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5th January
Last updated 3 hours, 49 minutes ago
AP - Sure, Trevor was a dummy, but police want him back — and whoever stole the uniformed mannequin from a patrol car could face felony charges.
CHICAGO - A cleaning crew in Beijing discovered eight baby mice aboard a United Airlines plane that landed in the Chinese capital, airline officials said Wednesday.
CHICAGO - A cleaning crew in Beijing discovered eight baby mice aboard a United Airlines plane that landed in the Chinese capital, airline officials said Wednesday.
AP - Dog isn't this man's best friend. Josue Herrios-Coronilla, 18, drove his black Camaro on the wrong side of the road Wednesday and crashed into the yard of man who owns four dogs, police said.
AP - A Swedish landlord inspecting a recently vacated cottage got an ugly surprise when she found dozens of dead or ailing snakes, mice, rats and lizards locked up in cages inside the house.
AP - Intimidated by snowy, slippery roads, a teacher cracked open a can of chili and slept in her classroom. Emma Clisante had a sleeping bag, pillow, toothbrush and fresh clothes Tuesday night at Ogden Preparatory Academy.
AP - A Janesville couple are hoping they will be allowed to keep the nearly $12,000 in cash they found in their refrigerator when they moved into an apartment.
A 33-year-old Czech woman managed to spend several months posing as a 13-year-old boy named "Adam," fooling teachers and child care workers in Norway, police said Thursday. Barbora Skrlova was deported back to the Czech Republic and detained on...
AP - A 33-year-old Czech woman managed to spend several months posing as a 13-year-old boy named "Adam," fooling teachers and child care workers in Norway, police said Thursday.
Reuters - A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a U.S. government audit released on Thursday.
AP - The reward for information wasn't much: 30 bucks. Then again, neither was the crime: a cafeteria food fight.
Dog distraught when his best friend, a cat, dies. So his digs up his grave and brings him back inside. Awwww/ewwww.
Woman runs over her husband in her car. This is only news because her husband's called King Money Tarzan Jenkins.
A groping Santa, a drunken car chase, and a bloody punch-up - just some highlights from Christmas in the Antarctic.
Man uses circular saw to cut off own hand, then cooks it in the microwave. We've all had days like that.
If there is one place to avoid while on the lam in a zoo, the tiger pit probably comes close to the top of the list.
By The Associated Press Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet." After finding alcohol in her son's car, the Fort Dodge, Iowa, woman decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone by placing an ad in the local newspaper.
By Tom Hays; Clare Trapasso NEW YORK -- Detective Travis Rapp has seen his share of corpses, but this was new: two men wheeling a rigid, pale body down a Manhattan street in a red office chair, drawing a crowd of suspicious onlookers.
Reuters - A man and a woman in Germany lost their jobs after pretending to be on a training course while taking an S&M sex holiday at their employer's expense.
The logo of Barclays bank is seen at a branch in central London April 20, 2007. A fraudster posing as chairman of Barclays  tricked his own bank's credit card arm into issuing a new card before taking cash from his account, a Barclaycard source said on Thursday. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - A fraudster posing as chairman of Barclays tricked his own bank's credit card arm into issuing a new card before taking cash from his account, a Barclaycard source said on Thursday.


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