Girl, 3, vies for tattoo record

Most three-year-old girls are just getting to grips with felt pens, but Ruby Dickinson is taking her artistic tendencies a step further. The toddler is set to become the world's youngest tattoo art.---...More

Wild West-Arizona to allow concealed weapons without permit

PHOENIX, Arizona - Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others’ concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit. The measure takes effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends. Alaska and Vermont now do not require permits to carry concealed weapons.
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Food fight leads to cheese sandwich menu

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - Officials with a New Jersey high school said students received a cheese sandwich menu for two days as punishment for a food fight. School superintendent Fredrick Nickles said cafeteria workers at Atlantic City High School prepared and served a cheese sandwich-only menu Wednesday and Thursday for the lunch period involved in Tuesday’s food fight.---...More

Woman seeks police help to detain 'spirit' of her dead brother

KUALA LUMPR: A woman has sought the help of police to detain the "spirit" of her dead brother, which she claimed has been disturbing her. Local media reports said the woman's brother had died ye...---...More

Beach-cleaning group reports latest finds

New Jersey - Dirty underpants, a mannequin wearing socks, an air conditioner and a still-working iPhone were among some of the stranger items of trash picked up from New Jersey’s beaches. Clean Ocean Action is marking its 25th year of beach sweeps in the Garden State. This afternoon, the coastal environmental group will release its full report on all the disgusting, dangerous and just flat-out weird trash that made its way onto the state’s beaches during the past quarter-century. ---...More

Georgia man arrested twice in day on drug charge

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- Albany authorities did a double take when they arrested a man twice on the same drug charge in one day. Authorities said a man, 26, was charged with possession of marijuana around noon on Friday after police pulled him over during a routine traffic stop. He was sent to the Dougherty County Jail and released on bond four hours later.---...More

Trooper pulls near squad car, sees passed out teen

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon State Police trooper pulled up next to a parked Marion County sheriff's patrol car late Saturday expecting to talk to the deputy. Instead he found an 18-year-old passed out over the steering wheel. State police said the Ford Mustang had been stolen from the deputy's home.---...More

Ohio boy, 8, takes family van for gas, crashes

BETHEL, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man says his 8-year-old son was just trying to do him a favor and get gasoline when the boy drove the family's minivan and crashed it. James Crouch says he didn't even realize his son, Jordan, was out of the house Friday morning until a Clermont County sheriff's deputy came to the family's home in Bethel and woke him up to let him know what happenedMore

Typo costs prisoner 3 extra years in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A Thai man has been released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said Friday..More

Tiger Woods Fights Line Of Sex Toys

TMZ.com reported that it had a copy of a letter Woods' attorney sent to Pipedream Products, which is already selling the products.TMZ posted a picture it said was of the merchandise in a Los Angeles s...---...More

Botox In Baghdad Iraqis Get Nips, Tucks

Dr. Abbas al-Sahan's patient wasn't a war victim. She didn't have a scar that needed cosmetic surgery. All she wanted was a cute nose. And she got it. Speaking after the surgery, bandages and swelling...---...More

Watermelons Stop Traffic In New Zealand

Wellington - Two tons of watermelons fell from a truck on Auckland's southern motorway on Sunday, closing the highway for more than two hours. Police said sweepers had to use hoses to shift the mes...---...More

Granny camps out 43 hours for grandson's ice cream

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson. Michelle Cuestas of Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to make sure her grandson would be first in line for the 2010 opening of a Stevens Point ice-cream landmark---...More

Police: Woman again tries using cabs to steal TVs

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Police said a North Pole woman accused in December of stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again. The Fairbanks Dail News-Miner reported that a 27-year-old woman was charged with second-degree felony robbery and misdemeanor theft in the Friday incident, which occurred just one week after she posted bail in the similar case last year....---...More

Accused scratch-off thief returns to same store

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- A Winter Haven man was arrested after authorities said he took a winning scratch-off ticket back to the store he had stolen it from a day earlier. The Polk County Sheriff's Office reported that a 22-year-old man stole $70 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a Circle K store on Sunday. One of the tickets revealed a $50 prize---...More

Airline charges $80 extra for an aisle seat

New York - David Stewart, a commodities trader in New York, was stunned to learn last week that he would have to pay $80 for an aisle seat he wanted on a Virgin Atlantic flight to London. But ahead of and behind him, an entire section of aisle seats sat empty, apparently because other passengers declined to pay for them. ---...More

Strange Twist to Telecel Fraud Scandal

TELECEL'S US$1.7 million fraud claims last week took a new twist with police saying the mobile operator had not made any report despite a glut of public statements on the matter. The fraud was report.---...More

Police officer arrested in teen’s bedroom

SEARCY, Arkansas - A 48-year-old Searcy police officer who worked as a school resource officer has been arrested in the bedroom of a 16-year-old girl. Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler says state police agents were waiting in the room when Hamilton Riley entered through a window about 1 a.m.---...More

Size-D Implants Saved Woman’s Life

Beverly Hills, California - A cosmetic surgeon says a woman’s size-D breast implants might have saved her life when a gunman opened fire at her office. Lydia Carranza was working at the Simi Valley dental office when her co-worker, the gunman’s wife, was shot and killed. Carranza survived a gunshot to the chest.---...More

Japanese restaurateur,Is it the soup

By Chris Meyers Tokyo - A Japanese restaurateur has turned the nation's everyday comfort food, ramen or noodle soup, into a pricey, gourmet affair that costs more than $100 and takes three days to ---...More

Docs leave foot-long instrument in woman's abdomen

It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen. This month, doctors at a clinic in the southeastern town ---...More

First came love, then came marriage-night arrests

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- A marriage got off to a rocky start after the 21-year-old groom from northern Idaho was arrested twice on his wedding night and charged with assaulting his new wife in nearby eastern Washington. Court records show Nathan Lewis of Lewiston, Idaho, was charged Tuesday in Asotin County Superior Court with second-degree assault and interfering with a report of domestic violence---...More

Britons wash their sheets every 4 months

LONDON - A British company said its survey suggests more than half a million people in the country only wash their bed sheets an average three times per year. The company said 8 percent of Northern Ireland respondents admitted the same unhygienic practice. ---...More

Police: Woman used hit-and-run excuse when tardy

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- State police said a western Pennsylvania woman faked a report that she was a hit-and-run victim because she was afraid she'd get fired for being late to work. Courtni Roberts, 20, faces a preliminary hearing March 31 on a charge of making false reports to police on Feb. 5
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Meatless Mondays to Stop Climate ‘Emergency’

Cambridge, Massashusetts - Going green will not be optional in Cambridge. It will be mandatory. There will be congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Curbside parking will be eliminated. There will be a carbon tax and taxes on plastic and paper bags. Also vegetarianism and veganism, complete with “Meatless or Vegan Mondays. ---...More

Del. teen found in igloo with pot, bongs, knife

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) -- Police responding to a report of a suspicious man carrying a gun instead found two legs sticking out of a homemade igloo. New Castle County police said the legs belong to Delaware teen who was arrested Wednesday after he was found to be carrying a survival knife, a hammer, 7.5 grams of marijuana and two marijuana pipes.---...More