The chicken toss has been declared off limits at Kansas State. For years, Kansas State students have smuggled live chickens into basketball games against Kansas, then thrown them onto the court and behind the opposing bench before tip-off — mocking their rival’s Jayhawk mascot.
But an animal rights group objected to the mistreatment of chickens, and [...]
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Kansas State condemns chicken toss
UFO science key to halting climate change
A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
“I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation … that could be a [...]
Alleged robber discovers he was robbed
A man charged with robbing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot, but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said.
Joseph Thomas Mulkerin, 46, was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel Tuesday and charged with common law robbery of $2,179 from the Wachovia branch on Green Street, said [...]
Dodgers pitcher could be a billionaire
Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Los Angeles Dodgers, could become baseball’s first billionaire player.
It has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts.
White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 three years ago to buy 50 acres of [...]
Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia’s tropical rainforests.
The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo [...]
Seniors steaming about bingo shutdown
Violet Fojut, 88, isn’t happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won’t be held any more.
“It was always packed. Every table was always packed,” he said Tuesday after learning that police had told officials of Boston Store, in which the [...]
Alleged burglar gets shot by grandfather
A man was shot in the hand by his own grandfather when he broke into the older man’s home to steal beer and liquor, police said.
Darin D’Marcus Thompson, 18, of Camp Hill, was charged Wednesday with breaking into the home early Tuesday morning. Police said the grandfather, Herbert Miller, did not realize he had shot [...]