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Man Jailed In Thailand For Negative Hotel Review

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Of all the forms of protest in Mexico, taking over highway toll booths is one of the odder and more lucrative. Protesters take over the booths for a few hours and charge motorists

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A neighbor called deputies on some rabid Tampa Bay Lightning fans who were screaming “shoot! shoot!” as they watched Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final on television Wednesday night. Several Hillsborough County

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass. A news release from Arkansas State Parks says

NEW YORK (AP) — Three railroad workers have been suspended for turning a storage room under New York’s Grand Central Terminal into an unauthorized “man cave” with a television, a refrigerator, a microwave and a futon couch.

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BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four former eBay employees have agreed to plead guilty to their roles in sending live spiders and cockroaches in an effort to intimidate a Massachusetts couple who ran an online newsletter

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — A woman in Mississippi received a slithering surprise when she got home from work last week: a snake that had been lodged on top of her front door landed on her head. Enterprise-Journal

MORGANTON, N.C. (AP) — A group of mountain bikers on a North Carolina trail spotted a dog trapped 30 feet down in a sinkhole — and it took a salty snack and some straps to lift him

Associated Press undefined ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in Florida say a man caught on surveillance footage is suspected of stealing cat blood from a veterinary clinic. St. Johns County Sheriff’s officials say the theft

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials say a wild brown bear broke into the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage and killed Caesar, a popular male alpaca. Zoo executive director Patrick Lampi says the bear

MASON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one local elections official. The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says,

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Sportsmanship is an international language

The brain appeared to be from an animal that was wrapped in foil

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) — After 13 years, a South Florida city has overturned a ban on “saggy pants” — bottoms that reveal the wearer’s underwear. The Opa-locka City Commission voted Wednesday on a 4-1 vote to repeal

DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — Musicians in the German city of Dresden have taken to the roofs of apartment blocs with alphorns to perform a concert featuring distant harmonies at a time when cultural events have been disrupted

MIAMI (AP) — Official says customs officers at a Florida airport found nearly a half-million dollars being smuggled out of the United States hidden inside furniture. U.S. Custom and Border Protection said in a news release that

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A drone carrying marijuana, cigarette lighters and cellphones got caught up in a net above a Mississippi prison fence, resulting in the arrest of two men. State corrections officials said in a news

MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — An exotic African serval cat that escaped from its New Hampshire home earlier this week has been found safe and sound. Merrimack police in a Facebook post Friday say the 40-pound creature named

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dog has been credited with saving an Alabama family’s lives after his bark awakened them to a fire that was sweeping through their rental home. A North Shelby Fire Department official told

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — The mayor of a Connecticut city says he will follow through on what was originally a tongue-in-cheek threat to name a sewage plant after comedian John Oliver if Oliver attends the plant’s naming

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland investigating reports of a casket photographed bobbing up and down in a river discovered the object was something far less macabre. A post to a local radio station’s Facebook page

By PAUL RHYS Associated Press MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Sweden’s Disgusting Food Museum is opening a three-month temporary exhibit this weekend with revolting alcohol. The exhibits include an Icelandic beer made with whale testicle that’s been smoked

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile-swim by reaching a sandy shore in France after darkness fell. Vera Rivard, of Springfield, left Dover in the

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they are losing hope of finding out who left on a train a box of vials with hamster DNA that caused alarm in the southwestern town of Heidelberg last week. Federal

NORTH CATASAUQUA, Pa. (AP) — Police say it didn’t take much legwork to track down a man who ran off with the tip jar at an eastern Pennsylvania pizza shop. They say 22-year-old Nicholas M. Mark had

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian returned home and was surprised to discover that his kitchen ceiling had collapsed under the weight of two large pythons apparently fighting over a potential mate. David Tait found a large

DARWIN, Australia (AP) — Wildlife rangers have trapped a 14 1/2-foot saltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia’s Northern Territory, the biggest caught in the area in years. Wildlife ranger John Burke said Monday that the 770-pound

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating reports from airline pilots that someone was flying in what appeared to be a jetpack as the planes approached Los Angeles International Airport for landings