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31st July
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A Brooklyn woman said a mugger stole a doggie coat right off the back of her mild-mannered terrier. Donna McPherson said she tied up Lexie, her 10-year-old Westie, outside a Park Slope supermarket "for two minutes" while she bought milk. She heard a "funny... Email this Article Add to del.icio.us Add to digg Add to Facebook
It's a moo-ving story of a young cow with an unusual adornment, but we never 'tire' of telling it
A Brooklyn woman says a mugger stole a doggie coat right off the back of her mild-mannered terrier.
A Brooklyn woman says a mugger stole a doggie coat right off the back of her mild-mannered terrier.
A man police dubbed the Bicycle Bandit has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware
A man police dubbed the Bicycle Bandit has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware.
Customers enjoy an evening in the Apartment restaurant in Jakarta February 6, 2010. REUTERS/SupriReuters - There is a restaurant in Jakarta that promises patrons they're going to feel at home and things look promising when a pajama-wearing waiter asks if you'd like to dine in the bedroom.
A customer selects roses at a flower shop ahead of Valentine's Day in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality February 13, 2007. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A week before Valentine's Day, a consignment of cocaine was found hidden among 20,000 roses from Latin America at Amsterdam airport, Dutch authorities said Wednesday.
Reuters - An influx of cheap electronic goods from China and the Far East has prompted British burglars to turn to other crimes such as robberies and muggings, according to research published on Wednesday.
Reuters - Grumpy colleagues, slow computers and office jargon are the things that annoy workers most, according to a survey on Wednesday.
Dogs love chasing cats an eating meat - except for Joey, a dog who is allergic to cats, meat, and everything else except potatoes and porridge.
A drunk man allegedly got a bit more than he bargained for when he went on a drunken joyride - because he stole an ambulance with a patient and paramedics still inside it.
An American man is claiming that he was beaten by sheriff's deputies while being held in jail, because they didn't like his burping.
A man accidentally shot himself in the leg shortly after leaving a Jupiter gun store. Police said the unidentified man went to Chuck's Guns and Ammo Monday afternoon, looking for batteries for the laser sight on a small handgun. When the man was back in his car, the gun accidentally fired, hitting him in the leg.
A man police dubbed the Bicycle Bandit has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware.
An 11-year-old boy faces assault and weapon charges for trying to stab a classmate with a pencil over a math problem. Police in New Hartford, 80 miles west of Albany, said the boy was mad because a classmate kept trying to help him in math class on Monday. When the would-be helper wouldn't back off, police said the boy lashed ...
A heated row in a working men's club between two men over the last bag of nuts boiled over into a street fight involving 50 people.
A last-minute decision by MTV in Mexico not to broadcast an episode of the US cartoon show South Park sparks criticism and derision.
Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside. The Dane County Sheriff's Department says emergency responders were treating a patient in the back of the ambulance at the Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area in Mount Horeb on Monday night. They say a 24-year-old Illinois man got into ...
Los Angeles County prosecutors are looking into a complaint that the mayor of Carson cuts off public speakers at City Council meetings if he doesn't like what they're saying. David Demerjian of the district attorney's office said the complaint claims that Mayor Jim Dear hits the mute button on speakers before the three-minute time limit is up.


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