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A man arrested for keeping an alligator in his kitchen has told police he did it because the reptile impressed women. Police raided a property in Ford Heights, Illinois after receiving a tip-off that Dewayne Yarbrough had an alligator in his home. It is not clear who the information came...

Link Removed due to 404 Error MOONACHIE — A substitute teacher from Rutherford was arrested Friday and charged with engaging in sexual conduct with an eighth-grade student from the Robert L. Craig School in Moonachie, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Patricia Gallegos...

A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she...

Ryan Stephens has been charged with teasing Timber the police dog after he was found barking and hissing at the animal. The 25-year-old claimed ‘the dog started it’ when officers asked why he was barking at the K9 dog in a patrol car in Cincinnati, Ohio. Police said he appeared...

Biting your opponent during a brawl may violate the rules of what's considered a fair fight, but it doesn't turn the attack into first-degree assault. The Link Removed - Invalid URL of Appeals has ruled Wednesday that teeth cannot be considered dangerous weapon in a case that grew out of a...

A learner driver attacked his examiner after he refused to accept a cash bribe in exchange for letting her pass. Jin Su reportedly handed the examiner a red envelope which contained between £400 and £500 during her test and said: 'This will be good for you – and for me.' When examiner...

British Airways computer expert Rajib Karim has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to commit a terror attack by planting a bomb on an aeroplane. Karim, 31, had access to Heathrow Airport and wanted to use his position to plant a bomb on a plane. The plan was hatched with...

She stole his foot -- and now she might have to foot the bill. A former Florida paramedic who snatched a man's severed foot from the scene of a car crash is being sued by the victim. Cynthia Economou -- a former St. Lucie County Fire District firefighter and paramedic -- admitted that she...

SCOTTDALE, Pennsylvania — A man left his sleeping 4-year-old son home alone while he went outside and pretended to be a ninja warrior, police say. The Daily Courier of Connellsville reported that Ross Hurst was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police found him dressed...

A man from Connecticut has been left with a rather bizarre mugshot after being arrested for stabbing a man who was braiding his afro. David Davis from Newhaven, in Connecticut, was having his hair done when he allegedly grabbed some scissors, slashed his barber's back and fled the scene...

LONDON (Reuters) – A judge sporting full robes and a wig rugby-tackled a sex offender to the floor to prevent him from fleeing the court where he was on trial, the Press Association reported Tuesday. Judge Douglas Marks Moore, 60, wrestled with 34-year-old Paul Reid as he tried to escape from...

Bird lover Eva Hueber could be forced to pay compensation for 'irresponsible feeding' and might even face prison for the mess the birds caused in the Austrian city of Villach. The property management company on the estate where Ms Hueber lives is taking action for 'many years of irresponsible...

Three men are in court after two allegedly secretly filmed their friend having sex with a woman, before threatening to release the footage if she complained. University of Westminster student George Iaponas, 24, met the victim via social networking site Facebook and she agreed to meet in...

Armed robber Phillip Niere is suing police in Germany after they arrested him with his trousers round his ankles. The 38-year-old was arrested after he threatened to kill five staff at Noris Bank in Aachen, west Germany, if they did not dispense £200,000 to him immediately. He was...

Police in northern Ohio say a man who was asked during a traffic stop whether he'd been drinking took a swig from an open can of beer and told the officer, "Yes." According to Cleveland's WJW-TV, the Elyria police report says 25-year-old Stephen Supers was pulled over early Wednesday because...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Guangfu Zhoa allegedly strangled his girlfriend at the Stamford Town Center February 23, 2011. She retaliated by stabbing him the back. A Stamford couple are facing charges after a dispute over a phone bill lead to a stabbing. The incident started Wednesday...

A Fullerton man who secretly ejaculated twice into an attractive co-worker's water bottle — that she later drank from — was convicted Thursday of two counts of misdemeanor battery. After about two hours of deliberating, the seven-woman, five-man jury also found true a sentencing enhancement...

Link Removed NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- New Orleans police said a man who was shot by his brother was spared serious injury or death when the bullet bounced off his gold tooth. Police said Waltdell Davis, 20, used a .22-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver to shoot his brother, Walter...

Link Removed due to 404 Error SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho library has closed the book on a string of condiment attacks against its book-drop now that the ketchup-wielding criminal has been jailed, a Boise librarian said on Saturday. "We're relieved it's resolved; it's been going...

College Professor Accused of Urinating on Colleague's Door A California university professor videotaped urinating on a colleague's office door may be a scholar, but he's no gentleman, prosecutors say. Tihomir Petrov, a 43-year-old math instructor at California State University...