LIBERTY, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man is accused of attempted bank robbery -- and if poor planning were a crime, he might be charged with that, too.Police say a man arrived at the Citizens and Northern Bank in the borough of Liberty on Thursday and waited in his car for about 20...
Conn. Student Suspended For Buying Candy
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut.Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from...
Sheriff: Woman Sat On Toilet For 2 Years
NESS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Deputies say a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years, and they're investigating whether she was mistreated.Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple says a man called his office last month to report that something was wrong with his...
Woman Faces Fine For Dyeing Poddle Pink
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A Boulder woman facing a $1,000 fine for dyeing her poodle pink has hired a lawyer to fight the charge in court.Joy Douglas says she dyed Cici, her white miniature poodle, to call attention to breast cancer. She says she used beet juice and Kool-Aid.She...
Fortune Cookies Help Cops Nab Suspect
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two fortune cookies helped Tulsa police make an arrest after a pair of break-ins Chinese restaurants. Terrence Middleton, 30, was booked Friday on charges of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary after police responded to a burglar alarm to find...
Police: Pa. Stylist Shoots Angry Client
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- A hairstylist shot an unhappy client after she complained about her haircut, police said.Lauren Newton, 28, was getting her hair cut Thursday at the home of Monique Reed when the two began to argue about the style, police said."She (Reed) went to the...
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case."The officers kind of put two and...
Moms Allegedly Brawl At Chuck E. Cheese
NATICK, Mass. (AP) -- A child's birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant was cut short after a fight broke out between two mothers. Natick police said the mom of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman's son was "hogging" an arcade...
Chicago Cop Accused Of Hitting Officers
FOREST PARK, Ill. (AP) -- A Chicago police officer being arrested for breaking tables at a suburban bar struck two police officers and spit blood at a paramedic at the police station, authorities said Monday.Bond was set at $10,000 for Richard T. Schmidt on felony charges of...
Penalty Phase Starts In Cannibalism Slay
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- A man convicted of murdering a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalism plot is mentally ill and was out of touch with reality, his attorney told jurors Monday as he urged them to spare his client from execution.Attorney Wayne Woodyard said Kevin Underwood, 28, led an...
Cook Accused Of Putting Hair In A Steak
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) -- A restaurant cook is out of a job and facing a felony charge after being accused of hiding hairs in a ribeye because a customer complained the first steak served to him was overcooked.Kevin Hansen, who dined at the steakhouse with friends and family Saturday, said...
Hiding From Cops In Cold River? Iceless
ROCKFORD, Tenn. (AP) -- A man found out that February in the East Tennessee mountains isn't the best time to try hiding from the law underwater. The Blount County Sheriff's Office says James Earl Jett fled an accident in Rockford after deputies found out the truck he was driving was...
Stabbing Alleged In Political Dispute
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Montgomery County authorities say a man stabbed his brother-in-law during an argument over who should get the Democratic nomination for president.What's more, Jose Ortiz, 28, who's charged with felony assault, is a registered Republican.District...
PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) -- Police said the same man tried to rob the same bank, wearing the same clothes and telling employees the same thing on Tuesday as he did two weeks ago. The outcome was not the same.Two weeks ago, the robber got away with cash from the Sovereign Bank branch. On his...
Smash Our Mailbox? I Don't Think So
HATLEY, Wis. (AP) -- Call this family the mailbox vigilantes. Fed up that their mailbox was smashed four times in two weeks, Greg Fisher and his son set up a middle-of-the-night stakeout to catch the vandals -- and it worked. Four teens were caught after a high speed chase."We only...
Police Probe Possible Spork Robbery
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage police have arrested a suspect in an armed robbery. Now they're trying to determine if the weapon involved was a spork -- a hybrid of a spoon and fork found at fast-food restaurants.Police said a suspect tried to grab a man's watch on Monday...
Ohio School Suspends Boy Over Mohawk
PARMA, Ohio (AP) -- A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of...
Grade Students Searched For Missing $5
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A class of third-grade students got a lesson in civil liberties when an envelope containing $5 disappeared from their teacher's desk.The students at Martin Luther King Elementary in Hopkinsville were asked to remove their shoes and socks during a search....
How Did You Guys Find Me So Fast?
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) -- Police arrested a suspect less than half an hour after a bank robbery in Port Townsend thanks to witnesses who pointed to the apartment building a block away where he fled.Police arrested the 40-year-old man in his apartment building Monday and recovered money...
That'll Teach Him To Tinkle Outside
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- An apparently drunk man picked the wrong place to tinkle. Appleton police arrested the man Friday afternoon after he reportedly relieved himself in front of the police department.The 40-year-old was cited for public urination and jailed on a probation...
Man Clings To Girlfriend's Car In Fight
HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. (AP) -- A man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than a mile on a busy road, hitting several other cars, police said. Both were hurt in the brawl Saturday and were arrested, police Sgt. Manfredo Figueroa...
I'm A Cop Kids. Uh, Not Really
ECONOMY, Pa. (AP) -- A school bus driver in Beaver County said he told students he was an undercover officer so they wouldn't misbehave on the bus. They didn't.But the real police said what William Dunn, 59, did was wrong and have charged him with impersonating a public servant....
Uh, Uh. Where Did I Get This Jacket?
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- He must have really liked the jacket. An 18-year-old man has been charged with stealing clothing from a department store after police said he showed up for questioning wearing a jacket taken months earlier.Felipe M. Medina, of Sheboygan, was charged Thursday with a...
Get Out Of The Fire Truck Miss. Please
MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) -- A woman faces several charges after police said she climbed into a ladder fire truck at a Merrimack fire station and refused to get out.Police said Marque Buckley, 20, got into the fire truck after her car broke down outside the Reeds Ferry Fire Station Wednesday...
Say. Didn't We Arrest You Awhile Ago?
MOSCOW, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a Lackawanna County man suspected of drunken driving was released in custody of his sister, who took his keys. But four hours later police got another call. This time it was to a Covington Township intersection where authorities say the man crashed his car into a...
Officials: Bank Goof Led To Loss Of Cash
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man was charged with withdrawing $2 million from an account after a bank confused him with a man who has the same name.Benjamin Lovell was arraigned Tuesday on grand larceny charges. The 48-year-old salesman said he tried to tell officials at Commerce Bank in...
He's Dancin' To The Jailhouse Rock
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- This is one Elvis impersonator who's definitely singing the blues after Tampa police charged him with fraud. Authorities say Elvis tribute artist Frederick Denmark told people his house had burned so they would organize a benefit concert.The concert, held at...
Fake $100 Bill Rips Off Girl Scouts
WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) -- A pair of con artists ripped off a Girl Scout group when they exchanged a fake $100 bill for cookies, police said.The unknown couple handed over the bill Friday night at a supermarket, telling the girls it had been washed when asked about why it looked so...
Police Say Toilet Flush With Cocaine
CAMERON, Texas (AP) -- Flushed, but not forgotten. Cameron police say a toilet confiscated in a drug investigation yielded bags of cocaine. Frank Earl Evans, 32, of Cameron, was charged with tampering with physical evidence. Evans also faces escape causing bodily injury charges, after an officer...
NORTHGLENN, Colo. (AP) -- Undercover police officers posing as flower deliverymen on Valentine' Day arrested 23 people with outstanding warrants.The Northglenn officers used a van with a sign saying "Flower Delivery" and knocked on doors bearing a long-stem rose box to net...
