BOSTON (Wireless Flash) -- Nice husbands can get some action on Mother's Day.{image_1590}Instead of buying their...
Get A Hoe! It's World Naked Gardening Day
SAN DIEGO (TNA) – Saturday is a good day to grab your hoe, strip naked and spill some seed in your garden.It’s not what you think: May 3 just happens to be World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD), a time when gardeners are invited to get down and...
Larin Lane Hopes To Be A Victim
LOS ANGELE S (TNA) – Like many women who move to Los Angeles, Larin Lane has a dream. But her dream is special: She wants to be a victim.It’s not as harsh as it sounds. Although she might list “adult entertainer” on her passport, Lane sees her future as an actress,...
Conan O'Brien Stalker Pleads Guilty
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Roman Catholic priest accused of stalking NBC talk-show host Conan O'Brien has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.The Rev. David Ajemian (A-Gee-MEE-ON) admitted to the offense -- sending letters and DVDs to O'Brien's home and business.Ajemian was...
Fowl Play Prompts Unusual Court Order
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- A court has issued what could be at least a local first: an order of protection for a duck.A Suffolk County judge approved the measure Thursday, telling a man accused of shooting a family's pet duck to stay away from the bird and her owners.Suffolk...
Mo. Asked To Ban 'Cage Fighting' By Kids
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Legislators are seeking to ban mixed martial arts competitions -- sometimes called "cage fighting" -- among children in Missouri, which appears to be the only state where youth matches are allowed.The sport is a blend of martial arts styles made popular by...
Surprised Shoppers Get Jury Summonses
LIMA, Ohio (AP) -- A judge who ran out of prospective jurors in a child rape trial sent sheriff's deputies to a Wal-Mart, a supermarket and a mall to issue jury summonses to surprised shoppers.Three deputies questioned mall walkers and shoppers whether they were Allen County residents...
New Videos Further Roil S.C. Patrol
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A state trooper is seen kicking a suspect in the head multiple times after a high-speed interstate chase in the latest in a string of alarming Highway Patrol videos.In two other videos, a trooper punches a suspect several times in the face after a pursuit and a...
Man Trades Ford Escort For Craigslist Escort
SAN DIEGO (TNA) – Some guys trade money for sex. Others trade flowers and expensive dinners. No male, however, has ever EVER traded a beat-up ’91 Ford Escort. Right?Wrong! Meet “Kyle,” a 38-year-old drinker with a cash-flow problem. In July 2007, the...
Students Apparently Copied Honor Code
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school's code -- without proper attribution.The student currently in charge...
Vt. Panel Hears Air Breast-Feeding Case
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont Human Rights Commission ruled there are grounds to believe Freedom Airlines discriminated against a woman ordered off a plane after refusing to cover up while breast-feeding her child.The full commission heard the case Thursday. The proceedings were not...
Student's Project Sparks NY Subway Scare
NEW YORK (AP) -- A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack.Gregory Kats, 29, said the device was just a model of an elevator's inner workings. But it frightened riders on a B...
Man Writes Check On 2-Ply Toilet Paper
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) -- An upstate New York man embroiled in a dispute over his water bill is not being allowed to pay off his debt with a check written on toilet paper. Ron Borgna tried to settle his $2,509.66 bill with a check written on floral print, two-ply toilet paper...
Pa. Judge Sentences 3 To Learn English
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get...
Lawsuit Accuses Yale Of False Statements
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A prestigious South Korean university that came under fire for hiring a professor who lied about her credentials is suing Yale, saying the American university wrongly confirmed the woman earned a degree.Dongguk University is seeking at least $50 million in...
Judge Sentences Man 10 Days Per Word
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A man has talked himself into nearly two years in jail after threatening to kill a Shelby County criminal court judge. Joshua Beadle has been held in contempt and sentenced to 10 days per word after a judge ordered him to stop the threatening comments.Judge Lee...
Man Leaves Notes Seeking Women's Undies
BETHANY, Okla. (AP) -- Police in Bethany are looking for what Chief Neal Troutman calls a "sick individual" who's leaving notes asking for women to give him their underwear.Troutman said the person is knocking on doors and leaving notes with specific instructions asking for...
Penalty For Pharmacist's Refusal Upheld
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A state appeals court upheld sanctions Tuesday against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn't transfer her prescription elsewhere.The 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled the punishment the state Pharmacy Examining Board...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- The owner of Jude's Barbershops will continue offering haircuts and shaves to his customers, but no more free beer.The Michigan attorney general's office says Thomas Martin's 11 shops in the Grand Rapids area may not hand out a brew with each cut...
Statehouses Often Look Like Frat Houses
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as much as it stung: Spitzer's got to be the only guy in Albany who PAYS for sex.It is an open secret...
Sisters: EBay Pulled Corn Flake Auction
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two sisters from Virginia who are selling a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois on eBay say the online auction Web site canceled their listing.
Runaway Bride's Former Groom Now Married
ATLANTA (AP) -- The man who was once engaged to the runaway bride has gotten married -- to another woman.John Mason, 35, married Shelley Martin, 34, in a quiet ceremony Saturday at his parents' home in Duluth, his father, Claude Mason, told People magazine for a story posted Tuesday...
NYC Businessman Claims Lap Dance Injury
NEW YORK (AP) -- A businessman claims in a lawsuit that he was injured when a stripper giving him a lap dance swiveled and smacked him in the face with the heel of her shoe.Stephen Chang, a securities trader, said in court papers filed Friday that he was at the Hot Lap Dance Club near...
Court Will Examine Profanity Rules
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has stepped into a legal fight between the television networks and the Federal Communications Commission over the use of curse words on the airwaves.The case is the first major look at broadcast indecency by the court in 30 years. It concerns an FCC...
Spitzer Call Girl Leaves NYC Apartment
NEW YORK (AP) -- The call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has left her Manhattan apartment -- and may not be coming back.A spokesman for the building where Ashley Dupre (du-PRAY') has been living declined to divulge Friday what, if anything, he knows about...
Ala. Building Can't Shake Swastika Shape
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) -- From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It's one big swastika.Prompted by complaints from a Jewish activist, the agency that owns the...
Insults And Tender Sensibilities
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the presidential campaign were kindergarten, rude people could be sent for a time-out or made to write "hope and change" on the blackboard until they are nice.In kindergarten, you're not allowed to call anyone a monster or make fun of someone's...
Judge Backs Town's Animal Sacrifice Ban
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Santeria priest who challenged an animal slaughter ban on the grounds it interfered with his right to perform religious sacrifices in his home.Jose Merced sued the city of Euless in late 2006 after city officials denied...
Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech
NEW YORK (AP) -- A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.But a lawyer for the Burlington, Conn., school told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on...
N.J. Student Penny-Protesters Pardoned
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Twenty-nine New Jersey students punished with two-day detentions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon.Readington, N.J., school Superintendent Jorden Schiff informed parents in an e-mail Sunday that he has rescinded...
