TAMPA, Fla. – Authorities in Florida say a man and woman who were intoxicated had to be rescued after falling asleep in a dumpster that was later emptied into a garbage truck. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials say the couple had been sleeping in a dumpster outside a convenience store near …
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia family has been awarded the rights to 10 rare gold coins possibly worth $80 million or more after a U.S. appeals court overturned a jury verdict. U.S. Department of the Treasury officials insist the $20 Double Eagles were stolen from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia before …
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FLINT, Mich. – A lawyer wants to enter his pet pig into the Flint mayoral race after a mix-up threated to keep candidates’ names off the primary election ballot. Michael Ewing started the “Giggles the Pig for Flint Mayor” effort after learning that the August primary could be skipped unless …
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A California woman was arrested after she was spotted with a handwritten fake license plate on the back of a suspected stolen car. The arrest happened on Friday morning in the city of Benicia, which is located about 30 miles north of San Francisco. The suspect, 38-year-old Angel Rachiene Bolton, …
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police in suburban Detroit are having a little fun while asking for help from the public in figuring out who swiped roughly 28,000 pounds of packaged nuts. The Shelby Township Police Department says a truck and trailer packed with 18 pallets of walnuts and other snack …
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MANSFIELD, Mass. – Parrotheads are apparently too busy wasting away in Margaritaville to wait in line for the bathroom. Mansfield police tell The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1HTQHnB ) that despite warnings against the practice, many fans at the Jimmy Buffett concert Saturday at the Xfinity Center brought homemade, portable toilets for …
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The results are in, and Massachusetts residents have flooded the Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission with submissions that range from solemn to sidesplitting. Some sketches pay homage to pine trees, codfish and Revolutionary heroes. Others went for humor, featuring Dunkin’ Donuts collages, velociraptors clutching coffees and lobsters taking the …
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Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a “vile” dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded “extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity” in Leicester’s …
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A man fed up by his roommate’s 5:30 a.m. smoothie habit garnered overwhelming support on the internet from people sympathetic to his dilemma — and his clever way of trying to deal with it. The man, who shared in a Reddit post that he’s 30 years old and from Melbourne, …
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Liv Cleary, a sports reporter for KEZI covering theOregon State-Lafayette game, went viral after fans interrupted her live shot with a new Generation Alpha meme trend. Bombarded by game watchers during her report, one attendee was several decibels higher than the others as he shouted “6-7” multiple times behind the …
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