Updated: November 21, 2008 1:53:18 AM PST | | COVINGTON, La.—R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did.
Full Story DES MOINES, Iowa—Her husband just signed a smoking ban into law in April. Now Iowa first lady Mari Culver admits she already broke it.
Full Story BILLINGS, Mont.—A 21-year-old man was accused of getting his vehicle stuck on the edge of the Rimrocks in Billings with a passenger passed out inside.
Full Story GREELEY, Colo.—A Catholic priest convicted of indecent exposure for jogging naked around a track at a high school has been sentenced to five years probation.
Full Story HONOLULU—A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy.
Full Story JACKSON, Mich.—A mid-Michigan man who'd been looking for work found trouble after an arrest warrant popped up during a background check at a police station.
Full Story COVINGTON, La.—A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn—hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor.
Full Story LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y.—A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama.
Full Story FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Police are trying to figure out who keeps leaving chunks of meat on the town common, and why.
Full Story FAIRBANKS, Alaska—Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers.
Full Story ST. JAMES, N.Y.—A dog left inside a running van put the vehicle in drive, causing it to crash into a Long Island coffee house.
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SEOUL, South Korea—Thousands donned aprons and hair nets Thursday outside Seoul's City Hall in a bid to make the world's biggest batch of kimchi, the spicy pickled cabbage that is Korea's best-known dish.
Full Story BLOOMFIELD, Ind.—Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.
Full Story PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—A Florida man is accused of tossing a sandwich at his girlfriend as they cruised down an interstate, knocking off her glasses and nearly causing her to lose control of the car.
Full Story NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Thieves may have to take an awkward trip to the confessional. A bronze statue of the Virgin Mary was lifted from a Catholic church in Newport Beach.
Full Story DUBLIN, Ga.—He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name.
Full Story BLOOMFIELD, Ind.—Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.
Full Story DALLAS—Police are looking for an irate pet lover so intent on liberating his lost cat that he wielded a bat to fend off animal shelter employees.
Full Story BERLIN—Time to fire up the grill. German boar hunters are reporting one of their best seasons since World War II as moderate weather and plentiful food have led to a wild pig population boom.
Full Story ATTLEBORO, Mass.—A 74-year-old blind woman's 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled.
Full Story VIENNA, Austria—An oversize skull with a built-in sauna is turning heads in the Austrian capital.
Full Story BOSTON—An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old Weymouth man told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday.
Full Story DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa zoo has recaptured a flamingo that flew over a Des Moines neighborhood, a golf course and the entire zoo during a 7-hour freedom flight.
Full Story PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—A man faces a domestic battery charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich as she was driving on Interstate 95 on Friday.
Full Story SAN BENITO, Texas—A newly elected constable was questioned by sheriff's deputies after allowing a friend to fire his county-issued handgun into the air at a party.
Full Story VIENNA, Austria—Cabs in the Austrian city of Salzburg just got classier: Drivers can no longer wear tracksuits.
Full Story PADUCAH, Ky.—Chad Toy's escape from jail wasn't what shocked his jailers; it was his plea to be let back in.
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LEWISTON, Maine—Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining.
Full Story ATTLEBORO, Mass.—A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill.
Full Story MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.—Authorities on Florida's east coast have arrested a man in a wheelchair who they say robbed a credit union on Merritt Island and hid the money in his prosthetic leg.
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