Judge orders defendant to change shirt

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -- A Vermont judge refused to arraign a domestic violence suspect until he changed his shirt, which had the words: "I bust mine to kick yours." Caledonia Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout told Christopher Bryant on Wednesday she .....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 4th, 2013

Teacher accused of sex act while driving

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. -- A teacher and coach at a north-central Pennsylvania high school has been suspended with pay after being charged with performing a sex act on himself that a passing trucker saw on Interstate 80. Online court records don't list an atto.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 4th, 2013

Goat taken from zoo walks into bar

BUTTE, Mont. -- So the goat that walked into a Montana bar last weekend ... was stolen from a petting zoo. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort general manager Steve Luebeck says staffers knew the goat was missing but didn't realize it had been stolen until they s.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 4th, 2013

Woman sees sign from God on cracker

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Patti Burke eats two or three pounds of Goldfish crackers in a week, one by one, looking for the saltiest of the snacks. But only once has she found a sign from God on a little orange cracker. "When I picked this one up, I knew he was s.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 4th, 2013

Survey: 49% of women fear becoming "bag lady"

A survey says almost half of the women in the United States fear becoming "bag ladies," according to video from WFYM. Even 27 percent of women who make more than $200,000 per year are afraid they will end up carrying their possessions in plastic bags arou.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Cops: Man pawned wedding ring to pay hooker

GREENWOOD, S.C. - A man is accused of selling his wedding ring to a pawn shop for $20 so he could pay for a prostitute, according to video from WLTX. Marvin Holmes, 33, picked up a prostitute and told her he didn't have any money, but he drove her to a pa.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Woman accused of hitting 3 in parking lot

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A Wyoming woman is behind bars after authorities say she intentionally hit three women with her car in a bar parking lot. Twenty-year-old Julia Big Crow of Cheyenne was being held at the Laramie County jail Wednesday on aggravated assaul.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Man scares off intruders with "fire poker"

MEDFORD, Ore. -- By Steve Johnson's account, it was a sight that struck terror in the hearts of the two young would-be burglars. When the 50-year-old Medford, Ore., man rounded a corner in his house clad only in his skivvies and armed with a fireplace t.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Man scares off intruders with "fire poker"

MEDFORD, Ore. -- By Steve Johnson's account, it was a sight that struck terror in the hearts of the two young would-be burglars. When the 50-year-old Medford, Ore., man rounded a corner in his house clad only in his skivvies and armed with a fireplace t.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

"Jew in a Box" exhibit stirs controversy

BERLIN -- "Are there still Jews in Germany?" ''Are the Jews a chosen people?" Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Cops: Man tried to cut off girlfriend"s toe

SANTA FE, New Mexico -- A former shoe salesman accused of biting off part of his girlfriend's toe has been arrested again, this time for allegedly stalking the woman and trying to cut off her big toe with a cigar cutter. Police say the incident Monday was.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Cop: Man pawned wedding ring to pay hooker

GREENWOOD, S.C. - A man is accused of selling his wedding ring to a pawn shop for $20 so he could pay for a prostitute, according to video from WLTX. Marvin Holmes, 33, picked up a prostitute and told her he didn't have any money, but he drove her to a pa.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 3rd, 2013

Man accused of stealing free cakes

PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh man who couldn't bear to wait in line for free cake has been arrested for theft. Hundreds of people were waiting Tuesday morning in downtown Pittsburgh to get free cakes from Buddy Valastro, star of the TV show The Cake Boss......»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

Man stages elaborate plane-crash joke

YUCAIPA, Calif. -- It's the plane crash that wasn't in Southern California. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports Yucaipa businessman staged an elaborate April Fool's joke on Monday......»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

Cops: Teen put girl"s number in sex ad

FINLEYVILLE, Pa. -- A 17-year-old western Pennsylvania girl is facing juvenile charges after she allegedly put her friend's cell phone number in a fake Craigslist sex ad. TV station WTAE reports Monday that the unidentified girl is being charged with unla.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

DJs" prank leads to small-scale panic

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A pair of longtime disc jockeys have gotten in hot water for their annual April Fools' Day joke. The problem: They joked about water quality, saying "dihydrogen monoxide" was coming out of residents' taps. It caused small-scale panic a.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

Inmate denies hiding phone in fake leg

UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn't sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of .....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

911 dispatcher sends mom to rescue

CATHLAMET, Wash. -- A 911 dispatcher in Washington state called on her own mother to rescue a stranded boater in the Columbia River, knowing her mother could kayak to the area faster than sending the sheriff's office patrol boat. A 45-year-old kayaker was.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

Naked man on bike leads chase

READING, Pa. -- Police in an eastern Pennsylvania city spent part of the early morning Easter Sunday chasing a naked man on a bicycle that was reported stolen. Reading police said two officers patrolling the city at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday were flagged dow.....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013

Video: Drunk man climbs high-voltage wires

A drunken man in northern China climbed on high-voltage wires, dangling for 15 minutes before falling onto a cushion set up by rescuers, according to video from Reuters. A crowd watch as a firefighter tried to convince the unidentified man to climb down, .....»»

Category: offbeatSource: azcentralApr 2nd, 2013