BOSTON Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson, of Framingham, was arrested Monday after the U.S. Airways flight from Las Vegas landed at Logan International Airport.
DOTHAN, Ala. Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said an inmate's bid to escape the county jail on Saturday was foiled by a correctional officer. Hughes said a 19-year-old man used a hidden hacksaw to cut through a cell bar, but an observant correctional officer saw the damage and searched the inmate's cell.
GREAT BEND, Kan. A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. Kory McFarren cashed in his winning $2 Bonus Crossword ticket in Great Bend Monday.
JACKSON, Mo. Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old Cape Girardeau man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself.
A man identified as a middle-aged Westerner swims in the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Japanese police officers on a boat try to apprehend him on Tuesday October 7, 2008. Japanese police have apprehended the man who went skinny dipping in the moat around the Imperial Palace, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.
TOKYO Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.
POCATELLO, Idaho An intersection in southeastern Idaho has proven unlucky for a woman who's been in two car accidents at the same crossroads since August. Kris Payne was driving at the intersection of Pole Line and Eldredge roads on Thursday when another driver ran a red light and collided into her Chevy Blazer.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. A Glenwood Springs animal shelter was trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium. The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the cats on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to accommodate the animals at area shelters and homes.
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries in the area.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving.
In this undated image released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT student Oliver Smoot is shown lying on the ground of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Cambridge, Mass. Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering Smoot measured 5-foot-7 inches, they marked the bridge every five feet and seven inches, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each new measurement. They soon determined the bridge was 364.4 "Smoots" long. Smoot returned Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, to be honored at MIT, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented the unique measurement 50 years ago.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.
ELK GROVE, Calif. That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.
Chinese winner Yakefujang Maimitili walks on a high wire during the World High Wire Championships in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. Twenty seven high-wire walkers from 14 countries challenged on the tightrope, a wire rope of 30 millimeters in diameter stretching 1,000 meters across the Han River in Seoul.
SEOUL, South Korea A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday.
This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth.
CAPLEN, Texas A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks.
GREENVILLE, Maine There's no such thing as a free lunch anymore for Black Frog Restaurant patrons nervy enough to run down a dock and plunge naked into Moosehead Lake.
In this June 5, 2008 file photo, visitors look at a giant panda through the protective glass of a renovated panda hall inside a zoo in Beijing, China. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The pandas of the Wuhan Zoo were tired and suffering from a little shock since the start Monday of the weeklong National Day holiday, one of the biggest travel seasons of the year. On Oct. 1, 2008, up to 30,000 people swarmed the zoo and about 1,000 tourists packed the panda enclosure, shouting to get the animals' attention. The pandas paced restlessly.
BEIJING Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul - even pandas.
This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth.
CAPLEN, Texas A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. A massive pumpkin has gone missing from a front yard of a home in suburban Flint, Mich. - and its owner suspects some mighty strong thieves.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. A Rhode Island man faces charges after the cigarette he was smoking inside a car apparently ignited fireworks.
MONROE, Wash. An online advertisement offered $28.50 an hour to anyone who wore a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, eye protection and ventilator mask and waited near a bank.
FORT MYERS, Fla. Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning.
MUKWONAGO, Wis. Police said a man was arrested after he used a cigarette lighter while trying to siphon gasoline from a van. The man, who was visiting friends, went to drive home early Saturday but realized that he didn't have enough gas in his SUV.
SCRANTON, Pa. There's something about Scranton that must be special for this bear: He keeps returning. Pennsylvania Wildlife Conservation Officer Mark Rutkowski says the bear he caught near a Scranton elementary school is the same one he caught on Labor Day in Scranton - and the same one he tagged in April in nearby Moosic.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had a few drinks before he was arrested. The reason? He'd consumed fermented mare's milk, not beer or liquor.
In this June 9, 2008 file photo, Manuel "Meme" Uribe, 42, kisses his girlfriend Claudia Solis during an interview with the Associated Press, in Monterrey, Mexico. Uribe says he will wed longtime Solis on Oct. 26, 2008 in Monterrey. (AP Photo/Monica Rueda).
MONTERREY, Mexico The world's most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in a civil ceremony at a location still to be decided.
LAS VEGAS Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit.
MEXICO CITY Missing in Mexico: 5,000 condoms, sound equipment and a motor used to inflate a giant prophylactic, all stolen from a "condom-mobile" used to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.
Angelene Schultz, 92, left, poses with her granddaughter Erica S. Schultz, 27, on Sept. 24, 2008, in Saginaw Township, Mich. Angelene will serve as Erica's matron of honor at her wedding on Oct. 17.
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. Many brides-to-be pick best friends to serve as their maids or matrons of honor. But Erica Schultz's best buddy isn't a high school friend or a college pal. It's her 92-year-old grandmother.
PORTLAND, Ore. Joy Sartin claimed she kept her money in her bra because she didn't have her purse with her, and she was only offering to pay a traffic ticket with it.
MUKWONAGO, Wis. Police said a man was arrested after he used a cigarette lighter while trying to siphon gasoline from a van. The man, who was visiting friends, went to drive home early Saturday but realized that he didn't have enough gas in his SUV.
A home is seen Sept. 17, 2008, in Saginaw, Mich. With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for the abandoned home in Saginaw. Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported, in September 2008. Her bid was one of eight for the home. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.
SAGINAW, Mich. With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw. Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported. Her bid was one of eight for the home.
A tranquilized mountain lion lies in a transportation wagon at Casper's Wyoming Game and Fish Department office after being captured in the backyard of a home near downtown Casper, Wy. on Monday, Sept. 29, 2008.
CASPER, Wyo. A police officer didn't think much of a call to shoo off a bothersome "kitty cat" at a home in Casper, Wyo. Then the officer arrived at the home of Beverly Hood. It was no ordinary domestic feline - but a male mountain lion weighing 80 to 90 pounds.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Hundreds of people are being drawn to a Catholic hospital in Springfield by what they say looks like an image of the Virgin Mary in a window. Sister Kathleen Sullivan, senior vice president at Mercy Medical Center, said the image in a vacant, second-story office was first noticed Tuesday morning.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. A laptop thief got caught - after the computer owner tracked him remotely. Jose Caceres said he used a remote access program to log on every day and watch his computer being used, and then tipped off police, leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old male suspect.
ORANGE, Calif. An Orange school board trustee known for his dark glasses, knit cap and rants at meetings was suspected of condiment kidnapping.
LA MESA, Calif. Times have been tough for banks everywhere, but a San Diego-area Wells Fargo branch had an especially difficult day this week. The branch in La Mesa was robbed twice on Monday - by two different robbers.
A tranquilized mountain lion lies in a transportation wagon at Casper's Wyoming Game and Fish Department office after being captured in the backyard of a home near downtown Casper, Wy. on Monday, Sept. 29, 2008.
CASPER, Wyo. A police officer didn't think much of a call to shoo off a bothersome "kitty cat" at a home in Casper, Wyo. Then the officer arrived at the home of Beverly Hood. It was no ordinary domestic feline - but a male mountain lion weighing 80 to 90 pounds.
TIPTON, Ind. Richards' Auction Gallery had one interesting item up for sale this week just in time for Halloween: A real human skeleton.
TIPTON, Ind. A human skeleton is making the transition from apparent Halloween decoration to research tool. The skeleton, nestled in a black coffin draped with fake spider webs, sold for $500 at an auction Tuesday. Richards' Auction Gallery sold the unique item to a Tipton resident who agreed to donate it to a forensics center for research, said Anita Mattingly, fiancee of auctioneer Tim Richards.
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Sometimes, blowing your own horn is too much of a good thing. Glen Falls police said an upstate New York driver who was stopped for blowing his vehicle's horn excessively was charged with driving while intoxicated.
MONROE, Wash. A man sprayed an armored car driver with pepper spray, grabbed a bag of money and escaped via inner tube down a river in Washington state.
DETROIT In a case that echoes a "Seinfeld" episode, a former postal worker has been charged with stealing thousands of pieces of mail that authorities say she had kept in a storage unit northwest of Detroit.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. A golden retriever who was 400 miles from his Atlanta home booked a trip back by simply looking pathetic outside of a Florida travel agency.
St. PETERSBURG, Fla. An Atlanta pooch traveled more than 400 miles for a Florida vacation, but even that might not have been enough for the golden retriever.
INYOKERN, Calif. Thousands of dollar bills stolen from a restaurant in California's high desert could not have been more clearly marked: The Homestead had a tradition of customers writing messages on the currency and hanging it on the walls.
People are seen preparing for an attempt to lay the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world during the third German Jigsaw Puzzle Day on Sunday, Sept. 28 2008, in Ravensburg. The jigsaw puzzle will have more than one million parts.
RAVENSBURG, Germany Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.
INYOKERN, Calif. A group of suspected thieves in Kern County may need to learn the concept of "unmarked bills." A restaurant known as The Homestead in the high desert town of Inyokern had a tradition of customers hanging dollar bills on its walls, usually inscribing them with messages and other distinguishing details.
In this photo released by Kinosaki Marine World, one of dolphins at the Japanese marine park in Toyooka, western Japan, is fed mackerel Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 30, 2008 as they go through the final stage of a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances. Park spokesman Haruo Imazu said Tuesday that all its 19 dolphins have been on a low fat diet since late August, when they started failing to hit jumping targets and keep upright while treading water. Keepers found the mackerels on their menu had gotten fattier, adding too many calories for the dolphins.
TOKYO Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances.
BARNEGAT, N.J. Someone keeps stealing the metal signs at mile marker 66.6 along two of New Jersey's most traveled roads, and authorities are having a devil of a time keeping up with the thefts.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Two armed robbers hijacked a security van with $1.3 million inside but were forced to abandon more than half the cash because their small getaway car could not carry it all, Malaysian police said Tuesday.
