A suspect found inside a Les Schwab Tire store in Spokane Valley after an alarm went off told deputies it was neither his groin nor his meth found in his groin area they recovered after arresting him Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police in Suðurnes were, for possibly the first time in the history of the region, called out to break up a party being held by cats.
Morgunblaðið reports that residents living around a house known to be unoccupied for some time noticed several cats coming in and out of an open window. This piqued the curiosity of residents, who summarily called police to the location at around noon last Sunday.
Police arrived at the scene and, entering the house, found no people there. However, two to three cats — the exact number is still unclear — were allegedly occupying the house. According to police reports, the cats were snuggling
on a couch that had been left behind by the previous residents.
Officers on the scene sprang into action, immediately evicting the cats from the house. They then ensured that all doors and windows into the house were securely closed and locked, in the hopes of preventing an incident of this sort from ever happening again — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A burglar has been caught red-handed after accidentally filming a break-in on his mobile phone.
Emmanuel Jerome, 23, from Newsome, thought he had switched on a torch on his iPhone during the night-time burglary.
Instead, he mistakenly recorded the raid on its camera device.
Mr Jerome, who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary last month, was sentenced to 44 weeks in prison this week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A New York police officer was arrested on Wednesday after planning the kidnap, rape, torture and cannibalisation of a number of women, the FBI said.
Gilberto Valle, who has been an officer with the NYPD for six years, was detained after the FBI intercepted emails and instant messages showing that he conspired with others to abduct, cook and eat body parts of a number of women
.
The criminal complaint cites numerous emails and instant messages that shed light on macabre planning of torture and cannibalism.
The FBI alleges that Valle, 28, met one of his potential victims for lunch, but did not follow through with the acts discussed in his electronic communications. The complaint shows that Valle was corresponding with two unnamed co-conspirators before his arrest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An 82-year-old grandmother took on a bank robber who was armed with a gun and a home-made bomb, according to an Austrian newspaper report.
Hertha Wallecker is said to have ripped the thief’s mask off and snatched a bag containing cash he had stolen out of his hand, shouting: The money belongs to the bank.
The robber fled the bank in the village of Sankt Egyden, in the country’s east, empty-handed and was arrested later in the day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
PROBLEM: We know that domestic violence rates spike during Christmas and New Year’s. Following the 2006 World Cup (in which Italy defeated France in a shootout), the UK’s Home Office released a report claiming that domestic violence had risen during the tournament. Are sporting events really as emotionally fraught as the holidays?
METHODOLOGY: Professor Allan Brimicombe and BBC News journalist Rebecca Café applied more vigorous analysis to the Home Office’s theory. Invoking England’s Freedom of Information Act, they obtained statistics from police reports from the 2010 World Cup and the analogous, football-free period in 2009. In addition to studying the overall rate of domestic violence, they looked specifically at the outcomes of the tournament games, predicting that losses would spur more domestic disputes, while wins might be associated with joy, conviviality, and, consequently, fewer incidences of violence.
RESULTS: When England lost 4-1 to Germany, its heaviest defeat at the World Cup finals
, domestic violence rose by 31.5 percent. But a few days earlier, when hope for the championship was still alive and England defeated Slovenia, domestic violence also rose, by a similar 27.7 percent.
Interestingly, when England tied Slovenia, incidences of violence only increased by 0.1 percent, and when its match against the US ended in a draw, the domestic violence rate actually dropped by 1.9 percent.
CONCLUSION: Both dramatic wins and devastating losses during the World Cup were associated with significantly increased domestic violence in England, while ties didn’t appear to have any effect — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his pigs. Terry Vance Garner, 69, never returned after he set out to feed his animals last Wednesday on his farm near the Oregon coast, the Coos county district attorney said on Monday.
A family member found Garner’s dentures and pieces of his body in the pig enclosure several hours later, but most of his remains had been consumed, the district attorney, Paul Frasier, said. Several of the pigs weighed 320kg (700lb) or more.
It is possible Garner had a medical emergency, such as a heart attack, or was knocked over by the animals, then killed and eaten, Frasier said, adding that at least one pig had previously bitten Garner.
The possibility of foul play is being investigated as well. For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it’s so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities,
Frasier told the Register-Guard newspaper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The leader of an Amish breakaway group was convicted on Thursday of hate crimes in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against members of his own faith following a dispute over religious differences.
A federal jury found Samuel Mullet Sr guilty of orchestrating the cuttings of Amish men’s beards and women’s hair last fall in attacks that terrorised the normally peaceful religious settlements in eastern Ohio.
Mullet and four of his children were among 16 people who prosecutors say planned and carried out the five separate attacks that amounted to hate crimes because they were motivated by religious disputes. Prosecutors say the defendants targeted hair because it carries spiritual significance in their faith — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A leaping dog inadvertently shot his master in the hand by catching the trigger of his shotgun during a hunt in the Dordogne, south-western France.
The shot blew off part of the huntsman’s right hand, which he had to have amputated after being flown to hospital in Bordeaux.
But the victim, whose name was given as Rene, said he had only himself to blame for not applying the safety catch.
It wasn’t the dog’s fault — and he’s adorable! he told France Bleu radio — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Baton Rouge surgeon, Catherine Baucom, MD of Elliot Mastology Centre, was on her way to surgery at BRASS Surgery Centre Wednesday morning when she found herself caught in the traffic caused by the accident that shut-down Interstate 10 early Wednesday morning.
According to officials at BRASS Surgery Centre, Dr Baucom tried to navigate the gridlock to no avail, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.
Dr Baucom remembered a friend that lived a few blocks from her position in the mayhem and made her way to his house.
Catherine called, she was outside my house. She said ‘Hey do you have a bike?’ I walked outside and said yea, its a kids bike,
said Dr Brian Barnett. After a quick test run, Dr Baucom decided the bike was her only choice to get to the hospital. I got the air pump out and aired the tires up as much as I could.
He gladly loaned her his seven year old daughter’s bike and helmet and the nearly six foot tall surgeon resumed her journey to the surgery centre.
It was hot pink and small,
Dr Baucom said, describing the bike. The helmet was pink with princesses.
He added he was laughing so much he couldn’t get video of her before she peddled away. But she did utilise the plastic basket on front, to put her cell phone in. Showed her experience with the bike
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man wearing a Sasquatch suit died after being struck by two cars Sunday evening on US Highway 93 south of Kalispell.
The Flathead County Coroner has identified the victim as Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell.
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider says friends of the victim said Tenley was wearing a military-style camouflage ghillie suit in hopes of creating a Bigfoot hoax — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Health bosses have banned metal paper fasteners from GP surgeries, clinics and offices — because they are deemed a safety risk.
Staff at NHS Manchester are no longer allowed to use to the steel binders after a member of staff hurt their finger on one.
A memo sent to all of the health trust’s employees said the fasteners are now prohibited.
Instead it warns staff to use plastic ones to avoid injury — and urges them to dispose of the metal clips carefully
.
Astonished staff have described the move as nannying — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Everglades City airboat captain who lost his hand to an alligator last month was arrested Friday.
Wallace Weatherholt, 63, is facing a misdemeanour charge of unlawful feeding of an alligator — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A gang of thieves dressed as knights and armed with a sword and an axe robbed the organisers of a medieval festival in north-east France and made off with 20,000 euros ($25,000), police said.
The theft took place in the early hours of Monday as organisers were counting revenues from the festival in Bitche, near France’s border with Germany, a spokesman for regional police in Lorraine said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US woman who stole a baby from a New York City hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her own has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Pettway, 51, was arrested last year after the victim, Carlina White, discovered she had been kidnapped.
She pleaded guilty in February to kidnapping the three-week-old Ms White from hospital.
Prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to 20 years, saying they had uncovered new facts about the case.
They specifically challenged the defence’s contention that Pettway had provided a stable, loving and happy home
, for Ms White for 23 years. She was raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut and later in Georgia.
Pettway was convicted of five crimes while Ms White was in her custody, according to a probation department, and had used cocaine from 1983 to 2005.
Ms White’s biological mother, Joy White, also told probation officers that her daughter told her that Pettway had once hit her with a shoe, leaving an imprint on her face — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NBC’s official Olympic website describes Australia as located in central Europe:
Located in central Europe, bordered to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, to the west by Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to the south by Italy and Slovenia, and to the east by Hungary and Slovakia. Is primarily mountainous with the Alps and foothills covering the western and southern provinces.
And people have been pointing it out for at least a day, and NBC is sticking to its story — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A C-17 Globemaster III headed for MacDill Air Force Base on Friday afternoon landed inadvertently
at the much smaller Peter O Knight GA airport located just a few miles away, according to airport authorities.
The 174-foot-long transport touched down on the airport’s 3,405-foot-long, 100-foot-wide runway around 1.30pm, coming to a stop within 10 feet of the runway’s end, according to witnesses. The C-17 had flown in from Southwest Asia with 42 people on board, 19 of whom were crewmembers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police across several states have warned Australian mobile users of a text message that threatens death unless $5000 is paid.
NSW Police said they did not believe the text, which was sent to a large number of people
this morning, posed a genuine threat and said they were investigating its source — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This time, Alaska may have really found a way to fix American politics. The mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, boats sky-high approval ratings, a 15-year winning streak and, with over 6,000 subscribers, more friends than you on Facebook.
His secret? He’s a cat.
Fifteen years ago, the citizens of Talkeetna (pop. 800) didn’t like the looks of their candidates for mayor. Around that same time resident Lauri Stec, manager of Nagley’s General Store, saw a box of kittens and decided to adopt one. She named him Stubbs because he didn’t have a tail and soon the whole town was in love with him.
So smitten were they with this kitten, in fact, that they wrote him in for mayor instead of deciding on one of the two lesser candidates. Mayor Stubbs has held his position ever since — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now that I have gone to my reward, I have confessions and things I should now say. As it turns out, I am the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971. I could have left that unsaid, but I wanted to get it off my chest. Also, I really am not a PhD. What happened was that the day I went to pay off my college student loan at the U of U, the girl working there put my receipt into the wrong stack, and two weeks later, a PhD diploma came in the mail. I didn’t even graduate, I only had about 3 years of college credit. In fact, I never did even learn what the letters PhD
even stood for. For all of the Electronic Engineers I have worked with, I’m sorry, but you have to admit my designs always worked very well, and were well engineered, and I always made you laugh at work. Now to that really mean Park Ranger; after all, it was me that rolled those rocks into your geyser and ruined it. I did notice a few years later that you did get Old Faithful working again. To Disneyland — you can now throw away that Banned for Life
file you have on me, I’m not a problem any more — and SeaWorld San Diego, too, if you read this — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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