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Bryce Moore: April 2009 ArchivesLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- He may have broken the law, but a Nebraska inmate still can't change his name to "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir." Court documents say 23-year-old Jonathan L. Thomas cited his Norse religion in seeking the name change to Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir. He says he "is a heathen and Thor is his 'High God."' But Lancaster County District Judge Steve Burns denied the request. He said government agencies will ...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- Joyriding is costing a Florida deputy his badge. But it wasn't lawman Charles Buckner who was behind the wheel. Polk County officials say Buckner has resigned after his wife and his mother-in-law took his patrol car for a spin. Gail Buckner and Sharon Cooper now face a number of charges, including vehicle theft and impersonating an officer. Authorities say they were tipped by witnesses who saw ... PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) -- What's a bigger mistake? Trying to steal a truck that doesn't run? Or trying to steal a truck with a county logo? How about both? Deputies in Jefferson County, Arkansas, report they became suspicious after seeing several men pushing a county pickup truck near the jail. Officials say the truck doesn't run and was being used as a source for spare parts. Deputies busted two young men and are looking f... EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- No shirt, no shorts, no Frisbee! A five-member student board at the University of Oregon is pulling the plug on the Ultimate Frisbee squad. There had been a complaint members of the men's team played naked at Oregon State earlier this month. The third-ranked Ducks were among the favorites to win their second national Ultimate Frisbee title. The team had been on probation since November, after police found... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Happy the hippo could soon be a lot happier. The National Zoo's solitary male Nile hippopotamus is heading to the Milwaukee County Zoo, where his new home will include a pool, a sandy beach and two potential girlfriends, Puddles and Patty. Zoo officials say they're sad to see Happy go, but that Milwaukee will offer him a great life. Happy is 27 and weighs about 7,000 pounds. He has to leav... PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) -- Lots of people found out about the house party on Facebook -- including the cops. Fourteen people were busted, after police and Sarpy County, Neb., sheriff's deputies raided the bash. The Facebook posting promised a DJ, photographer and shuttle service. Authorities say the host even boasted he had a police radio scanner, so they would know if they were about to be raided. The hosts, 22-year-old Chri... TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- You don't want to mess with 84-year-old Ted Mazetier. He managed to fight-off two would-be carjackers. The Washington state senior got a black eye, but he still has his car. Mazetier tells police he stopped to help two men whose car had broken down. He says one of them punched him in the face and demanded his keys. Mazetier he kicked that man in the groin and the other in the belly. They ran, bu... CHICAGO (AP) -- John Huston and Tyler Fish have made it to the North Pole -- the hard way. The two are believed to be the first Americans to get to the top of the world entirely on their own. They reached the North Pole Saturday, according to a spokesman for Chicago-based Forward Expeditions. The group says the men skied, snowshoed and even swam over 54 days. The two men pulled sleds carrying more than 650 pounds of gear on t... APPENZELL, Switzerland (AP) -- Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton (state) of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($176) fine on violators. Only a scatt... PARIS (AP) -- Enough reading between the lines. European diplomats are saying it all in 140 characters. France is the latest country to turn to social networking site Twitter to tell the world what its diplomats are up to. Top British, Dutch and Portuguese officials are among those doing it, too. With a 140-character limit, the tweets are pithy, with none of the nuance or lengthy constructions common in diplomatic text... JERUSALEM (AP) -- The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday. Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel. Both Judaism and Islam conside... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Florida alligators are known to roam in springtime when they search for mates, but a Tampa woman was mystified to find one parked on her doorstep. Donaldson says 'gators someti... LONDON (AP) -- A medal awarded to a dog who sniffed out survivors in rubble of the Blitz was sold at auction in London on Friday for 24,250 pounds ($35,700.) The buyer at the sale at Spink auctioneers chose to remain anonymous. The sale price was 10,000 pounds higher than the estimate, and beat the previous record of 23,000 pounds for the Dickin Medal awarded to Simon, the ship's cat on HMS Amethyst. The Dickin Medal, ... HARRISON, Ark. (AP) -- A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice in the garden center. Someone with wings. A great horned owl flew inside of the Harrison store's garden center during a January ice storm and built a nest atop a pallet of merchandise. Over time, two baby owls poked their heads out. One fell to its death, but the other survived. Now, the mother is gone but the surviving youngs... PILLAGER, Minn. (AP) -- Incoming! An artillery shell landed on Rich and Kathy Nelson's property in Pillager, Minn. The more than 100-pound round flew over the couple's garage and damaged some trees earlier this month. Officials at nearby Camp Ripley say no one was hurt and the couple wasn't home. But a constructor's crew installing cabinets was taking a break at the time. Camp Ripley is changing its artillery range procedures... SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Many a family touring the Southwest has made a stop in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado -- all at the same time. Or have they? News reports this week that the site of the Four Corners monument was off by a whopping 2 1/2 miles drummed up some concern that anyone who ever got down on their hands and knees to touch four states at once had lived a bit of a lie. Not to worry, governm... NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors say a New York City dad and another man robbed homes while his girlfriend drove the getaway minivan with the kids in tow. The three pleaded not guilty Wednesday to burglary and weapon charges. The Queens district attorney's office says a witness saw the blue minivan outside his home Monday with a woman in the driver's seat and the two men going out his front door. His sister's ap... WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- Police say a man dressed liked a ninja used a sword in an attempt to rob a Weymouth dry cleaner. According to police, a convenience store clerk called police Monday after she noticed a man walking into the store wearing a ski mask and carrying a sword in a sheath on his belt. When the man noticed her, he pulled his mask off and asked if she was calling about him, police said. When she said she wa... PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to get them through the escapade, so Andes didn't expect su... TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) -- PETA is pecking away at NASCAR fans doing the chicken dance. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the Guinness records people to ignore an attempt to set a new record for the chicken dance. Some 125,000 fans were at the Talladega Superspeedway Sunday and many were shaking their tail feathers. KFC was the sponsor of the record attempt and PETA charges the Colonel is cruel to chicke... BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Just call Tim Clements at the nude dude ranch -- dude. He's a multi-million-dollar Florida lottery winner. He and co-owner David Jennings are opening the CJ Ranch north of Tampa, Fla. Clements says the farm property they've bought is rural enough to be a nudist resort. But weekend cowpokes without their britches could present legal problems. There's a nudity ban in Hernando County. Clements says if h... NEW YORK (AP) -- Parking spots in the Big Apple are tough to find. But a rooftop isn't among them. New York authorities report an SUV plunged out of a sixth-floor window in a Manhattan parking garage. It landed on a neighboring roof three stories below. The driver was taken to a hospital with what's described as non-life-threatening injuries. The man was parking the white Mercedes SUV when it crashed through the w... SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in Washington state say a couple were so determined to make off with merchandise without paying that a security guard who tried to stop them got punched. The loot that was so important to the couple was a package of disposable diapers -- $18 worth of diapers. Spokane County Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Reagan says a security guard tried to stop the pair as they walked out of a Safeway on Satur... FISHKILL, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say two men playing golf in suburban New York claim an unusual hazard is responsible for injuries they suffered. Police say the men became trapped under a golf cart at a country club when their vehicle flipped over. Police Sgt. Kevin Keefe says the two golfers and witnesses reported seeing a funnel cloud. He says, "What we had was a weird little wind event." National Weather Ser... NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York judge has given a woman permission to harvest her dead lover's sperm so she can still have his baby. Johnny Quintana was only 31 when he died Thursday of an apparent heart attack. He had wanted to have a second child with his fiancee, Gisela Marrero, but the only way A court... HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Hoboken police say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants and walked out with the money in his pocket. Diners described the bogus waiter as a spikey-haired 20-something wearing a dark blue or black button-down shirt, yellow tie and khaki pants. Police say he approached two women in their 20s dining at Hobson's Choice on Hudson Street around 7:20 p.m. on Thur... HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- It was a field trip of sorts for high school cheerleaders -- to a male strip club. Lori Epperson has resigned from her teaching position in southwest Ohio. A Butler Tech school district spokesman says Epperson took four girls to a strip club. Epperson told school officials she had gotten permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to Club Masque in Dayton. She says the... LONDON (AP) -- Hate pot holes? Well, officials in one small English village are liking theirs. Council members in Navestock look at pot holes as bargain speed bumps. The village is considering whether to let their roads go to pot. It would be a way of slowing down to out-of-town speeders. It's also cheaper than fixing the roads. City councilor Mike Parrish says the plan would help restore country lanes to their town.... SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Jurors in Southern California are deliberating the case of the stolen ketchup. Steve Rocco is charged with misdemeanor petty theft, after authorities say he took a bottle of ketchup from the cafeteria area at Chapman University. Rocco is an eccentric former school board trustee, who claims he was framed. He says he was just recycling the bottle. Rocco's lawyer says there was no crime because the ketc... BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) -- A stolen $3,000 Chihuahua puppy has been returned to a Long Island pet store with an apologetic note. Nassau County police say they haven't identified the man who took the 14-week-old dog back Tuesday to Worldwide Puppies & Kittens in Bellmore, just east of New York City. Store manager Christina Ingoglia (in-GOH'-glee-uh) says the man ran away after dropping off the pup in a shoe box. She says he... MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Four baby pythons escaped from a container aboard a passenger plane in Australia, leading to a search that forced the cancellation of two flights, the airline said Thursday. Twelve non-venemous Stimson pythons were being transported Tuesday on a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne in the plane's cargo area in a bag inside a plastic foam box with air holes. When the flight landed, it was ... LONDON (AP) -- A slice of cake from one of Britain's most controversial royal weddings was placed on sale at an antiques fair in Birmingham on Thursday. The cake is thought to be the only surviving item from the 1871 wedding of Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, Princess Louise, to the Marquis of Lorne. It went on sale for 145 pounds ($215) Thursday at the Antiques for Everyone fair in Birmingham. The seller is antiques... SAO PAULO (AP) -- A padded bra turns out to be a life-saver. But in this case, Brazilian police report the bra was stuffed with cash. According to authorities, a 58-year-old woman was shot in the chest during a bus holdup over the weekend. Police in the city of Salvador say the bullet was slowed by a wad of cash the woman had hidden in her bra. A police spokesman says the roll of money prevented the bullet from entering her he... SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Butt out! That's the message from some Oregon lawmakers. A bill in the Oregon Legislature would make pitching a cigarette butt a misdemeanor. Violators would face a possible fine or community service, like picking up cigarette butts. The Oregonian newspaper reports the idea for the bill is from activist Deb Schallert, who picked up hundreds of butts when she worked in state parks. Legislators s... NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities say a 5-year-old boy slipped onto a New York City subway alone and rode for 34 stops from the Bronx to the southern tip of Manhattan before anyone intercepted him. Samuel Sosa has been reunited with his mother, unharmed, after his hourlong transit odyssey Monday. Griselda Sosa says her son got away from her around 7:40 a.m. while she got coffee near an elevated station on the No. 1 line in ... RACINE, Wis. (AP) -- Police in Wisconsin say four people were injured after a drunk driver hit another drunk driver in Racine. Police say one drunk driver was traveling at a high rate of speed on Main Street when he missed a turn and went the wrong way on another street around 2:40 a.m Saturday. He hit two parked cars, rolled over and hit an oncoming car driven by another drunk driver. Lt. Mike Polzin says none of inju... PELHAM, N.H. (AP) -- Police in southern New Hampshire are searching for a burglar who says he's sorry. Pelham police say a resident who pulled into his driveway Friday afternoon caught a burglar coming out of the house with jewelry boxes and electronic items. The homeowner told police that when he approached the burglar, the man apologized, then put the stolen goods back. Police say the homeowner tried to de... PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of Good Friday Mass at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different -- a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad. Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming glitch was due to a required test of the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours. The test automatically tunes viewe... WHITE HALL, Ark. (AP) -- A deer somehow survived being hit by a car near Little Rock, but that was only the first part of what soon became a very rough day. On Tuesday morning in White Hall, the vehicle struck the animal on U.S. Highway 270. Assistant Police Chief Richard Wingard says the injured large doe then charged into the glass doors of a travel plaza, ran about 100 feet through a hallway and crashed through a se... DENVER (AP) -- One Colorado woman's love for tofu has been judged X-rated by state officials. Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her SUV's license plate. Her suggestion for the plate: "ILVTOFU." But the Division of Motor Vehicles blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane. ... JETERSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- A 13-year-old Virginia boy apparently loaded his family's pickup truck with food, clothes and his dog, hitched up a trailer with two horses in tow and drove nearly 1,300 miles to Texas, police said. The teen's parents found him safe Friday. Police are unsure why the boy ran away Wednesday morning from his Jetersville-area home. He apparently was well-prepared, even bringing extra propane tanks along. ...NEW YORK (AP) -- New York University officials weren't laughing when hundreds of people mistakenly received word that they'd been accepted to grad school on April Fools' Day. NYU says it sent out acceptance e-mails April 1 to 489 applicants to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Those applicants should have received rejection letters instead. The school sent out a second e-mail about an hour later t... STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Police say a Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden. Police spokesman Bo Paulsson says three young men beat up 41-year-old Hideki Kaji and robbed him of camera equipment worth around 20,000 kronor ($2,500) late Saturday. Paulsson says the pineapple-clad artist had been left alone with the equipment while the camera crew went for a br... BOULDER CREEK, Calif. (AP) -- Imagine having to tell the boss you've flipped his Ferrari. The California Highway Patrol says a 23-year-old woman took a curve too fast and flipped her boss' ultra-chic and ultra-expensive Italian sports car. Damage is estimated at $125,000. CHP Officer Elizabeth Addy says the woman wasn't hurt. But the boss isn't taking it well. Officer Addy says he's fuming. Authorities say a... ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- University of Maryland students will have to see a triple-X rated movie on their own. ...GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) -- The minor league Grand Prairie, Texas, AirHogs are planning a promotion honoring the Suleman octuplets of California. ...OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) -- The robbery scene ended with the student actor lying face down on the street -- as a police officer aimed a shotgun at him. ...MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) -- No, the aliens haven't landed in northern New Jersey. But a UFO hoax has landed a couple of guys in trouble with the law. ...CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Retiree Carl Smith is a golf ace -- in fact a double ace. He sunk consecutive holes-in-one at a Charleston, W.Va. golf course this week. ...BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- It's an extra-heavy traffic ticket -- for an extra-heavy load. Police in Bethlehem, Penn., have issued a traffic citation for more than $37,000. ...CINCINNATI (AP) -- Domino's is out nearly 11,000 free pizzas -- thanks to a Web promotion that wasn't supposed to be. ...MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- The sat cat is making news. A satellite news truck from New York's WCBS-TV had a stowaway aboard. ...BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A minor league team is offering a break to the jobless. ...LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Barbie is going to the Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs is teaming with Mattel to create the Kentucky Derby Barbie. ... |
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