A Fond du Lac man was arrested after he told police a ghost
punched and strangled his wife.
Michael F West, 41, of 281 Fond du Lac Avenue, was charged Wednesday with strangulation and misdemeanours of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer.
At about 8/00pm 15 January, police arrived at West’s home to find the woman crying and bleeding from her nose — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Northern Territory Police are questioning a man after he allegedly tried to rob an off-duty police officer before being pulled out of Darwin Harbour naked.
The man allegedly demanded cash from the officer outside the Woolworths supermarket at the northern suburb of Nightcliff before running off when the officer told him he was a policeman — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mother and daughter told a court only God had the authority to order them to pull down an illegal extension to their South Golden Beach property, but the magistrate took a different view.
In a hearing at Mullumbimby Local Court on Thursday, Byron Shire Council argued the downstairs area of the property was not approved to live in as part of the original development consent and it should be demolished.
The council’s governance manager, Ralph James, said despite several requests over the past two years, the property owner had not taken any reasonable steps to get the downstairs development approved or cease use of the area — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Irishman and a Frenchman went into a bar, but the result was no laughing matter.
David Farrell, 26, of Ireland, and Nicholas Moinet, 24, of France, were among a group of travelling vineyard workers who broke into the river boat on the Opawa River, Blenheim, drank alcohol and took photos of each other having a great time, and then left the camera behind — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It required six months hard graft, meticulous attention to detail and the scraping away of tonnes of earth and concrete to carve the tunnel found burrowed into a Manchester shopping centre.
Yet the gang behind what should have been one of the most audacious heists Manchester police have witnessed ultimately escaped with little more than the cost of a secondhand car.
Announcing an investigation into what detectives are adamant is a local criminal outfit, police yesterday revealed fresh details into how the mole gang
spent months digging a 100ft-long passage beneath a video shop where a cash machine was located. However, the Hollywood-style heist yielded just £6,000 in a city where a luxury apartment can cost £1,000 a month.
A police spokesman said the gang escaped with around the same amount he had recently paid for a secondhand car — £5,500. He dismissed their haul as pocket-change
.
It was plausible, he said, that the gang may have even lost money on the operation given the amount of time, effort and equipment hire
involved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The astounding list of lost-and-found items has been compiled by the budget hotel chain after amused staff gathered up the abandoned treasures.
Among the quirkier items left behind include a life-size Mr Blobby costume, a case full of 100 Duchess of Cambridge masks, and an urn containing the ashes of a guest’s late wife.
One careless visitor left a box contained £50,000 worth of watches and a newlywed bride nearly lost her Vera Wang wedding gown when her husband forgot to pack it.
Staff at Nuneaton Travelodge were even treated to a Christmas surprise when a couple left an entire Santa’s grotto is their room.
They appear to have held their own early celebrations, and left a whole Christmas tree with decorations, lights, a model reindeer, a Father Christmas outfit and a turkey dinner behind.
An 18-month-old boy was accidentally left behind in a Winchester Travelodge, after his busy parents each thought the other had placed him in his car seat.
They drove away to attend a wedding, before realising their toddler son was not in the back of their car moments later.
An energetic Roborovski hamster was also found in his cage in Knutsford, after his forgetful owner drove back to Bristol without him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A decomposing body has been found about 10 metres up a tree in Prince Lane at Randwick at about 11.30am today.
Randwick council workers found the body after investigating resident complaints of a foul smell.
A council spokesman said the council contractors were pruning overgrown English Ivy on the tree to find the source of the odour when they discovered the body — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man with a rather unique name was arrested by Madison police Thursday because police said he was violating bail conditions from previous problems with the law.
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, Madison, was tentatively charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and a probation violation after his arrest at about 3.00pm in the 800 block of East Mifflin Street — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An American medical examiner faces criminal charges for keeping part of a human spine so she could train one of her dogs to search for corpses.
Traci England, 44, of Wyoming, was released on a $5,000 ($4877) bond but faces charges of misconduct in public office and theft, according to a statement from the Oneida County Sheriff’s office — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A would-be mugger made off with something more malodorous than money Thursday morning, police said.
An unknown man approached a 62-year-old woman as she was walking her dog just before 10.00am on the 100 block of Dakota. The man demanded the woman she give him everything she had, and he said that if she didn’t, he would kick her dog.
The woman handed him a bag and the suspect fled. Unbeknownst to the suspect, the bag she gave him contained her dog’s feces — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Maternal instincts don’t fade away, even at age 80.
Hialeah grandmother Josefa Lopez said she felt no fear earlier this week when she used the wrath of an angry mother and her aluminum cane to fight off a gunman who beat and robbed her 61-year-old daughter.
At one point, the man fired a shot but missed the enraged octogenarian, who turns 81 on Thursday. Speaking in Spanish from the porch of her home Wednesday, yards from the scene of the incident, Lopez said she blindly charged against the gunman after seeing her daughter lying on the circular driveway, bleeding from her face.
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I thought she was dead,
Lopez said. I yelled at [the gunman], ‘I am going to kill you, [son of a b—-]!’ I wasn’t myself. To me, she was dead.
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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It was meant to be a short-lived publicity stunt for a film that became a box-office smash despite withering reviews. But for the 221 inhabitants of Juzcar in southern Spain, The Smurfs in 3D has brought them an unexpected lifeline in tough economic times – and yesterday they voted overwhelmingly to keep it.
The tiny pueblo of white-washed buildings near Malaga in Andalucía was selected by the filmmakers this summer to be painted entirely in that unique hue, Smurf blue.
While Sony had promised to return the village to its former glory after filming and publicity, the residents have found that being blue is not so bad at all, and yesterday in a referendum voted 141 in favour and just 33 against to remain the world’s only Smurf village — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman died in a New York City office building after lift doors dragged her upwards and crushed her.
Officials say the woman, identified as advertising agency employee Suzanne Hart, was attempting to enter the lift when her foot or leg became caught.
The car then quickly rose, dragging her body into the shaft and killing her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Bay of Plenty house — and made himself at home on the couch.
A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night.
The seal had made its way from the Welcome Bay waterfront, through the suburb’s residential area, across busy Welcome Bay Rd, up a slip road, along Ms Swoffer’s long driveway, under a gate, through the cat door and up some stairs before he was found in the kitchen about 9.30pm
Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world’s richest cat.
Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south.
In a handwritten will, signed on 26 November, 2009, Tommaso’s mistress — the childless widow of a successful builder — gave her lawyers the task of identifying the animal welfare body or association to which to leave the inheritance and the task of looking after the cat Tommaso
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Adelaide police are combing through loam at Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens after the discovery of a second human leg bone.
A human leg bone was found last week by gardeners in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens in the city while they were spreading mulch which had been mixed at the Mount Lofty Gardens site.
A second bone was found on Monday morning.
Detective Sergeant Malcolm Williams says the loam is from one of two quarries used south of Adelaide.
He says police are treating the discovery as suspicious, although the bone could be anything from decades to centuries old — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The body of an alleged mafia boss, who US authorities said once led New York’s notorious Bonanno crime family, has been fished out from a river north of Montreal.
Reports identified the body as Salvatore Montagna, although police would not immediately confirm or deny the identity.
The FBI once called him the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, prompting one of New York’s tabloids to call him the “bambino boss” because of his rise to power in his mid-30s. Nicknamed “Sal the Iron Worker”, he owned and operated a successful steel business in the US.
Montagna’s death is the latest in a series of mafia-related killings and disappearances over the last two years. He was considered a contender to take over the Rizzuto family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Advent Sunday means it is time for the inauguration of the famous 13 metre tall Christmas goat (Gävlebocken) in the main square of Gävle, on the east coast of Sweden.
To the uninitiated, the annual saga of whether or not the goat survives intact until Christmas Day, has become a tradition of Yuletide in Sweden.
The giant straw goat, which has been erected in the town’s main square, Slottstorget, every year since 1966, undergoes a battle against the elements and local arsonists every year, which splits loyalties in the town — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Howrah Bridge in the Indian city of Kolkata is at risk of collapsing because the steel at its base is being corroded by human saliva.
Pedestrians who have been chewing betel leaf, areca nut and slaked lime have been spitting on the bridge’s steel hangers, causing them to weaken.
The red stains left by the paan mixture — a mild stimulant chewed throughout India — are caked around the metal casings of the bridge.
Authorities say the paan-laced spit has reduced the thickness of the bridge’s hangers from six millimetres to three millimetres — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jacob Stateski, 6, was crushed
when he learned a new rule at his school, Earl Beatty Public School, means he can’t take his soccer ball with him any more to play at recess. Nor can he bring his football. And tennis balls are also forbidden.
He said, ‘Daddy, what am I going to do with all my friends?’ He wanted to change schools,
said his father, Chris Stateski.
So now he and his buddies play with a little, tiny, Nerf ball he got from his 3-year-old brother,
says Stateski.
The happy days of kicking a ball around at recess ended Monday after students took home a letter advising that henceforth, no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball to the junior and senior school in the area of Coxwell and Danforth Aves.
The letter stated that there have been a few serious incidents
in which staff and students have been hit, or come close to being struck, by flying balls. From now on, only Nerf balls or sponge balls can be brought to school — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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