http:///255/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Ledger-Enquirer.com en-us Copyright 2008 Ledger-Enquirer.com AP Weird News 60 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:34:18 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Ledger-Enquirer.com http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324449.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324449.html Sat, 17 May 2008 03:03 EDT The federal government isn't used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324383.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324383.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:28 EDT Going potty without a partner can lead to punishment for students at a Burgaw elementary school, but parents want the policy flushed. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324381.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324381.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:23 EDT Authorities said an 8-year-old Pontiac boy took a stolen car on a joy ride and caused a three-vehicle crash. Pontiac police said the boy sneaked out of his house Wednesday night and found an empty and running car in his neighborhood. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324149.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324149.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:23 EDT A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324142.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324142.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:23 EDT Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324378.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324378.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:19 EDT Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323650.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323650.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:19 EDT Brian LaFave couldn't care less how high gasoline prices climb these days - he's parked his pickup truck and is refusing to buy gas for a month, possibly longer. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324057.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/324057.html Fri, 16 May 2008 14:23 EDT A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned her high school equivalency diploma. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323410.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323410.html Thu, 15 May 2008 21:03 EDT DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson's van in February. Bite marks were left on the wheel wells and blood was found on the vehicle. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322831.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322831.html Fri, 16 May 2008 19:14 EDT A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323188.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323188.html Thu, 15 May 2008 19:53 EDT A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323209.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323209.html Thu, 15 May 2008 18:53 EDT Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323206.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323206.html Thu, 15 May 2008 18:53 EDT Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That's pretty much what happened to a Cumberland County couple arrested and charged with whacking each other with a frying pan. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323216.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323216.html Thu, 15 May 2008 16:04 EDT A robbery was prevented Thursday by an unusual crime-fighting tool - a parked car. Karla Gierstors of West Des Moines was walking in downtown Des Moines about 6:15 a.m. Thursday when a man threatened her with a box cutter and grabbed her purse. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323211.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323211.html Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59 EDT A race for a seat in the Arkansas House has taken on biblical proportions as a contender's campaign mailing offers a one-word description of the incumbent: "Judas!" http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323205.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/323205.html Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49 EDT A mother bear and her young cub stopped traffic and caused panic Thursday in central Romania after they roamed through gardens in search of food and finally climbed the stairs of a 4-story building and broke onto the roof. A rescue team tranquilized the mother after failing to steer her toward a nearby forest, officials said. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322091.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322091.html Thu, 15 May 2008 07:43 EDT A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322408.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322408.html Wed, 14 May 2008 18:43 EDT Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles - some the size of a child's hand - from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322192.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322192.html Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33 EDT A former Washington state social worker has been accused of faking brain cancer to avoid work. Theft charges were filed Tuesday against Sandra Dee Martinez, 40, formerly of Mountlake Terrace, who was employed by the Department of Social and Health Services in Arlington. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322135.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322135.html Wed, 14 May 2008 15:58 EDT Police say a dimwitted scheme to steal light poles from a village storage yard has resulted in two arrests on Long Island. Nassau County Police Lt. Ray Cote said Wednesday that neighbors noticed two men carving up the aluminum poles with a cordless power tool and stashing them in a van under the cover of darkness. He says plainclothes officers arrived and caught the thieves in the act. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322105.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/322105.html Wed, 14 May 2008 15:48 EDT The days of the cursing cabbie may be over. A New York City cab driver has been fined $1,000 for launching a foul-mouthed tirade at another cabbie. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321807.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321807.html Wed, 14 May 2008 15:20 EDT A Michigan doctor is getting a laugh out of a 51-cent property tax bill. It isn't just that Phil Kazanji's bill is so low. It's that it cost the city of Brighton $5.21 to send it to him by certified mail. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321802.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321802.html Wed, 14 May 2008 08:46 EDT An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321125.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321125.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:41 EDT A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321492.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321492.html Wed, 14 May 2008 09:06 EDT A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320892.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320892.html Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56 EDT A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321126.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321126.html Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56 EDT A man was arrested after pulling marijuana from his pocket at a security check at a court. The man was visiting the courts section of the Bradley County Justice Center on Monday when he was asked to empty his pockets into a plastic bowl, a standard procedure. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321030.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/321030.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59 EDT So much for spaghetti suppers: The First Baptist Church of Snellville is fueling its membership drive with a sign in front of its sprawling campus proclaiming "Free Gasoline." http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320989.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320989.html Tue, 13 May 2008 11:47 EDT Police in Massachusetts say churchgoers in a Cape Cod town tackled a would-be robber who tried to steal a collection box during a service. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320680.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/255/story/320680.html Tue, 13 May 2008 00:41 EDT A suburban Chicago man has reclaimed the Guinness world record for time spent on a stationary bicycle.