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31st July
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Doris Thompson hasn't let age slow her down. At 80, she's still ransacking and burglarizing medical offices.
Paris Hilton is giving blondes a bad name
Californians had better start watching their mouths
Seeing a Jaguar with tyres is nothing special ? but a jaguar made out of tyres is a little different.
Water gushed from a leak in a shark-filled aquarium in a ritzy Dubai mall on Thursday, sending startled shoppers scattering and shutting down nearby shops in one of the city's proudest attractions.
A thief who tried to avoid identification by going shoeless during some Fort Worth-area holdups must serve 35 years in prison
Police in Georgia are searching for a pair of hungry bandits who stole an order of chicken wings from a pizza delivery driver.
A roll of the dice put Mark Stolarski on the city council in Sealy
Reuters - There were some embarrassed faces at Bulgaria's tax office on Thursday after an investigation found more than 400 tax inspectors had failed to pay their traffic fines.
Camels are seen as spectators place their bids on them during the Reuters - Ten golden-colored camels adorned with sparkling ornaments line up for the finale of a beauty contest in one of the UAE's northern emirates, awaiting the selection of two proud winners.
An argument over a parking space escalated quite dramatically on Tuesday night - and ended up with a shoot-out between a man and the police.
A man who was thought to have had the longest hair in the world has died at his home in Vietnam, it has been reported.
That must have been painful - a hen has laid an egg four times the size of a normal egg, its owner said yesterday.
Two teenage thieves are facing charges after they made a fairly basic error while robbing a car - they accidentally called the emergency services, who overheard them discussing their crime.
A southwestern county prison board says a permanent solution to toilet-clogging inmates at the county jail could cost up to $200,000. The Fayette County commissioners, who head the prison board, say inmates clog the county jail's outmoded sewer lines by flushing sheets, pants and other items -- even light bulbs -- down the toilets in their cells.
An argument over a parking space prompted a shootout between a Pittsburgh man and police. Investigators said 61-year-old Errol Parker Sr. was in custody after firing shots at two officers responding to a 911 call in the city's Hill District on Tuesday night. No injuries were reported. Police said a man reported that Parker punched him and brandished a gun ...
Police in Georgia are searching for a pair of hungry bandits who stole an order of chicken wings from a pizza delivery driver. Columbus Police say the 19-year-old Domino's driver was approached outside a home Tuesday night by two men who asked for money. One of the men pointed a chrome pistol.
Pierce County prosecutors filed a charge of unlawful public exposure against a 19-year-old barista accused of wearing only a thong bottom and X-shaped pasties on her nipples. Prosecutors filed the misdemeanor charge Tuesday against the woman who worked at the Bikini Bottoms espresso stand in Puyallup. A passer-by had complained last October about seeing the woman topless.
A Tampa man faces charges after a deputy spotted him walking in a clown mask. According to jail records, the man was arrested Tuesday and charged with wearing a mask or hood on a public road over the age of 16 and resisting arrest without violence. The man, who turned 19 on Wednesday, has been released from Hillsborough County Jail ...
Police arrested a South Bend man for drunken driving after other motorists reported their vehicles were struck by a hose from a gasoline pump dangling from the fuel tank of the man's truck. St. Joseph County Police say the 46-year-old man failed several sobriety tests after he was stopped Monday night on state Route 2 just west of South Bend. ...


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