Reuters - Police used CS spray to subdue a man in a restricted House of Commons corridor when he became violent after leaving a drinks reception, Scotland Yard said on Tuesday. The unnamed man, who did not have a Westminster pass, had been at Conservative Party event for journalists on Monday evening.
AP - No matter how frustrating taxes get, it’s not a good idea to threaten to do a drive-by shooting at the state Department of Revenue. Authorities charged man with two counts of terroristic threats after he got upset and allegedly told a Department of Revenue supervisor he was going to do a drive-by shooting.
AP - The staff dietitian at a doctors group is asking the West Michigan Whitecaps to put a warning label on the enormous new hamburger that it’s selling this season. Susan Levin of the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sent a letter to the Grand Rapids minor-league team on Tuesday. She’s asking that the […]
AP - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by […]
AP - Who hasn’t secretly wished they could pin the blame on their boss? Or slam office equipment against the pavement? Dozens of unemployed people got the chance to do exactly that during the homespun, tongue-in-cheek Unemployment Olympics at Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park on Tuesday.
AP - An explosive found in a dead man’s basement led to an Arkansas police station being evacuated. Officers said a Hot Springs man walked into police headquarters Monday and placed a World War II-era “pineapple” grenade on the front desk. Officers evacuated the headquarters for more than an hour as police worked to safely […]
AP - A man who previously kept dead animals in cold storage and dozens more living in filthy conditions in a Dallas home was under investigation Monday after police found almost two dozen cats in his suburban motel room. Plano police stopped the man on Sunday and found he had outstanding warrants for animal cruelty […]
AP - A judge sentenced a man to 295 days in jail on Monday for pouring bleach on a woman during an argument last year. Darnell McCray pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and child neglect. According to police, McCray and the woman were arguing on Nov. 9, and McCray grabbed a […]
AP - A woman was charged with swiping a state trooper with her Mercedes SUV as he tried to write her a ticket at Boston’s Logan Airport on Tuesday. The trooper was not hurt. The woman pleaded not guilty Monday to assault and battery on a police officer and assault with a dangerous weapon. She […]
Reuters - German police are struggling to explain why they chased a phantom serial killer for 16 years after confusion over an innocent woman’s DNA samples.