Posts Tagged ‘odd’

Police: Woman torched man’s porch after breakup (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Detroit authorities said a 29-year-old woman who was upset because her boyfriend broke up with her has been arrested after she lit his porch on fire. Fire Department investigators said neighbors saw the woman pour gas on the concrete porch and light it on fire about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Police: Ohio man used rifle, ax on park gate (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Police in southwest Ohio said a man was so angry that a park revoked his privileges that he destroyed the park gate with an assault rifle and an ax. Police said 23-year-old Michael Rosenbaum, of Cincinnati, was arrested Tuesday on charges of vandalism and possession of criminal tools.

Police say dresser saved woman, kids from bullet (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Police said a dresser positioned near a window kept a bullet from hitting a woman and her two young children as they slept at a southwestern Pennsylvania housing project. Uniontown police said Tina Schoch was sleeping with her 2-year-old and infant sons when a bullet pierced her window late Saturday at the Pershing Court complex.

Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool for disruption (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Court officials say a Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ didn't live up to it when she reported for jury duty this week. The woman, previously named Dorothy Lola Killingworth, was sent to Judge Clyde Jones's courtroom for a criminal case Monday.

Ohio charity workers find marijuana in donated jug (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Police said whoever donated a water jug to a charity in southeast Ohio probably didn't mean to be so generous. The jug contained about $1,500 worth of marijuana. Police said workers at a local Goodwill Industries site recently found four bags of marijuana when they looked inside a water jug left outside by an anonymous donor.

Space alien search costs AZ school worker his job (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - A former Arizona school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

Peruvian wedding crashed by groom’s ex (AP)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
AP - Edwin Ortiz was just about to utter "I do," but the mother of his two children and her relatives had a different message: "Oh, no you don't." One moment, the 27-year-old Peruvian was sitting happily in a large wedding hall with 17 other couples, declaring his love for his wife-to-be to TV cameramen in the southern town of Miraflores.

Snap-happy Vienna orangutan opens Facebook gallery (Reuters)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Reuters - A 33-year-old furry photographer is winning fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of her daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo.

Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower (Reuters)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Reuters - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.