OMAHA, Neb. – Police have arrested a man suspected of leaving greasy, graphic imprints on the windows of stores, churches and schools in a small Nebraska town. A 35-year-old man was caught in the act by police early Wednesday morning, Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott said Friday. The man hasn’t been charged yet, but authorities [...]
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Funeral home parties with replica Elvis casket
BARTONVILLE, Ill. – The owners of Endsley Funeral Home in Bartonville wanted to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the business by putting a little “fun” into “funeral.” So, for their open house Saturday, they put a replica of Elvis Presley’s 650-pound casket on display and hired Elvis impersonator Dave Stovall to dance around it and [...]
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 [...]
Police nab bogus martial arts masters
A dozen Chinese teenagers have been caught in a failed plot to sneak into Canada by masquerading as kung fu masters from the famous Shaolin Temple, state media reported Friday.
The 12 had no martial arts experience but joined a team of genuine kung fu performers from a school in Henan province, also home to the [...]
Everything’s made of ice at Dubai bar
Outside it was a sticky 111 degrees, but Ali Hamdan was shivering under two parkas as he sipped hot chocolate, surrounded by tables and chairs made of ice.
Chillout, its owners say, is the Middle East’s first ice lounge — the latest venture in this desert Gulf emirate, which has been transformed by a mania for [...]
Big Ben’s bongs fall silent for repairs
Big Ben’s bongs fell silent Saturday as workers rappelled down Parliament’s iconic clock tower, beginning a month of maintenance work on the clock and its world-famous bell.
Time briefly stood still as the clock’s hands were frozen shortly after 8 a.m. They then were wound to 12 o’clock as a team of specialist “industrial rope-access technicians” [...]
Author tries to interest leader in arts, books
Best-selling Canadian author Yann Martel, worried about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apparent lack of interest in the arts, sent him a book on Monday and said he would continue doing so once a fortnight.
Martel, who wrote the novel “Life of Pi,” was upset that Harper had paid no attention during a recent parliamentary ceremony to [...]