Woman May Move After Car Hits Home Again
ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- In real estate, it's all about location, location, location. That's turning out to be not such a good thing for Jodi Courtaway's duplex in Alton, Ill. For the second time in less than a year, a vehicle has slammed into the bedroom of Courtaway's 7-year-old son...
Man Using GPS Drives Into Path Of Train
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. (AP) -- A computer consultant apparently put too much faith in the GPS technology in his rental car: It didn't tell him to look both ways before driving onto tracks as a train barreled toward him.The driver had turned right, as the global positioning system...
Seniors Protest Funeral Home Near Center
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Opening a funeral home across the street from a senior center would be too close for comfort, some of the town's older residents say. James Asper and Mary Hansen, partners in Aspen Funeral Home LLC, hope to lease a 6,000-square-foot building across the street...
$5M Lawsuit: My Commercial Looks Lewd
NEW YORK (AP) -- A model who says she has worked hard to maintain a wholesome image has filed a $5 million lawsuit complaining that a jewelry company's video advertisement in which she writhes and moans looks pornographic.The commercial, seen on the Internet in a clip entitled...
Accused Beauty Queen Freed On Bond
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A former Miss Pima County and current University of Arizona law school student has been freed on bond and authorities are searching for an ex-boyfriend accused of helping her kidnap and assault another former boyfriend.
Attorney Installs Shark Tank In Office
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- It started out as a joke -- a lawyer putting a shark tank in his office. "I said, 'What would it take to put a shark in a lawyer's office?'", and it kind of took off from there, said attorney Christopher Gillette.On Monday, a crane hoisted a...
Study: Drivers On Cells Clogging Traffic
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study.
Whites More Likely To Get ER Narcotics
CHICAGO (AP) -- Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and...
Nude Couple Grapple Over Dog Near Shower
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) -- A 25-year-old woman was arrested for investigation of second-degree assault for getting into an argument with her boyfriend over whether his dog should be in the bathroom while the couple were taking a shower together.A police report said the man, 26, wanted his...
La. Village Drops 666 From Its Number
REEVES, La. (AP) -- It's taken 40 years, but this southwest Louisiana village no longer bears the mark of the beast.Beginning this month, residents and businesses can change the first three digits of their phone numbers from 666 -- depicted in the Bible as the mark of the beast -- to...
W.Va. Cop Says Woman Wiped Nose on Him
DUNBAR, W.Va. (AP) -- Sometimes you need a police officer; sometimes you need a tissue. Confuse the two, and it could cost you.A woman in this Charleston suburb was charged with battery on a police officer after the officer said she wiped her nose on the back of his shirt.Cpl. S.E....
Wesley Snipes Trial Stays In Ocala, Fla.
OCALA, Fla. (AP) -- Wesley Snipes' federal tax-evasion trial will go forward next month in this central Florida city, despite arguments by the actor's lawyers.
Police Academy Class Slogan: Cause PTSD
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder.Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a...
Judge Orders Louis Farrakhan To Appear
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan to appear in court to explain why payments to his son are not considered income.A Gary couple are seeking to collect $350,000 from Farrakhan's 48-year-old son, who lost a lawsuit after...
School Suspends Girl For Booze-Candy
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) -- A school district suspended a 12-year-old for having a piece of chocolate candy filled with a half-ounce of booze.The unidentified seventh-grader was sent home from Alta Loma Junior High School three days before the winter break after a friend gave her a...
Problem Teacher List Made Public
A confidential, nationwide list of 24,500 teachers who have been punished for a wide array of offenses was made available to the public Friday by a Florida newspaper.The Sarasota Herald-Tribune created a searchable database of the teachers' names after waiting for years to gain access...
Inmate Says He Needs Thor's Hammer, Drum
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An inmate is suing the Utah Department of Corrections for denying him his right to practice an ancient Nordic religion while behind bars.Michael Polk is serving time for aggravated assault and robbery. He filed a lawsuit against corrections officials in federal...
Trouble Follows Philly TV Anchorwoman
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Anchor Behaving Badly show seems to be in reruns.Philadelphia newscaster Alycia Lane -- who cried to Dr. Phil about her divorce and e-mailed bikini shots of herself to a married NFL sportscaster -- is now charged with assaulting a New York police...
Teens Suspended Over Facebook `Parody'
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Three teenagers have sued school officials over lengthy suspensions they received for setting up a Facebook page that identifies a teacher as a pedophile.The entry on the social networking site included the face and last name of the teacher and referred to him as a...
Student Told To Cover Up Lesbian T-Shirt
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A lesbian high school student says she was asked by a teacher to cover up a lesbian-themed T-shirt or face suspension, and now a civil liberties group has taken up her cause.Bethany Laccone, 17, said she was asked to cloak a logo of two interlocked female symbols...
Prison Staff Helps Man, 86, Clean Yard
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) -- An 86-year-old man jailed for a week for not mowing high grass or cleaning trash from his yard has gotten help from prison staff hoping to keep him from going to the slammer again.John Allen was sent to prison after being convicted of violating a Union Township law...
Priest Pleads Not Guilty In Nude Jogging
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) -- A Catholic priest charged with indecent exposure after jogging naked in the pre-dawn darkness has pleaded not guilty and asked for a jury trial.The Rev. Robert Whipkey was arrested June 22 in Frederick after an officer saw him walking on a street naked at 4:35 a.m....
Man, 60, Sues Boy, 8, Over Ski Collision
VAIL, Colo. (AP) -- A 60-year-old man is taking an 8-year-old boy and his dad to court, claiming the boy caused a ski-slope collision that left the older man with a shoulder injury.David J. Pfahler of Allentown, Pa., sued in federal court in Denver, claiming Scott Swimm, then 7, was...
Fla. Officer Shocks Woman Yelling At Her
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A police officer used a stun gun to subdue a woman who yelled at her in a crowded electronics store, and prosecutors are reviewing whether to pursue charges against the customer.While Elizabeth Beeland was trying to purchase a CD player at a Best Buy on Nov....
Bus Driver Allegedly Asks Decoy For Sex
DETROIT (AP) -- A Detroit school bus driver taking children to class is accused of trying to buy sex from an undercover officer posing as a streetwalker. Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans didn't identify the 30-year-old driver.Evans said the man stopped twice Wednesday to talk with...
N.J. Family Finds Burial Plot Occupied
STAFFORD, N.J. (AP) -- One family got a surprise at a relative's funeral in Ocean County. He couldn't be buried because there was another body already in the cemetery plot that he bought.Auto body shop owner Garry Meredith died of bone cancer at 64 last week. During his illness,...
Policy Violations Found In Gibson Arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A sheriff's supervisor considered withholding details about Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant from an arrest report but was eventually overrruled by a captain, a department watchdog said Thursday.
TSA Draws Travelers' Complaints
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate patdown.Those complaints and other frustrations make the...
Firings Over Prank-Call Shock Treatments
BOSTON (AP) -- Seven people have been fired over electrical shocks given to two emotionally disturbed teenagers at the direction of what turned out to be a prank caller, the...
Phil Spector Sues Shapiro Again for $1M
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nearly five years after his arrest in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson, music producer Phil Spector is still trying to get a refund of a $1 million fee he paid to his first attorney, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
