An off-duty Elko County sheriff’s deputy was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after her husband, a fellow deputy, pulled her over.
Charlotte Moore, 36, a jail deputy, was off duty driving her 2004 Pontiac Grand Am on Saturday when she was pulled over by her husband, Elko County Sheriffs Deputy Mike [...]
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Husband pulls over his deputy wife twice
Grumpy groundhog disrupts museum tours
Tours at a 163-year-old home-turned-museum are sometimes disrupted by a grumpy groundhog. The furry critter’s digging has foiled some of the Saginaw Valley Historic Preservation Society’s attempts to refurbish the house on the city’s east side.
“We put in a walkway, and part of that collapsed due to Grumpy’s efforts,” preservationist Thomas Mudd told The Saginaw [...]
Man arrested for castrating ex’s cat
A man who was frustrated with his ex-girlfriend took his anger out on her cat by castrating it with a box cutter, Eugene police said. erry Caswell, 31, was arrested and charged with multiple counts stemming from the incident.
Caswell was angry at his ex-girlfriend for not coming to his house Friday night. So Caswell drugged [...]
Woman calls police about ‘fake’ cocaine
A woman was arrested after she called police to help “get her money back” after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she purchased.
Juanita Marie Jones, 53, called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine, according to police reports.
She told officers she broke the [...]
Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea
A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.
Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-meter (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso.
“We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water,” said [...]
Farmer attacks police with muck spreader
A German farmer angry with police for trying to confiscate his tractor wrecked three patrol cars and evaded capture for seven hours before an elite unit managed to arrest him, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The farmer, 53, was pulled over by police for driving his tractor without a license, despite several previous warnings.
The officers [...]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a baby..
A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman — but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.
Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring [...]