Archive for April, 2009

Coffee shop customers pick up other’s tabs

Coffee shop customers pick up other’s tabs

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 0 Comment

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Some customers at Starbucks shops around the Birmingham area have been getting an extra ingredient with their coffee: Kindness. Customers at shops in eastern Birmingham, Hoover and Vestavia Hills are paying it forward by anonymously picking up the tabs of others.
Filed in: Food and Drink
Woman forges bankruptcy seal to save electric

Woman forges bankruptcy seal to save electric

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 0 Comment

PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman made a fake federal bankruptcy court seal on a document in hopes a utility company wouldn’t cut off her electric service. Dorothy Hunt, 41, pleaded guilty to the counterfeiting charge Thursday and faces up to five years in prison when she’s sentenced Aug. [...]
Filed in: Business & Economy
Ohio teacher took students to strip club

Ohio teacher took students to strip club

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 1 Comment

HAMILTON, Ohio – A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill Solazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday.
Filed in: Education & Training
Kansas couple married for 67 years die hours apart

Kansas couple married for 67 years die hours apart

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

TROY, Kan. – Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family’s home in Troy. She was 93. Six hours later her 95-year-old husband, Lyle, died at a nursing [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships
Woman gets shot in head, but makes tea

Woman gets shot in head, but makes tea

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 0 Comment

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalized three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot [...]
Filed in: Food and Drink
Saudi man divorces wife by text message

Saudi man divorces wife by text message

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said on Thursday. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.
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Caveman thwarts store robber with step ladder

Caveman thwarts store robber with step ladder

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

ACWORTH, Ga. – Police said a would-be robber got more than he bargained for when he tried to rob a Quik Thrift store with a knife. A quick-thinking customer, known only as “Caveman,” grabbed a step ladder and hit the suspect at least once Monday. The customer chased the suspect from the [...]
Filed in: Business & Economy
Man jailed for urinating on woman during flight

Man jailed for urinating on woman during flight

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

HONOLULU – A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships
Man allegedly stabs brother over pork and beans

Man allegedly stabs brother over pork and beans

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

GILLIAM, La. – A sheriff’s deputy said a 54-year-old man stabbed his 63-year-old brother during an argument in their kitchen over a can of pork and beans. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said the suspect was booked Tuesday on one count of aggravated battery.
Filed in: Food and Drink
Nurse called out of surgery and laid off

Nurse called out of surgery and laid off

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 1 Comment

MADISON, Wis. – A nurse was called out of surgery so a manager could tell her she was being laid off. Dean Health said the surgery was minor and the patient wasn’t affected, but the manager who summoned the nurse from surgery violated medical protocol. Dean Health spokesman Paul Pitas said the [...]
Filed in: Health & Wellness
Polish Politician fumes over “gay” elephant in zoo

Polish Politician fumes over “gay” elephant in zoo

Posted by on April 13, 2009 · 0 Comment

WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a “gay” elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported Friday.
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Minn. man charged after playing ‘Rambo’ with bow

Minn. man charged after playing ‘Rambo’ with bow

Posted by on April 9, 2009 · 2 Comments

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – A man was charged with a felony after prosecutors alleged he tried to impress a woman by firing arrows at his neighbors’ homes with a powerful bow. Police found arrows in the siding of townhomes in the man’s complex on Saturday. Another arrow went through a patio door, [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships
Hammer time for cell phone used to run up $5K bill

Hammer time for cell phone used to run up $5K bill

Posted by on April 9, 2009 · 0 Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer. Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne sent or received about 20,000 text messages over about a month, and her parents’ phone plan didn’t [...]
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Duo accused of trying to steal restaurant grease

Duo accused of trying to steal restaurant grease

Posted by on April 9, 2009 · 0 Comment

WESTLAND, Mich. – Two Detroit-area men face larceny and trespassing charges after authorities say they tried to steal used restaurant grease. Westland police Sgt. Steve Borisch said 52-year-old Christopher Kind and 44-year-old Richard Tallent were arrested early Tuesday at a restaurant in the city [...]
Filed in: Food and Drink
A drive-thru shooting

A drive-thru shooting

Posted by on April 9, 2009 · 0 Comment

RAPID CITY, S.D. – A stop at a fast-food restaurant’s drive-through on Tuesday afternoon led to a trip to the hospital after a man accidentally shot himself in the leg with a pistol. The 24-year-old man was apparently trying to clear the weapon when it went off and hit him in the calf. Police [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships

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