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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...

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...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Authorities said a man faces charges after a sheriff's deputy stopped a truck and found all the passengers completely naked. Officials said a sheriff's deputy responded to a report of a suspicious pickup truck east of Lincoln. The deputy said he stopped the truck to question...

State police in Pennsylvania are trying to track down a mummy. Law enforcement officials say a man entered an Exxon Buy N' Fly mini-mart in the village of Herminie on Feb. 21 with a hatchet in his hand and dark cloth wrapped around his face like a mummy. No one was injured in the robbery...

Two West Virginia cousins are in the Somerset County Prison awaiting a hearing on charges they were caught with a car full of stolen beef jerky Wednesday evening. Channel 4 Action News' Jennifer Miele reported Chief Randy Cox said the men were pulled over in the 100 block of Plank Road in...

A 36-year-old Columbia man was stabbed in a downtown alley last night when he confronted a man for urinating on his dog. Link Removed - Invalid URL Columbia police arrested Deanthony L. Weir of 500 W. Ash St. seven minutes after officers were dispatched to the scene, according to a...

HOUSTON -- A Houston-area man has been arrested and charged with brutally attacking his 33-year-old estranged wife, who survived a 17-hour ordeal in which she was tortured and mutilated. Link Removed due to 404 Error Harris County sheriff's officials said Gregoria Longoria Jr., 39...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Despite being sprayed with mace, the owner of a Carlsbad pizzeria and an employee still managed to stop a suspect, put him in a headlock and deliver a pizza. Employees had just put the last pizza in the oven at Paradise Pizza on Wednesday night when a suspect entered the...

Malaysian police have arrested three suspects involved in the heist of some 725,000 condoms, which have not yet been found. Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, the police chief of Malaysia's northern Perak state, says the heist was "an inside job." He said Friday the suspects work for the firm...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error PHOENIX (Reuters) – In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.. The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of...

Drug-Smuggling Pigeon Caught in Colombia Colombian authorities say they have captured a pigeon that was being used to smuggle drugs into a prison. Guards became suspicious after spotting a bird with a package on its back near the prison in Bucaramanga, in the north of the country, The...

Naked Tourist Richard Gervasi Blocks Traffic in Florida, Gets Shot With Taser He might be the king of the world, but police say this emperor needs new clothes. A tourist was shot with a taser three times by Florida police after he allegedly got naked and blocked traffic in Big Coppitt...

Wisconsin Woman Finds $280K of Drugs in Vacuum GREEN BAY, Wis. - A Green Bay, Wis., woman opened a Christmas present from her children to find a refurbished vacuum - and a load of drugs. Authorities say the woman found 2 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of cocaine...

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/14/woman-accused-of-stashing-fur-coat-in-her-underwear/ Police in Bloomington, Minn., say a shoplifter snatched a $6,500 fur coat -- then hid it between her legs in a pair of barely-there underwear for three days while she was in jail. As an accomplice...

Austin Police: Drunken Cowboys Arrested on Horse and Donkey You can lead a horseback-riding cowboy to a watering hole, but you can't make him drink responsibly. Police in Austin, Texas, arrested two men on charges of drunken driving after they allegedly blocked traffic on East Sixth Street...

While Google seems ok with handing over information to advertisers, it is less keen to help a couple get back their stolen caravan. Street View cameras might help Derbyshire police solve a crime which may have been captured by Google's cameras. However the search engine is saying that it will...

Man survives after been shot 21 times by police (August 2010) A 23-year-old man is counting his luck today after he survived being shot 21 times by police. Armed officers were involved in a shoot-out with the 23-year old named as Angel Alvarez at a New York street party. It’s claimed that...

MANATEE — A search of a 25-year-old man following a traffic stop Wednesday morning revealed one bag of marijuana and one bag of cocaine in the driver’s buttocks, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. The driver said only the marijuana belonged to him. Raymond Stanley Roberts was...

Woman robs bank inside Spokane grocery store Link Removed The woman left with an undisclosed amount of cash after threatening a teller at Banner Bank in Safeway, 933 E. Mission Ave., about 1:25 p.m., police said. She’s described as a white, 45 to 50, 5-foot-5 and heavy set with red hair and...

In early March, Anthony Graber, a 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard, was humming a tune while riding his two-year-old Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95, not far from his home north of Baltimore. On top of his helmet was a camera he often used to record his...