Offbeat News
-
"Beautiful Bulldog" contest winner gives good face
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:28PM April 23, 2012 CommentDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Tyson, a beloved English bulldog, doesn't bite ears like his namesake, boxer Mike Tyson, but he does share a title — champion.
-
DA: Pa. man hid phone in jail in prosthetic leg
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:51AM April 23, 2012 CommentUNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A county detective says a man serving six months in a southwestern Pennsylvania county jail illegally hid a cellphone and charger in his prosthetic leg.
-
Detective bumps into cigarette-buying suspect
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:03PM April 21, 2012 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan detective can credit legwork, luck and one man's bad habit for his latest arrest.
-
SF restaurant known for 'rudest waiter' closing
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:34PM April 20, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 100-year-old Chinese restaurant in San Francisco once known for having "the world's rudest waiter" is slinging its last insults and barbequed pork noodle rolls.
-
New Mexico fat cat weighs in at nearly 40 pounds
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:22PM April 20, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Meow can't help but waddle. He's one super-sized cat.
-
North Dakota bridles at neighbor's Capitol insult
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:38PM April 20, 2012 CommentBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's governor has bridled at a Minnesota lawmaker's scathing assessment of the state's austere, Depression-era Capitol, saying the critic knows little about architecture.
-
Rare 1792 penny sells for $1.15 million
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:21PM April 20, 2012 CommentSCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — When is a penny worth $1.15 million? When it is a rare experimental penny minted in 1792.
-
Physics paper wasn't why traffic ticket was tossed
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:19AM April 20, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego court commissioner is denying that a scientist's physics paper had anything to do with her dismissing his $200 traffic ticket.
-
W.Va. artist charged with littering in potty prank
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:46AM April 20, 2012 CommentMARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia artist is charged with littering after he placed a toilet on a pedestal in a city square in what he says was a plea for more public art.
-
Ohio police bring lost man home, 280 miles away
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:36AM April 20, 2012 CommentHILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — Police in the small southwest Ohio city of Hillsboro have returned an 82-year-old man to his home 280 miles away after he apparently got lost while driving in his Indiana hometown.
-
Slovenia and Austria at odds over sausage
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:47AM April 20, 2012 CommentKRANJ, Slovenia (AP) — It's a diplomatic rift that has both countries hungry for a fight. The subject of the spat? A humble pork sausage.
-
Alabama bans beer brand over dirty name on label
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:32PM April 19, 2012 CommentBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — You can buy Fat Bastard wine in Alabama, but you'll have to go elsewhere for Dirty Bastard beer.
-
Attendance scam hits Berkeley High School
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:04PM April 19, 2012 CommentBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of students at Berkeley High School are facing suspension or expulsion after school officials say they got into a computer system and changed their attendance records.
-
Slovenian pilot completes global ultralight flight
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:25PM April 19, 2012 CommentLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A Slovenian pilot has completed a 62,000-mile (99,774-kilometer) journey around the globe in a fuel-saving ultralight plane.
-
Bullet leaves hole in Boston boy's Celtics shirt
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:38AM April 19, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — A 9-year-old Boston boy says divine intervention saved his life when a bullet fired in the street outside his home came through his bedroom wall and left a smoking hole in the Boston Celtics jersey he was wearing.
-
Whistlers pucker up and blow into Carolina town
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:37AM April 19, 2012 CommentLOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) — John Ruggieri didn't make it to the finals of last year's International Whistling Convention. So this year, he's going to spice his act up a bit.
-
Photo of gas theft from police car brings arrest
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:58AM April 19, 2012 CommentJENKINS, Ky. (AP) — There it was on Facebook for all to see — Michael Baker with a gas can, a siphon hose stuck into a police cruiser in eastern Kentucky and a middle finger raised.
-
Phone call from 'Baby's momma' helps nab suspect
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:18AM April 19, 2012 CommentBAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Thanks to a ringing cellphone with an incoming call from "Baby's momma," police in Michigan say they were able to track down a suspected robber.
-
Calif. scientist uses physics to dodge ticket
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:30PM April 18, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — A University of California San Diego scientist was able to use his math and physics knowledge to argue his way out of a $400 traffic ticket.
-
Airport stripper says he was 'nude but not lewd'
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:22PM April 18, 2012 Comment (1)PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being "nude but not lewd," and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.
