School sued over girl's socks
2007-03-21 13:51:12
A seventh-grader might end up in court for wearing Winnie the Pooh socks to school. Toni Kay Scott, 14, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems last year for violating a dress code, according to a lawsuit against the Napa Valley Unified School District and Redwood Middle School.
Cyclist, 81, hunts down shoplifter
2007-03-21 10:31:34
An 81-year-old Dutchman who saw a shoplifter flee a supermarket in The Hague chased after the thief on his bike and crashed into the man to stop him.
First class flight with corpse
2007-03-20 09:49:36
A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight.
Coca-Cola should drop 'coca'
2007-03-16 14:21:52
Always Coca-Cola? Not if Bolivia's coca growers have their way. The farmers want the word "Coca" dropped by the US soft drink company, arguing that the potent shrub belongs to the cultural heritage of this Andean nation, where the coca leaf infuses everyday life and is sacred to many.
Something good about being old
2007-03-16 10:05:51
A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount for sex in the afternoon.
Serial lingerie thief arrested
2007-03-14 20:49:47
Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women's underwear.
Couple find faceless dollar coin
2007-03-14 11:19:51
Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either. A week after the revelation that some of the coins slipped out of the US Mint without "In God We Trust" stamped on the edge, the Smiths said Tuesday they found one with nothing stamped on either flat side.
Man beats up woman, 101
2007-03-14 10:16:16
Here's a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York.
Indian Woman weds corpse
2007-03-13 17:04:44
An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
Raccoon back on the menu
2007-03-13 16:58:54
After a four-year absence, raccoon is back on the menu for the Hibernia Community Building's annual fundraiser.
Ants test nonviolence of monks
2007-03-12 14:53:12
Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects.
Invasion of the body-snatchers
2007-03-12 13:54:09
Gunmen stormed into a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the buried corpse of a suspected drug gang hitman killed days earlier in a shootout.