Reuters - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday.
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| Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet (AP) |
| AP - 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. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart. Read more... |
| Woman wins $2.4 million on her first trip to Las Vegas (AP) |
| AP - A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. That's because Jessica Agbunag won $2.4 million on Wednesday at a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at the California Hotel and Casino. Read more... |
| Octogenarian charged with dealing pain pills (AP) |
| AP - Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers. The arrest followed a raid on a home Monday by the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement. Read more... |
| Warrant, cocaine lead to job seeker's arrest (AP) |
| AP - 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. Police also found cocaine in his pocket. The company the man was applying to required a police background check. Read more... |
| Dog hits controls, drives van into coffee house (AP) |
| AP - A dog left inside a running van put the vehicle in drive, causing it to crash into a Long Island coffee house. Suffolk County police said no one was injured in the incident, which damaged the glass window and some patio furniture at Cool Beanz coffee shop in St. James. Read more... |
| Lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia (Reuters) |
| Reuters - A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologized on Tuesday for overreacting. Read more... |
| Manual issued to stop forced marriages (Reuters) |
| Reuters - The Paris City Hall launched a manual on forced marriages on Wednesday to help officials spot and prevent cases of young women being coerced into matrimony. Read more... |
| Farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial (Reuters) |
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| Top anti-drink cop caught drunk driving (Reuters) |
| Reuters - A senior Tokyo police official tasked with keeping the city's roads clear of drunk drivers has been arrested for driving under the influence, police said on Tuesday. Read more... |
| Parliament picks bomb hoaxer as speaker (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Lithuania's newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel. Read more... |
| Obese have right to 2 airline seats (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. Read more... |
| Sumo-Happy hunter Asashoryu plots New Year ring return (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Volatile grand champion Asashoryu will not return to the ring until the New Year despite being fit enough to hunt and cook wild animals in the Mongolian mountains. Read more... |
| Gaffe-prone Japan PM apologises over doctor remark (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso apologised Wednesday for appearing to insult doctors, an important political interest group, by saying many of them lack common sense. Read more... |
| General and daughter enjoy Thai-style family feud (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Thailand's three-year political crisis has divided friends and families, but few can have felt the strain as much as the Sawadipol clan. Read more... |
| Kangaroo genes close to humans (Reuters) |
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| Man accused of getting SUV stuck on edge of cliff (AP) |
| AP - 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. The man was charged with felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence. Read more... |
| China farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial (Reuters) |
| Reuters - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday. Read more... |
| Mass. cops puzzled by butcher-quality meat chunks (AP) |
| AP - Police are trying to figure out who keeps leaving chunks of meat on the town common, and why. Police said residents have been finding butcher-quality cuts of meat on the common for about five weeks. In the most recent incident, a resident discovered a large piece of raw, unwrapped meat, along with what appeared to be a liver and some bones on Tuesday. Read more... |
| World's oldest polar bear dies at Canadian zoo (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Canadian zoo officials on Tuesday were mourning the death of what is believed to be the world's oldest polar bear. Read more... |
| NY couple, trucker help injured butterfly migrate (AP) |
| AP - 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. Read more... |
