” ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A marriage-minded man ran naked through his neighborhood, trying to show his hesitant girlfriend that taking risks is important. He got more than he bargained for when he ended up being chased and shot at. “Just when you thought you had heard everything,” Ann Arbor …
Gasoline prices probably go up for a reason… so people can’t afford washing clothes with it anymore. ” A?St. Paul man is thankful to be alive tonight, after his washing machine exploded this morning in his basement. Glenn Johnson of St. Paul put gasoline?in his?machine to clean some greasy clothing.?Johnson …
” LOS ANGELES, May 16 (UPI) — U.S. rapper Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus has been told he is no longer welcome in Britain. Britain’s Home Office permanently banned the Los Angeles-based, hip-hop star, who received a caution from London police Monday for his part in an April brawl at Heathrow …
” Reuters Rome: A thief disguised as a security guard on Tuesday duped the unsuspecting staff of a top Italian art gallery into giving him more than 200,000 euros (137,000 pounds), local media reported. The thief showed up on Tuesday morning at the Pitti Palace, a grandiose renaissance construction in …
” BELFAST (AFP) – “This is your captain speaking: er, I’ve landed at the wrong airport. Er, sorry.” A bungling pilot flew straight into the centre of an investigation Wednesday after mistakenly landing at a military airbase rather than the regular destination in Northern Ireland. Thirty-nine passengers and six crew …
” NICOSIA (Reuters) – You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell. A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he …
” CAMBRIDGE, Md. – The eavesdropping tables were turned on President Bush on Friday. The president apparently believed he was speaking privately when he talked about listening in without a warrant on domestic communications with suspected al-Qaida terrorists overseas. But reporters were the ones doing the listening in this time. …
