Firefighters were called to a fire at the old George Washington Hotel this week and got a shock when they found a room splattered with blood and empty liquor bottles.
Washington Police Chief JR Blyth thought Sunday’s discovery was the most grisly murder scene in his 35 years in law enforcement. He committed several investigators to the crime scene
— until they realized it had been set up that way for a horror movie — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After a long-running email mix-up, an Australian man has enjoyed his first Thanksgiving in the United States with a family he has never met before — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German pensioner who wanted to seal off the entrance to his cellar ended up bricking himself into it, a police spokesman told Reuters on Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly burning a friend to death to assume his identity in a bid to avoid jail time, police say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s important for an attorney to have a niche. Attorney Cowboy Bob Clark
knows this as well as anyone:
Cowboy Bob”
Clark is representing a Mobile, Alabama man who stands accused of having sexual relations with a miniature horse, which could also be called animal rape. The man, Eric Easley, is charged with cruelty to animals and for killing or disabling livestock after allegedly tying up the horse and sexually assaulting it in the horse’s pen, according to the horse’s owner. His bond was set at $4,000, which he posted and was released. Easley contends that he didn’t have sex with the horse — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas estate is a lavish wonderland complete with South African penguins, sweeping crystal staircases and a memorabilia collection to make a celebrity junkie salivate: a Frank Sinatra champagne glass, Nat King Cole’s watch, Steve McQueen’s Rolls-Royce and a Johnny Cash guitar — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Arizona drivers were warned of the undead roaming a desert highway near Tucson over the weekend, after a suspected prankster tampered with an electronic road sign, police and news media said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German court has ruled that tattooing a pony with the Rolling Stones’ famous tongue logo would infringe animal rights law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Chinese doctors saved a girl’s hand by sewing it to her leg.
Ming Li’s left hand was severed from her wrist when she was run over by a tractor in July and was too badly damaged to reattach immediately after it.
Medics decided to temporarily attach the hand to her right calf so it could heal.
Surgeons have now successfully transplanted the nine-year-old girl’s hand back on to her arm and are confident she will be able to use it normally with no long-term side-effects — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prosecutors say a rural Wisconsin man blasted his TV with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin’s Dancing with the Stars
routine, sparking an all-night standoff with a SWAT team.
According to court documents, 67-year-old Steven Cowan became enraged while watching Palin dance on Monday evening. He felt Palin was not a good dancer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Max Hardberger makes his living by stealing back stolen cargo ships, beating pirates at their own game from Haiti to Russia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A city man who said he was wounded in a daylight shooting ate his lunch before asking his father for a ride to the hospital — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Florida teen was arrested for burglary after he left himself logged into his MySpace account at the scene of the crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
UK police forces are steeling themselves for an audit of body parts. The grim task will enable forces to take stock of the parts collected as evidence over the years and release to relatives those parts no longer needed for legal purposes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On screen, Dick Van Dyke has been rescued from untimely death by flying cars and magical nannies. Off screen, the veteran star of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins had to rely on the help of a pod of porpoises after apparently dozing off aboard his surfboard. I’m not kidding,
he said afterwards — via redwolf.newsvine.com
$335,000 purchase in Entropia Universe breaks record for largest-ever ransaction.
EntropiaPlanets, a fansite dedicated to the world of MMOG Entropia Universe, reports that one of the games’ users, Jon Jacobs, has sold a number of in-game properties to another user, John Foma Kalun — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Judge John Sutula was conducting his usual screening session with prospective jurors last week when he asked a question everyone in the jury pool must handle: Has anyone you know ever been convicted of a crime?
After some routine answers about relatively minor crimes, the question was put to John Backderf, better known as Derf, the cartoonist and graphic novelist who draws The City
for a number of alternative newspapers, including Cleveland Scene.
I had a close friend in high school who killed 17 people,
he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Manchester corner store clerk is thanking her fast-acting neighbor for foiling a robbery.
Police said Sean Cullen, 25, used a note to try to rob the Hillsborough Market on Lincoln Street.
…
The market’s owner said Cullen came in, displayed a threatening note, and verbally told her, Give me your money, or you’re going to die
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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