A man has been convicted of catching, killing and eating what may have been the last wild Indochinese tiger in China. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla in the southwestern Yunnan Province, got a 12-year sentence and was fined a total of 580,000 including compensation to the state for economic losses. He had denied the [...]
January 3, 2010
KERRVILLE, Texas — Prosecutors planned to review the case of a woman authorities claim has called 911 30 times over six months for non-emergency reasons, including a call to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner. The woman allegedly made a pair of calls to 911, including a hang-up and another where a [...]
December 22, 2009
ATHENS, Ga. – Athens-Clarke police are looking for a woman who destroyed $1,000 worth of perfume at a store after being told she couldn’t return items without a receipt. The Athens Banner-Herald reported Monday that police said the woman pushed over a large plastic display stand holding several hundred sample-size bottles of perfume that cost [...]
December 21, 2009
TYLER, Texas — A 25-year-old man suspected of breaking into an East Texas house is jailed after police found him taking a bath in the house. The incident happened about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in a blue-collar neighborhood of Northwest Tyler. Police Sgt. Matthew Smyser said a resident called to report that a man had kicked [...]
November 27, 2009
Sometimes wrongdoers outsmart police. And then there are those suspects who make cops’ jobs a whole lot easier. Here are seven recent examples of how to do that: 1. Wear a stolen state trooper’s watch. OK, Angel Cruz, 54, of Philadelphia, couldn’t have known he was breaking into a trooper’s personal car at a T.G.I.Friday’s [...]
November 17, 2009
SEATTLE — An aspiring ninja learned the hard way that he isn’t able to jump a 5-foot fence. Seattle police said an officer checking out a report of an assault in the 600 block of 7th Avenue late Monday came across a man impaled on top of a metal fence, screaming for help. Firefighters pulled [...]
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