Blown-away Chihuahua reunited with owners

April 28, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight. Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK….

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US nuclear experts pull out of North Korea

April 22, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. monitors of North Korea’s nuclear program left the communist nation after the regime ordered them out and vowed to restart its reactor in anger over U.N. criticism of its recent rocket launch….
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NYC prosecutors: Dad robs, mom drives, kids ride

April 22, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said a New York City dad and another man robbed homes while his girlfriend drove the getaway minivan with the kids in tow. The three pleaded not guilty Wednesday to burglary and weapon charges. The Queens district attorney’s office said a witness saw the blue minivan outside his home Monday with a woman in the driver’s seat and the two men going out his front door….
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Cops: Woman faked miscarriage with ‘animal tissue’

April 22, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

OAKLAND PARK, Fla. (AP) — Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff’s Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at an Oakland Park apartment. Upon arrival, they learned a woman staged the incident using what authorities described only as “animal tissue.”…
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Man passes out from coughing, causing NH crash

April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

BOW, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a man driving a pickup truck in New Hampshire had a coughing fit and lost consciousness, leading to a fiery crash. WMUR-TV reported the truck crashed on Interstate 93 in Bow, N.H., on Monday morning. Emergency workers said the driver had a coughing fit and lost consciousness. His pickup truck went off the highway, hit a pole and then caught fire….
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Porterhouse sizzles at bulldog beauty contest

April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Offbeat News · Comment 

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For three years, Porterhouse was so close to the title he could drool on it. Now, the Beautiful Bulldog crown is his to slobber on for the rest of the year. After two runner-up finishes and one “Mr. Congeniality” title, Porterhouse finally nabbed “top dog” honors Monday when he was crowned the winner of Drake University’s annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest in downtown Des Moines….
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