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No, that's not a penis pump, Mom. Really Wed Aug 23, 4:12 PM ET CHICAGO - Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn't want her to know he'd packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey. So he told security it was a bomb, officials said. Madin Azad Amin was stopped by officials on Aug. 16 after guards found an object in his baggage that resembled a grenade, prosecutors said. When officers asked him to identify it, Amin said it was a bomb, said Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto. He later...

Suspect At Large BEAVERTON, Ore. -- A man recovering from a weekend shooting spoke exclusively with KOIN News 6. Beaverton police say Clifton King was among a group partying early Sunday at the Pierson Place apartments on Southwest Allen. He was smoking outside when a white Honda pulled up. Three men got out, started fighting, and several shots were fired into the air. King was hit in the shoulder as he ran up the stairs. "It was just warm, tingly. I looked at it and thought, 'I think I've been shot,'" King told KOIN News 6, showing off this bullet...

Victim in trouble after reporting stolen pot Web Posted: 07/25/2005 11:09 AM CDT Marvin Hurst KENS 5 Eyewitness News He was the victim of a home invasion, but he's the one who's in trouble with the law this morning. That's because of the marijuana that the robbery suspects were after last night in the 3900 block of Fredericksburg Road. Police say the victim and his girlfriend waited 30 to 40 minutes before calling police about their stolen pot. According to police, the invaders knocked on the front door. When the victim opened it, they pulled a gun and started demanding...

Albany-- On July 6th at 9:15AM, the 911 center in Albany got a shocking call. Wendal Nason, Jr. needed an ambulance because he had just severed his right foot with a circular saw - intentionally. His conversation with the 911 dispatcher reveals why he did it. 911: Which foot did you cut? Nason: The right foot. Cut it clean off. 911: Oh, Jesus. How did you do it? Nason: With a Skil saw.

CHICAGO - A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq persuaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit by random gang gunfire, authorities said. The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernandez from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said. He was charged with filing a false police report. His cousin, Juan Hernandez, 19, faces a felony weapons charge.

Denver - A mother of three was declared brain dead after a road-rage accident that occurred early this morning as her family headed home from a Fourth of July celebration. Alicia Arana, 26, was thrown from a pickup truck driven by her common-law husband, Jesus Manuel Cruz Sr., 28. Family members say the driver of a silver Dodge Intrepid forced the family into oncoming traffic. Police say both drivers collided, sending both vehicles spinning out of control and the pick-up truck into oncoming traffic. "I was called early this morning and told that my sister was in a car accident...

MADISON, Wis. -- A man is listed in critical condition after trying to kill his head lice Saturday night. The 26-year-old doused a towel with rubbing alcohol, put it on his head and then lit a cigarette, police said. The towel caught fire and engulfed the man. He suffered burns on about 50 percent of his body, police said. He was renting a room with a friend at King's Inn Motel on the West Beltline, police said. He is in the burn unit with second- and third-degree burns.

Mother, Daughter Burned When Head Lice Solution Catches Fire POSTED: 12:30 pm EDT June 22, 2005 LANSING, Mich. -- A Michigan mother and daughter are hospitalized in critical condition after a homemade head lice solution for the girl caught fire. The Lansing State Journal says both suffered severe burns. Police say the four-year-old girl had burns to 60 percent of her body. Another child in the house escaped injury. No word on what type of liquid the mother was using.

FOREST GROVE, Ore. - A photo released by police shows the predicament an 18-year-old got himself into when he tried to make a run for it and ended up impaled on a wrought iron fence. The incident happened last Thursday when a teenager under arrest for assault tried to flee police as he was about to be transported in a patrol car. The teenager, who has since been identified as Cody Carlson, bolted from the car and tried to vault the fence with his hands cuffed behind his back. Firefighters ended up having to cut out a section of the...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli man angry with his wife over money matters set fire to three million shekels (680,000 dollars) on the lawn of his affluent suburban home. After reaching the end of his tether in the marital spat, he had opened the family safe, taken out fistsful of bank notes, stuffed them in sacks and dragged them outside, said the online edition of Yediot Aharonot on Wednesday. "In 36 years, I have seen nothing like it," one fireman was quoted as saying after four fire engines hurtled through Rehovot, near Tel Aviv, following reports of someone trying...

A 46-year-old Kane County resident allegedly set his own home on fire in order to get two visitors to leave, police said. Dean Craig was charged with felony arson after allegedly splashing rubbing alcohol on the floor of the two-story home in Aurora Township and using a lighter to ignite the fire around 1 a.m. Sunday, the Kane County Sheriff's office said. When authorities arrived at Craig's home, which is owned by his mother, it was engulfed in flames, police said. Craig and his two guests were not injured. Craig allegedly had asked two visitors to leave, but when they...

A man is in hospital recovering from non-life threatening injuries, the day after he leapt off the roof of a 40-storey downtown Calgary building. Police say a 41-year-old man wearing a parachute jumped from the roof of the TD Canada Trust building shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday night. Partway through his descent, at the building's 24th floor to be precise, he smashed into a window. "He was then out of control coming down to the ground and landed on the atrium on the fifth floor smashing out the window on the fifth floor," police Sgt. Mike Lomore told CTV's Calgary...

CINCINNATI -- A 911 dispatcher faces discipline and a mother who made a frantic call for help says she was outraged by the dispatcher's response. The mother called to report the family's pit bull had attacked her 18-month-old boy. The operator quickly dispatched an emergency crew, but she's in trouble for calling the mother and her husband "stupid people," News 5's Juliette Vara reported. "Like I was to blame, I'm worthless, a no-good mom or something," said the mother, Samantha Osborne. Osborne said the dog, called JD, had never been aggressive in 10 years with the family. "He was good...

The Irish priest who disrupted the Olympic marathon last year has vowed to ignore the Vatican's decision to remove him from the priesthood. Neil Horan, a native of Kerry who lives in London, sparked outrage last summer when he accosted the Brazilian athlete who was leading the Athens marathon. He had previously run out in front of 200mph Formula One cars at the British Grand Prix in Silverstone to highlight his belief that the second coming of Jesus is nigh. Horan had not carried out official church duties since 1994 and was formally defrocked by Pope John Paul II yesterday....