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KMOV Blogger: May 2009 ArchivesPORT HURON, Mich. (AP) -- Squirrel. Thief. Patriot. A brazen squirrel has been grabbing small American flags placed in a Port Huron, Mich., cemetery and carrying them up to its nest, which now looks as if it's bedecked in bunting. Every Memorial Day, volunteers place the flags next to the graves of nearly 1,000 veterans buried at Mount Hope Cemetery about 55 miles northeast of Detroit. The flags were undisturbed during a Mass h... PHILOMATH, Ore. (AP) -- A cougar picked the wrong little dogs for a fight. ...ALOHA, Ore. (AP) -- Most people define an emergency as a fire or a robbery. Not getting your order correct at a fast-food restaurant doesn't qualify. ...WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Polly wants a passport, and will steal to get it. ...FREMONT, Ohio (AP) -- Inmates in a northern Ohio jail are growing their own. Food, that is. They've planted a vegetable garden. ...ANDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Remember Borat in that mankini? It's probably a vision you'd rather not dredge up. ...COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- There seems to be an unending supply of dumb criminals. ...FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -- When a robber has a gun in his waistband, you might believe anything he says. ...ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- An intruder smashed through the window of an empty business in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Cops showed up in time to catch the culprit looking like a deer caught in the headlights. It was a deer caught in the glaring lights of two officers. But, when one of the cops opened the door, the deer ran off. That deer caused about $800 in damage when it crashed through the large glass window. The officers' report says simpl... MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- This kid in Medford, Oregon, either will learn from his mistake or end up on some list of the world's dumbest criminals. ...MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) -- Do you have to explain that "bite me" is only a figure of speech? ...PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Where do you go after telling cops in frantic 9-1-1 calls you'd been abducted and stuffed in the trunk of a car? ...SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- What does a bottle of ketchup cost? Maybe $2? ...NEENAH, Wis. (AP) -- Maybe the stock market is so easy, even a fifth-grader can make money at it. Well, hypothetical money. ...BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A guy arrested for slashing the tires of nearly 50 cars in Boulder, Colorado has an assortment of reasons for the spree: his mother, radiation and the braces he wore when he was a kid. ...LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Here's how to call attention to yourself while robbing a convenience store: put an empty cardboard beer carton on your head. ...DETROIT (AP) -- For anyone who's said "the IRS stinks," it was true in Detroit. It smelled like a toilet. ...HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) -- A suburban Chicago home made famous in 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is up for sale for $2.3 million. The 5,300-square-foot Highland Park house was the fictional home of Ferris Bueller's friend, Cameron Frye, played by actor Alan Ruck. In the movie, Frye accidentally sends his father's Ferrari through one of the house's glass walls and into the woods outside. Sudler Sotheby's Interna... AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- The city doesn't want your help when it comes to potholes. An elderly man in Akron, Ohio, says he thought he was helping when he chipped away loose material around a pothole near his house. ...CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) -- Guys in a Pennsylvania town had a good excuse yesterday for walking around in women's shoes. ...LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Police in Nebraska are looking a man who stole cigarettes while disguising himself with a beer carton on his head. Lincoln police Capt. Bob Kawamoto says the man walked into a Kwik Shop convenience store before dawn Monday wearing an empty Bud Light box on his head as a mask. Kawamoto says the man also had wrapped something around one of his hands, suggesting he was armed. But the man never showed... HOLDEN, Maine (AP) -- Calling anyone with an inner-wolf, who can howl like one. Seriously. ...NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) -- A quick-thinking 6-year-old grabbed the wheel of his family's pickup truck when his father passed out. ...JOHNSTOWN, New York (AP) -- Keith O'Dell Jr. probably could make a fortune as a pool hustler. ...WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) -- Don't expect George W. Bush to snap up this post-presidential offer. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Nobody said the National Register of Historic Places had to be classy. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Sean Penn isn't as publicly volatile as he used to be, but he may not have mellowed entirely. BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- If you've always hankered for a nice chunk of summer real estate in the tony Hamptons near New York City, this is your chance. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- You could excuse a visitor to the Connecticut state Capitol Thursday for thinking some of the legislators were a little odd. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- How do you slap a label on a fish? LAKEVIEW, Mich. (AP) -- He made an inferno out of an anthill -- and he'll have to pay for it. ...PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities at a Pittsburgh have not just one, but two mysteries to solve. ...BATESVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Horse tranquilizers are powerful -- strong enough to, well, put a horse to sleep. ...SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It's a slime factor that would put the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards to shame. ...PITTSBURGH (AP) -- This is one about a real snake in the class. But it isn't as bad as it was first made out to be. ...WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- What would you do if you found out your bank mistakenly put more than $6 million into your account? ...GRANVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- It's a bitter dispute over sweet confections. Brothers from an Ohio candy-making family are opening shops 100 feet apart from each other. ...COPENHAGEN (AP) -- You'd think it'd be something that'd be covered in Journalism 101: fish don't have hair, and because of that, they don't need to be around shampoo. Apparently a Danish TV reporter missed that point -- and has been convicted of animal cruelty for killing a dozen fish with shampoo. ...MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Some people just don't like snakes. And in Memphis, Tennessee, a couple of guys who brought their snake to a hair salon learned the hard way that at least one guy doesn't care all that much for people who own them, either. ...PHOENIX (AP) -- So, what was up over the skies of Arizona the other day? So many people were asking that the Feds had to come up with an answer. ...BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) -- Water is supposed to help put out fires -- not cause them. But officials in Washington state are blaming water for starting a fire that charred the back of a home. ...DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. AP) -- Cops are there to help, right? Even when you need help because your drug deal goes bad. ...WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Is that a banana under your shirt or do you just want to rob me? A 17-year-old tried to hold-up an Internet cafe in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a banana. DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- This is what can happen when, number one, you take super care of your comic books and, number two, your parents don't toss them in the trash. ... |
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