bullet's force and left him virtually unscathed.
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Bigamist 'butt' busted by wife No. 4
Nov 22 2006 5:40PM (CT)
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - A man who dresses up as a giant cigarette and uses hip-hop music to encourage children in Lynchburg and beyond to avoid smoking pleaded guilty Tuesday to bigamy. Phillip Dale Williams, 37, had as many as four wives at the same time, Chuck Felmlee, deputy commonwealth's attorney, said.
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Woman, 92, dies in shootout with police
Nov 22 2006 7:25AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A police official said narcotics officers were justified in returning fire on a 92-year-old woman they shot to death after she shot them as they tried to serve a warrant at her house.
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Smuggled orangutans arrive in Indonesia
Nov 22 2006 5:09AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Dozens of orangutans trained to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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Ohio town develops own 'scent-sibility'
Nov 22 2006 12:45AM (CT)
BEDFORD, Ohio (AP) - A local business owner is hoping for at least a whiff of success from her unusual fundraising tool: special fragrances inspired by this Cleveland suburb.
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