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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...

WARREN, Mich. — Warren police said a man has been charged after he told a store clerk he didn't have to pay for cigarettes because he was a king. Joseph Lawrence Borowiak is charged with strong-arm robbery and resisting arrest after being accused of threatening a 7-Eleven store clerk on...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Police in Lincoln said a man hopped off with a bunny from a pet store Monday night. A clerk at Pet Doctor on North 66th Street told police a white man in his 40s put a lop-eared Holland bunny worth $60 in his coat and took off. In its place, police said the man left a...

HERMINIE, Pa. — State police in Greensburg are investigating an unusual armed robbery at a Westmoreland County gas station. Trooper Stephen Limani said a man robbed the Buy 'n Fly in Herminie on Monday afternoon after wrapping himself in fabric to conceal his identity. "We're told he...

The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com. The brawl began when the 31-year-old cookie monster confronted her sleeping roommate...

According to a police report, David Goodman said he was attempting to cheer up a 21-year-old female employee of the Wisconsin law firm he was servicing. The 52-year-old explained that the lady in question 'seemed to be stressed out' during a previous visit. Upon realising that the postie...

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...

Police say a Connecticut man called 911 to ask a dispatcher how much trouble he could get into by growing one marijuana plant, then was arrested. Farmington police say a dispatcher told 21-year-old Robert Michelson on Thursday night that he could get arrested for growing pot, and Michelson said...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Cincinnati police investigated the scene of an accident Monday in which a Carthage woman had her arm severed. The 18-year-old red Dodge Caravan the 36-year-old Carthage woman had plopped $600 down for about six months ago was nothing but trouble. So when a...

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...

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...

You don't want to see how sausage gets made -- and you probably don't want to see how this sausage got stolen. Police in Florida arrested a man they say was captured on video stealing sausage naked. Investigators in Estero say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked into the Mariner's Cove Club...

When you've got "Genius" tattooed across your forehead, you've either got a lot to live up to, or you're making a complete fool of yourself. But if you're posing for a police photo, this type of self-assessment is all the more laughable. AOL Weird News dumb crime expert Ben Muessig keeps us...

Police in Virginia have charged a woman with felony counts of maiming livestock for allegedly decapitating one pig and stabbing another. Ashley Marie Fowler, 21, of Portsmouth, has been charged with two felony counts of killing/maiming livestock, one count of misdemeanor vandalism and one...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error British police have arrested a 65-year-old man suspected of forging the signature of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill in books and then attempting to sell them on eBay or directly to buyers. Officers from the...

Link Removed due to 404 Error THIMPHU (Reuters) – A Buddhist monk could face five years in prison after becoming the first casualty of a stringent anti-smoking law in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which vows to become the first smoke-free nation. The monk has been charged with...

Wounded Man Found in Trunk of Car After Fender Bender This was a fender bender with a dark side. When a blue BMW rear-ended a taxicab in New York City on Wednesday morning, it seemed like a routine traffic accident in a crowded city. Then things took a strange twist. The driver of...

The Week in Weird Did last week feel weird to you? No? Because over here, we ran out of room before we could summarize all of it. So far we have flaming zombies, a woman allegedly attacking a police officer with a sex toy, a wheelchair that really captures the spirit of the urban assault...

Link Removed due to 404 Error ATHENS (Reuters) – A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport...