October 2008 Archives

It's a Halloween party at about the creepiest place you can think of.

>> Continue reading: Halloween party at Frankenstein Castle

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BOSTON (AP) -- Choochy the poodle is a "runway runaway."

Boston's Logan International Airport officials say Choochy escaped from her kennel as she was being unloaded after a flight from Detroit Saturday night and scampered across runways and taxiways.

>> Continue reading: Runaway poodle delays flights

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Border crossing guards are used to finding strange things hidden in strange places... but you will never guess what they found stowed away in a batch of diapers.

>> Continue reading: Smuggled sausages in the diapers

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NEW YORK (AP) -- She doesn't live in the White House -- and she may not be Katherine Kelly. Prosecutors in New York say they're trying to determine the true identity of the 76-year-old woman who ID'ed herself as Kelly.

>> Continue reading: Elderly woman busted for pickpocketing - again

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The worst part of this story is that the guy did it without telling his wife....

>> Continue reading: Man names baby Sarah McCain Palin

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NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Two friends from New Hampshire are the winners of the ninth annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship.

>> Continue reading: Wife carrying championship

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Arthur Watkins is going to remember 2008 as a great year financially.

>> Continue reading: Missouri man wins two Powerball payouts

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GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- Bob and Joanne Breiner got quite a scare when they returned to their suburban Washington home.

>> Continue reading: There's a stranger in my bed

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TOKYO (AP) -- Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.

>> Continue reading: Skinney dipper caught in palace moat

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MONROE, Wash. (AP) -- An online advertisement offered $28.50 an hour to anyone who wore a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, eye protection and ventilator mask and waited near a bank.

>> Continue reading: Bank robber hires decoys to fool cops

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- The experts are going to be looking at what some say is an image of th...

>> Continue reading: Image of Virgin Mary appears in hospital window

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BOSTON (AP) -- Coke really does have birth control properties. Professor Deborah Anderson of Boston University studied the urban legend that Coke could be used as a contraceptive.

>> Continue reading: Birth control soda

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Fort Myers, Fla. (AP) -- It's a painful way to make a point. Deputies in Florida say Jonathon Guabello shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him.

>> Continue reading: No sex prompts boyfriend to shoot himself

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If you are going to go to the trouble of trying to steal more than a million dollars ... you might as well take a minute to plan ahead. Apparently this gang of bumbling bandits didn't ... and they are paying for it.

>> Continue reading: Police search for dumb crooks

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) -- Nice kitty -- nice, big kitty. A Casper, Wyoming, police officer was dispatched to a home after a woman reported a pesky cat on her porch.

>> Continue reading: Big Kitty

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TOKYO (AP) -- Flipper has to fight the flab. Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a diet.

>> Continue reading: Dolphin diets

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