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Posted 11/13/09 by InsayneJayne
NITRO, W.Va. (AP) -- A former home improvement store clerk in West Virginia has been charged with discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise to win a man's heart. Nitro police arrested 20-year-old Katie Lynn Smith Thursday on a fraudulent schemes charge. She had worked at Lowe's.
A criminal complaint in county court says a security video shows Smith selling the man a pressure washer worth sever. . .
Posted 11/13/09 by InsayneJayne
LA MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston.
The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered o. . .
Posted 11/13/09 by InsayneJayne
HAMILTON, Ohio — A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping.
Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season.
When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school says its code of conduct prohibits extreme and . . .
Posted 11/12/09 by InsayneJayne
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Posted 11/12/09 by InsayneJayne
Caesar, Circus Probst's ferocious five-year-old star, was being transported a Mercedes van when the vehicle was stolen.
The thief drove off, but abandoned the vehicle with the engine still running after crashing into a road sign. It was unclear whether the thief's sudden awareness of the animal in the back of the van had inspired him or her to abort the mission.
Police recovered the van in. . .
Posted 11/12/09 by InsayneJayne
LIMA, Peru (AP) — "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.
Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.
Cajamarca hospital surgeon Carlos Delgado told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's never seen anything like what. . .
Posted 11/12/09 by InsayneJayne
A party promoter has banned "metrosexuals" from a popular club night in a bid to stamp out violence.
The promoter, credited with bringing the Perth-based event Dorcia to Melbourne in September, warned punters they would not get in wearing trademark metrosexual attire - for example, low-cut V-neck T-shirts, skinny jeans and pointed white shoes.
Scott Mellor said the move was made to end a ". . .
Posted 11/12/09 by InsayneJayne
A hungry dog is being blamed turning on the heat under a chip pan which set fire to his owner's kitchen - causing £6,000 damage.
Paul Gregson believes his pet retriever Alfie was looking for food when he jumped up and nudged a switch on the family's range oven, reports the Daily Post.
Mr Gregson, 42, of Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd, said: "We're calling him Alfie the arsonist now."
Fortunate. . .
