The Associated Press, Sacramento, California | Tue, 05/14/2013 6:55 AM
Think you’ve heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae
Lopez came up with a new one: Slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking
isn’t allowed.
The Associated Press, Lynn, Massachusetts | Sat, 05/11/2013 6:41 PM
Commissioners at a cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February.
Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery…
The Associated Press, Medford, Oregon | Sat, 05/11/2013 6:37 PM
A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of
Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for
growing season.
The Associated Press, Seattle | Tue, 05/07/2013 8:59 AM
In a sun-deprived part of Washington state, the promise of nice
spring weather prompted a small private school to give students a day
off to enjoy the sunshine.
The Jakarta Post, Semarang | Tue, 04/30/2013 7:00 AM
Railway workers at Poncol station could not believe their eyes when a
locomotive, ready to draw a Jakarta-bound train at dawn on Sunday,
moved off with the drivers nowhere to…
The Jakarta Post, Tampa, Florida | Mon, 04/29/2013 9:11 AM
The idea behind the Tampa Women’s Club charity event was simple. For
US$20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a
one-carat, $5,000 diamond.
The Associated Press, SALEM, OREGON | Sat, 04/20/2013 7:56 AM
A judge noticed an unexpected glow on a juror’s chest while the
courtroom lights were dimmed during video evidence in an armed-robbery
trial. The juror, it seemed, was texting. Marion…
