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Bryce Moore: May 2009 ArchivesLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska on Friday threw out thousands of votes -- online votes for its new license plate -- after discovering that a minimalist approach initially won only because a humor Web site had urged people to choose the most boring design. Department of Motor Vehicles Director Beverly Neth announced Friday that a white, gold and black plate featuring the state bird and state flower -- the western meadowlark and gol... WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand mom made some online bids on toys before napping. Then her 3-year-old daughter took over and bought a bigger plaything than expected -- a huge earth-moving digger for a cool $12,300. Pipi Quinlan made the winning 20,000 New Zealand dollar ($12,300) bid on the Kobelco digger with a few mouse clicks at the auction site TradeMe while her parents slept, the Rodney Times newspaper reported... HARRISON, Mich. (AP) -- It's a different kind of long-distance relationship. A British couple has traveled nearly 4,000 miles from London to Michigan to adopt a kitten they found on a pet adoption Web site. Rose and Chris Rasmussen arrived Tuesday in Harrison to adopt Sparky the cat from the Clare County Animal Shelter. They say they wanted to experience the adventure of traveling to fetch the cat in person.... CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago police dog named Bear who is apparently a scaredy cat when it comes to thunder is back home after going AWOL during a storm. Authorities say Bear, who went missing several days ago, was found safe, but dirty, Sunday morning by a man walking to a hardware store. The man says he saw the dog at a cemetery and flagged down Officer Ann Jaros, who says Bear recognized her squad car and "jumped right... WEST HAVEN, Utah (AP) -- The principal of a Utah middle school has been asked to apologize for forcing a kilt-wearing student to change his clothes. Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart says Craig Jessop has been asked to extend an apology to 14-year-old student Gavin McFarland of Hooper after the school official's comments Wednesday. Gavin says he wore the kilt twice in the past two weeks to Rocky Mountain Jun... TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio mayor is asking residents to grab a mower and help him cut the grass in city parks. Budget cuts mean Toledo has hired fewer seasonal workers to keep its parks tidy, so Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-nur) was out with a mower doing the job Saturday at a park near his home. About 10 city administrative employees joined him, on their own time. Finkbeiner says he plans to spend the next sever... HIRAM, Ohio (AP) -- Someone has beheaded a statue of President James Garfield that was installed last week at an Ohio college. Hiram College spokesman Shawn Brown says the vandalism was discovered Friday morning, just a day after the sandstone statue was dedicated on the campus in Hiram, 30 miles southeast of Cleveland. Brown says the college is hoping the head will be recovered so the 95-year-old statue can be restore... WARREN, Mich. (AP) -- The fluff was flying when police in suburban Detroit zapped a large stuffed cat with a stun gun while responding to an emergency call about a cougar on the loose. A 911 caller reported seeing what looked like a cougar inside a piece of discarded drain pipe in Warren. Police zapped the cat with an electronic weapon on Monday, but they wound up with a bunch of fluff. The Detroit Free Press reports t... TOKYO (AP) -- The latest victim of Japan's recession is round, sweet and famous for being shockingly expensive. The first two Yubari melons of the season were auctioned Friday in northern Japan and fetched 500,000 yen ($5,200). Pricey? Certainly. But it's practically a steal if you consider last year's winning bid -- a record 2.5 million yen, or about $26,000. In 2007 they sold for 2 million yen. It appears the world's... CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser. Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man on Tuesday was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years.<... MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) -- A woman on Florida's Atlantic coast has sued the owner of a pet cemetery over her pet squirrel monkey's grave. Janet Steiner's 20-ounce monkey Mighty died of cancer in 1994, and she had him buried at Columbia Pet Memorial Gardens in Melbourne. But she says the cemetery's owner did not maintain the grounds well, and she moved his remains last year. Now she wants $500 -- the cost of the original burial and t... WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) -- A pilot who landed his four-seat airplane on an Illinois golf course so his 14-year-old son wouldn't be late for a tennis lesson has been sentenced to 18 months of court supervision. Lake Villa resident Robert Kadera pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. Lake County Associate Judge Charles Johnson also ordered the 66-year-old to pay a $500 fine and perform 60 hours of communi... MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) -- It's a long trip for a little dog. Chachi the Chihuahua is back home in Florida, after being found 700 miles away in southwest Ohio. Owner Robert Bartman says Chachi went missing 10 months ago. He has no idea how the dog ended up in Ohio. Last month, a couple found the collar-less pooch walking down their street in Middletown. Thanks to an embedded pet ID microchip, Bartman and Chachi have been reunit... UNITY, Maine (AP) -- Lots of college kids leave things behind in their dorms. But a student at Maine's Unity College faces legal trouble over something a lot more serious than a forgotten microwave or laundry bag. According to the Waldo County Sheriff's Office, 19-year-old Annica McGuirk left pot plants growing in her room. The illegal weed was discovered by security guards after the term ended last week. McGuirk is now charg... DETROIT (AP) -- Authorities say a rural postal carrier in suburban Detroit stole and sold stamps worth nearly $20,000 because he was behind on his mortgage. Postal agents confronted John Auito on April 30 outside his home in Macomb. He told agents that he typically sold the stamps at a 15 percent discount. Auito contacted people who had participated in stamp auctions on eBay. The 42-year-old Auito is charged with steal... LONDON (AP) -- Catherine Masters had always wanted to meet a member of Britain's royal family. But when she finally got the chance at age 109, she couldn't resist offering it a little advice. When Prince William made a surprise visit to Masters' nursing home near the upper crust city of Oxford on Friday, she gave him a fashion tip for his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Like all British centenarians, Masters received ... OSLO (AP) -- A rich Norwegian has been ordered to pay a 700,000 kroner ($109,000) fine after driving his car 400 yards (meters) while drunk. Police stopped the 49-year-old man in October near the airport for southern Norway's Kristiansand. Tests showed he had a blood alcohol content of .188 percent. Norway's maximum is .02 percent. The man pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday. Norwegian courts set d... NEW YORK (AP) -- When you're running a telephone scam, try not to call any U.S. senators. Schumer didn't just h... MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Just in time for Mother's Day, a mother duck has been reunited with two of her babies who fell into a storm drain in Manchester, N.H. The mother was crossing the street with 11 ducklings parading behind her Thursday when two of the little ones tumbled through a grate. Workers at a nearby hair salon called police, who sent a crew from the city water works department. While salon workers corralled the upset... ROME (AP) -- Remorseful and anonymous, an American couple has mailed back a chunk of ancient Rome to Italian authorities about 25 years after their Roman holiday. The tourists said in a letter tucked inside the package they mailed that they had picked up the fist-sized fragment of a slab of terracota near the Colosseum. But Rome's archaeological office said Thursday that the piece probably came from a bit farther away, the sprawl... ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Police in Greece say robbers near Athens have stolen everything including the kitchen sink, lifting a prefabricated home off its foundation and spiriting it away. Police say the owner went to visit his 750-square-foot (70-square meter) vacation home Monday in the coastal area of Rafina, 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) east of Athens, and discovered it was missing, along with its contents. Police said ... LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man was charged Tuesday with smuggling songbirds into the United States by hiding more than a dozen of them in an elaborate, custom-tailored pair of leggings during a flight from Vietnam to Los Angeles. Sony Dong, 46, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in March after an inspector spotted bird feathers and droppings on his socks and tail feathers peeking out from under his pants, prosecutors sa... AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A puppy that scampered away from her Texas home is all grown up now and mysteriously back after eight years. Owner Alison Murphy of Austin isn't sure where Dancer has been but says obedience school is the next stop for her newly recovered pet. KVUE-TV reports that the brown and white terrier mix was left last week at the Humane Society in New Braunfels, about 45 miles away. A musician found the do... WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A man has admitted living in a northeastern Pennsylvania family's attic for more than a week and occasionally going into the house when no one was there. Stanley Wayne Carter also admits stealing belongings while the homeowner and her children were out of the house in Plains Township, about 100 miles from Philadelphia. The 21-year-old from Trumann, Ark., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Luzerne Count... PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh-area bride and groom have taken plea deals in a hotel brawl with another wedding party the night they got married. David Wielechowski was told Tuesday that he'll enter a probation program for first-time offenders. He is a dentist, and his record will be expunged if he provides free dental care to needy children for six months. His wife couldn't enter the program because of a past drunken... (CBS) Faithful supporters of Father Alberto Cutié have expressed shock and disbelief after photos of the celebrity priest in a Spanish language magazine showed him kissing and fondling a woman on Miami Beach, CBS Station WFOR-TV reports. Tuesday the Archdiocese of Miami relieved Father Cutié of his duties at St. Francis de Sales parish on Miami Beach and at the Catholic radio station, Radio Peace and Radio Paz. "This is a di... BEIJING (AP) -- A rural Chinese county said Tuesday it had backed away from a rule urging its officials to smoke a certain amount of local cigarettes to boost tax income after it was reported in a newspaper. Officials in Gongan county in central Hubei province were encouraged to smoke over 230,000 packs of locally produced cigarettes a year, the Hubei-based Chutian Metropolis Daily reported Sunday. Departments whose of... SALZBURG, Austria (AP) -- An Austrian carpenter has found a macabre way of getting into the Guinness Book of Records: Over a 30-year career, he's built 707,335 coffins. Officials in Austria's Salzburg province say Herbert Weber has been honored for constructing more caskets than any other known carpenter. Weber says he started making coffins in May 1978 at Moser Holzindustrie, a woodworking company in Bischofshofen. >> Continue reading: Austrian gets world record for coffins BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding -- after police say he was found covered in chocolate syrup. Police say the 24-year-old Bethlehem resident was arrested early Friday after being found with silver spray paint and chocolate on his hands and clothes. They say that helped tie him to a nearby burglary in whic... NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) -- Ten-year-old Ryan Quinn might be able to give Tiger Woods some pointers. The youngster has sunk a hole-in-one while golfing with his dad. Ryan got his ace with a 164-yard shot at the Sagamore-Hampton Golf Club in New Hampshire. The club pro says no one under 20 has hit a hole-in-one there before. Now, Ryan has something for show-and-tell. Ryan tells the Portsmouth Herald he's taking the go... LEESBURG, Va. (AP) -- It's a real estate bargain -- just a buck for a farmhouse near Washington. Of course, there's a great big string attached. The new owner will have to move the house. The buck sale price doesn't include the property. The land is being developed as an assisted living facility in northern Virginia. The farmhouse dates from the 1880's and is more than 2,500 square feet. The developer says prospectiv... FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- An Alaska man shoved a police officer just so he could join his brother in jail. Thirty-five-year-old David Jacob Ginnis pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault on a police officer and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the full sentence suspended. Ginnis' brother was accused of getting into a fight on Monday night in Fairbanks and ... OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Even California's top law enforcement official isn't immune to petty crime. Attorney General Jerry Brown's office said Thursday that a thief made off last week with the two passenger-side wheels from his state-owned Toyota Camry hybrid as it was parked outside his Oakland home. Brown wrote about the crime on his Facebook page, saying "even though I am California's 'top cop,' 2 of my tires were s... CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) -- The hottest thing on the griddle at the Las Palmas restaurant these days isn't the food -- it's the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that a cook says she saw on the griddle. Restaurant manager Brenda Martinez says more than 100 people have flocked to the small town of Calexico on the California-Mexico border to gaze at the likeness of the Virgin Mary since it was discovered as the griddle was being cleaned.... NORTH EAST, Pa. (AP) -- Police in northwestern Pennsylvania say a burglar took some jellybeans from a home -- but nothing else. Police said Thursday that they are stumped by the burglary in North East Township. Sgt. Mark Zaleski says it remains unclear whether the suspect wanted only jellybeans. Or maybe that's all the thief had time to grab. Police say the burglar broke a front door window Friday night and ... QUARTZ HILL, Calif. (AP) -- Don't mess with the marching band. That's what California authorities are saying after a 17-year-old girl used her marching band baton to beat back two would-be muggers. Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Michael Rust says the Quartz Hill girl was walking to school April 24 when two men approached her from behind, tried to grab her coat and demanded money. Instead, one got a punc... |
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