Woman calls 911 to report herself as drunk driver
11/03/2009 | 04:14 PM
NEILSVILLE, Wis. – The call came into the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk." And with that, Mary Strey, 49, of Granton, reported herself as a drunken driver about...
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Thirst drives escaped Bicol inmates back to jail
11/03/2009 | 08:44 AM
Five inmates, including one accused of double murder, escaped from a government detention facility Sunday night, but thirst forced them to ask for water, which led four of them to be recaptured.
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N.H. restaurant sets meatball record
11/02/2009 | 08:57 AM
CONCORD, N.H. – The bouncing mega-meatball record has landed in the East Coast. Matthew Mitnitsky, owner of Nonni's Italian Eatery in Concord, said Sunday that a 222.5-pound meatball was...
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Too fat to kill? Fla. man uses weight as a defense
10/29/2009 | 08:19 AM
HACKENSACK, N.J. – A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, he was just too fat to have pulled it...
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Man who threw feces in CA courtroom gets 31 yrs
10/28/2009 | 09:35 AM
SAN DIEGO – A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in...
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US cop accused of pulling gun at haunted house
10/27/2009 | 12:50 PM
A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chain-saw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said Monday.
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