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Shannon Cheripka and Angela Crook attempted to rob a store that sells adult toys, but they got nowhere because they were using a toy gun. DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police said two women who tried to rob a central Pennsylvania adult book store with a toy gun didn’t fool a clerk, who told them to […]
Comedian Bob Marley broke the world record for longest comedy act when he walked the stage for 40 hours, as he raised money for charity. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Comedian Bob Marley raised more than $12,000 for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland, Maine, by joking his way to a record standup act that […]
ATLANTA — That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man” signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly$2 billion (euro1.59 billion) for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country’s use of renewable energy sources. Obama disclosed the funding in his weekly radio and online address, saying it is part of his plan to bring […]
NEW CANAAN, Conn. – A young girl climbed to the roof of her parent’s crib, and got stuck trying to come down through the chimney. Assistant Fire Chief Jack Hennessey said the girl climbed up a house painter’s ladder Wednesday morning, walked across the roof and tried to climb down the chimney. She almost made […]
LAS VEGAS, NV – Former Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Randall Cunningham’s 2year old son was found dead after apparently drowning in a hot tub. Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn says it appeared to have been an accident. He says a woman at the house with several other children found the boy about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday […]
SALEM, ORE – An 81 year old man went after the owner of a taco stand with a machete because he believes the man had stole from him. Police said an 81-year-old man was arrested after he chased another man around a Salem taco stand while armed with a machete. Salem police said Monday the […]
A Chicago man who thought he was hiring a hit man to kill his ex-wife but was in fact dealing with an undercover DuPage County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 34 years in prison today, officials said. Johnson,-Johnthis.jpg John Johnson, 42, of the 5800 block of Adams Street, was found guilty by a jury in […]
PEORIA, IL – Tracy Durham was apparently shot in the leg late Sunday evening, but did not feel any pain. He discovered the wound four hours later after going to sleep, waking up, and being questioned by a neighbor about his limb. Really… no bullshit. Police say Durham recalled calling the friend’s girlfriend ugly. The […]
A man pulled out a semi-automatic gun and killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun around and shot himself in the presence of his seven year old daughter. 25-year-old Ashley Oliver was killed Sunday by Tommie Hill, also 25, in front of his 7-year-old daughter who sat helplessly in the car as the ordeal […]