A Hillsboro man sure picked the wrong time and place to ‘moon’ someone. On Sunday morning, just after midnight, an Oregon State Police trooper says he spotted a man standing in the eastbound lane of Highway 224, about 15 miles east of Estacada. The man had his pants down around his ankles and was...
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A suburban man arrested on charges of choking his wife was given one phone call from the Maywood lockup. Janusz Owca used it to call his wife — and threaten to kill her, Cook County sheriff’s police said. The 32-year-old Maine Township man is facing charges of aggravated domestic battery and felony intimidation. Owca’s...
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A 31-year-old Utah man has been sentenced to six months in jail for fondling a maternity nurse who was wheeling the man’s pregnant girlfriend to the delivery room. Second District Court Judge Scott Hadley sentenced Adam Manning of Bountiful to 180 days in the Weber County Jail. Manning pleaded guilty in June to a...
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A man was arrested with his own handcuffs after flagging down a deputy to help get them off. The sheriff’s office reports that 25-year-old Shawn Martines chased down a deputy’s patrol car on his bike Tuesday night, hoping the deputy would take off the cuffs. Martines told the deputy that he allowed a woman...
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Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued...
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On her first trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP oil spill, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged Americans to consider vacationing on the region’s beaches that have not been directly impacted by oil. “It is vacation time. Folks are looking for things to do with their kids, and this would be a great...
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Two men were busted Thursday night after they ran from a car loaded with cocaine – straight into a monthly police dog training exercise at a local junior high school. Fife police say the drama began when officers were working an anti-prostitution detail in the 3400 block of Pacific Highway East. The officers noticed...
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Detroit School Board President, Otis Mathis apologized, said he needs help but also said he wants to take back his resignation. Mathis is accused of touching and fondling himself in front on General Superintendent Theresa Gueyser. She says it happened several times in private school related meetings between the two of them. Friday Mathis...
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A family of eight suffered serious carbon monoxide poisoning last night after firing up a barbecue inside their house. A 13-month-old baby became ill and the family called an ambulance. All eight family members were taken by ambulance to the Launceston General Hospital and five were transferred early this morning to the Royal Hobart...
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The U.S. government agency that prints passports has for years failed to resolve persistent concerns about the security risks involved in outsourcing production to foreign factories, a joint investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity has found. “On a number of levels this is extremely troubling,” said Clark Kent Ervin, a...
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