4 December 2008, 12:07 am
Reuters - A rubbish collector in central England could have a very good Christmas if he can solve one of the biggest jigsaw puzzles going -- 10,000 pounds-worth of torn up bank notes.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 10:38 pm
Reuters - Politicians in Australia's most populous state could be breath-tested for alcohol before voting on laws after a series of late-night incidents that have embarrassed the centre-left government.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 10:33 pm
Reuters - China has told artists on its annual top-rating TV gala show on Chinese New Year's Eve not to lip-synch their songs, local media reported on Thursday, a controversy that overshadowed the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 10:13 pm
Reuters - As Australia fights to head off recession, the national government on Thursday urged workers to take a holiday to help stimulate the economy.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 6:37 pm
AP - The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 6:26 pm
AP - A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop's kitchen.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 6:11 pm
AP - Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids at the House of Correction and Criminal Justice Facility.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 6:11 pm
AP - Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 6:11 pm
AP - A man using a candy cane lawn ornament fended off a knife-wielding neighbor who had been attacking holiday guests at a Sacramento home. Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong said the man used the two-foot-tall plastic ornament to subdue the attacker until officers arrived.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 2:03 pm
AP - A northern Ohio artist known for envelope-pushing holiday displays is back with Santa Claus in a wheelchair being pushed down stairs by a crazed tree.... Read More »
3 December 2008, 2:01 pm
AP - Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston's famous Four Corners of Law at Meeting and B... Read More »
3 December 2008, 12:28 pm
AP - A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws instead of the usual one the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever seen in his 14 years catching the creatu... Read More »
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