Archive for March, 2007
Maine couple to mark 80th anniversary
Kathleen Tarbell “fell head over my stomach” for her husband Waldo when they met at a dance. They married in 1927, during Calvin Coolidge’s presidency. This weekend, they’ll celebrate their 80th anniversary.
Waldo is 101 and Kathleen will turn 100 in June. The anniversary party [...]
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Man in hot water over shampoo camera
A man landed in hot water after police say he hid a tiny camera in a shampoo bottle to watch two of his female roommates as they took showers.
A male roommate, curious why the shampoo wasn’t moved for some time, found wires protruding from the back of the bottle, then called police, authorities [...]
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Arkansas students’ balloon lands in N.C.
Twenty-two years ago, Mahlon Webb Jr. wrote a note, put it in a bottle and tossed it into the ocean at a North Carolina Beach. Five years ago, he got a call from a woman on Grand Cayman Island saying she’d found the bottle.
Last week, Webb made the same type of call, this time to an Arkansas school [...]
Filed in: Education & Training
Officials buy horns to counter coyotes
City officials have purchased 1,000 hand-held boat horns to help residents scare off coyotes. Code compliance manager Dirk Voss said this week he bought the horns early last month after residents complained that coyotes were killing their pets.
“The taxpayers don’t want us to say, ‘It’s [...]
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Trio suspected of staging panty raid
Police were trying to pick up the trail of three people suspected of staging a panty raid this week at a Victoria’s Secret in Newport Center Mall. The trio — two men and a woman — were able to thwart security sensors at the store because they used shopping bags lined with aluminum [...]
Filed in: Business & Economy, Crafts
No money for stamps? Advertiser happy to help
For Dutch consumers who wish to save 44 euro cents ($0.59) on posting a letter, there is a solution: an advertisement on the back of the envelope.
Dutch advertising company gratis-post.nl will begin offering consumers a pack of five envelopes with free stamps next month that they can use for standard [...]
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Scandal brews over China tea-for-urine samples
A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a [...]
Filed in: Health & Wellness
Opera star wins “underwear throwing” case
New Zealand opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who refused to perform with an Australian singer because his female fans threw underwear at him, on Wednesday won a lawsuit against her for pulling out of the concert.
The New Zealand soprano pulled out of a series of concerts with Australian rock singer John [...]
Filed in: Entertainment
Couple gets probation for “educational” sex
A Rhode Island woman who routinely had sex with her boyfriend in front of her 9-year-old daughter to teach her about sex was sentenced to three years’ probation, authorities said Tuesday.
Rebecca Arnold, 37, and David Prata, 33, who received the same sentence this week, told investigators they [...]
Filed in: Education & Training
Automakers say: Look at cars not women
South Korean carmakers plan to cut down on the number of scantily clad models at the Seoul Motor Show hoping people will look at the cars instead.
The show, which starts in April, usually attracts thousands of camera-wielding men snapping pictures of young women models in revealing costumes whose images [...]
Filed in: Crafts
New Jersey thieves snatch $12,000 in underwear
Three brazen New Jersey shoplifters made off with nearly $12,000 (6,100 pounds) in women’s underwear by stuffing the goods into bags designed to foil anti-theft equipment at a Victoria’s Secret store while the shop was open for business, police said.
Surveillance cameras captured two men [...]
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Spanish order bans women from carrying shrine
A religious order in Spain has banned two women from carrying shrines during Easter week to prevent any “uncomfortable” brush with the opposite sex under cover of the massive floats.
In towns and cities across Spain each Easter, dozens of people dressed in religious tunics and pointed wizard-like [...]
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Belgians hold mass “wedding” to shame racist couples
Hundreds of Belgians renewed wedding vows on Wednesday in a mass protest against racism in a town where three couples had refused to be married by a black registrar.
“We are ashamed that some people in Sint-Niklaas refused to be married by a black registrar … It’s not in keeping with [...]
Filed in: General
South Africa police seize cars housing vicious rats
South African police said on Thursday they had impounded 11 old cars after receiving complaints that giant rats nesting in the vehicles were attacking pedestrians.
“We’ve had to deal with vicious dogs before but not with rats,” Wayne Minnaar, chief superintendent of the Johannesburg [...]
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Malaysian DVD pirates want sniffer dogs dead
Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth about $3 million (1.5 million pounds), media and officials said on Thursday.
Lucky and Flo, two female black Labradors deployed by Malaysian authorities in their crackdown [...]
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