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A man awoke to more than a clatter Sunday morning: a wayward car flying into his bedroom and crushing him in his own bed. "It hit the outside bedroom wall, continued through the bedroom, over the bed and partially exited through the side wall," Pine Bluff Lt. Bob Rawlinson said. "The guy was pinned under the car and rolled up in the mattress." Police say Devlon Chandler, 34, of Pine Bluff and his wife Arninitra were traveling home from a casino in Greenville, Miss., when he fell asleep at the wheel. Police say the couple's car left the road, traveled...

ABANDONED CISTERN WAS UNDER STRUCTURE CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU McAFEE -- When Lela Stewart heard a noise late Monday night, she thought her cat had accidentally overturned something. No shelves were disturbed so she looked in the garage -- and discovered her new Ford Escape at the bottom of a 10-foot-deep hole. The garage's concrete floor had collapsed into an abandoned cistern. "I go to the door and open it and there's a big puff of smoke, which was concrete dust," Stewart said. "I just put my face in my hands and went, 'This can't be happening.'" Stewart, who has lived...

A 73-year-old Victorian farmer was killed when his ute rolled over his head as he tried to retrieve a load of strawberries. Police believe the man walked behind the vehicle to pick up some of the fruit that fell from a tray. The accident happened near the corner of Wonga and Warranwood roads at Warranwood, near the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood, shortly before noon (AEST). When he got out to pick up the strawberries, the ute rolled backwards over him, a Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) spokeswoman said. "Our paramedics arrived and tried to revive him, but unfortunately he died at...

Security cameras capture a lot of strange things, but a security camera at a Buffalo car wash caught something that’s almost spooky. A truck sits in the shop with the engine off. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, it bursts into flames. And if that's not weird enough, just before the fire appears the lights turn on for a while and then flicker. The videotape shows exactly how the fire started. A 1998 Chevy K-1500 pickup, freshly detailed, just sits in the shop, with no one around. At 10:48 p.m. the headlights turn on, 26 minutes later, they shut...

<p>NEWPORT, Ind. -- About 30 gallons of a liquid containing a deadly Cold War-era nerve agent spilled at an Indiana chemical weapons depot, but it was safely contained in a sealed area and no one was injured, the Army said Saturday.</p>

TOKYO (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house. Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the fire in January was caused by a spark generated when the urine soaked the machine's electrical printing mechanism. The fire damaged the kitchen and living room before it was put out by the house's owner, who was treated for mild smoke inhalation, said Masahito Oyabu, a fireman at the Nagata fire station in central Kobe. The kittens quickly ran to...

A 17-year-old who had been drinking with friends for most of the day Monday fell off the side of a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Myrtle Beach after he lost his balance while attempting to do a head stand on the railing, authorities said. Ryan Chmielewski of Lexington suffered assorted injuries, including a fractured vertebrae and dislocated shoulder, and was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center after the accident at 10:45 p.m. A nursing supervisor Tuesday said he was in serious condition. Though Chmielewski - whose fall was broken by bushes, police said - does not face any charges, two...

SUDBURY, ONTARIO-June 8, 2005 — Allyson Lace will have to serve 30 more days in jail for grabbing her fiance where it hurts. Prosecutors in Sudbury, Ontario, charge Lace and her fiance got into an argument. After kicking, punching and scratching him, prosecutors say she grabbed him by the testicles. According to authorities, the fiance had to whack Lace over the head with his arm cast to make her let go. Police say the woman also kicked the inside of a police cruiser and struck an officer in the eye. She's pleaded guilty to a number of charges, after being...

A man called Yuri hammered a 12-cm nail into his head. He survived a ghastly experience "The patient was brought to our hospital by ambulance, he was accompanied by his mother who told us that the man had a mental disorder and the nail had been driven into his head by himself," says Yuri Tanvel, a doctor with neurosurgical ward of a local hospital. Mr. Tanvel has seen patients with various head injuries before. But he never saw a nail head sticking out of the cranium. The doctor was even more surprised to find the 37-year-old patient fully conscious. Without...

Retired Man Was Working As A Favor WHITLEY, Ky. -- Investigators are trying to determine what caused the tailgate of a dump truck to give way, burying a Kentucky man under hot asphalt and killing him. The accident happened in Whitley on Monday, Louisville, Ky., television station WLKY reported. McCreary County Pastor Jimmy Tucker was killed. Tucker recently retired from a construction company, but was working one more week as a favor, WLKY reported. He was looking at the back of another truck that had broken down when the gate opened, causing up to 10 tons of asphalt to fall...

Man's Leg Falls Out Of Plane And Lands In N.Y. Backyard June 8, 2005 NEW YORK -- The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighborhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said. Pam Hearne heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the...

EXPLOSION: Marlena Adams was engulfed in fire, is accused of trying to make the drug. PALMER -- Everyone agrees that 24-year-old Marlena Adams scorched about half her body in September 2003 when the ingredients for methamphetamine exploded in her oven.

PLEASANTON - A 21-year-old was listed in fair condition this morning after sustaining third- and fourth-degree burns to an arm, hand and part of his face Thursday night when a device that refines hashish from marijuana ignited a nearby water heater, causing an explosion that rattled windows throughout a Stoneridge Drive apartment complex. Police Lt. Mark Senkle said that Ethan King was taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's burn unit in San Jose after the 9:10 p.m. explosion, at 3970 Stoneridge Drive in eastern Pleasanton. Police received a number of calls about the explosion, which occurred in the bathroom...

An Aspen, Colo., businessman was forced to abandon his office Thursday after a black bear walked in. "I screamed at him and he freaked out and ran out of the office," Sam Green is quoted as saying in Friday's editions of the Aspen Daily News. Green, a property manager at Aspen Club Condominiums, said he called police, who found the bear sitting a nearby pine tree. "If it's in a tree we just leave him alone," safety officer Rick Magnuson told the newspaper. Green estimated that the bear was about 2 years old

Walla Walla, Washington -- Golfers had an additional hazard to deal with on the third hole at Veterans Memorial Golf Course. A female moose had settled under a tree along the third hole Tuesday. . . .

Morgantown, W.Va. -- A Pennsylvania man injured when a portable toilet exploded is suing a general contractor and a coal company for negligence. John Jenkins, 53, and his wife Ramona Jenkins, 35, of Brave, Pa., filed the lawsuit in Monongalia County Circuit Court on Tuesday. They are suing Chisler Inc., a general contractor from Fairview, and Eastern Associated Coal Corp. for $10 million in damages. The explosion occurred July 13, 2004, at Parrish Shaft in Blacksville. Jenkins, a North West Fuels Development Inc. methane power plant operator, entered a portable toilet, sat down and tried to light a cigarette. "When...

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Police believe an upstate man found suffering from severe burns was injured when he tried to burn off the tracking device attached to his ankle. Witnesses told authorities they spotted 25-year-old Jason McClaskey engulfed in flames on the porch of his home in Glens Falls early yesterday morning. When emergency crews arrived, they found smoldering clothes in the yard and McClaskey inside the house in extreme pain. He's being treated at the burn unit at Westchester Medical Center with burns over 60 percent of his body. Police say McClaskey was wearing the monitor after being convicted on...

SULLIVAN, N.Y. (AP) - Car owners around town are covering their mirrors in an attempt to outsmart a woodpecker who apparently thinks his reflection is an enemy. Tim Taylor, who owns Thruway Auto Glass, said he replaced 30 smashed mirrors last year and 18 this year because of the bird, which has claimed this area east of Syracuse as his territory. "People come in pretty mad. One guy's been in here three times already because he keeps forgetting to cover up the mirrors," Taylor said. During breeding season, male woodpeckers aggressively defend their turf, even against imaginary foes, said bird-watcher...

CRYSTAL BEACH - A Houston man died after he apparently fell asleep beneath his pickup on the beach and the truck trapped him as it settled in the sand, the Galveston County Sheriff's Department reported.John Raymond Wilson, 37, of the 2000 block of Fenwick, had been surf fishing near Voit on Monday night, sheriff's Lt. Tommy Hansen said."It appears he may have been fishing, that he got under the truck to lay down, and it sank and got on top of him and he couldn't get out," Hansen said.Witnesses pegged Wilson's arrival at the scene about 9 p.m. Monday, about...

Sex in car man loses licence The Romanian man who crashed his car while his girlfriend gave him oral sex has lost his licence for 90 days. Robert Filip, 19, who was naked when police arrived at the scene, must also pay for the damage to the car he hit. Police say Filip, 19, and his girlfriend Andrea Popescu, 18, were so carried away that they even continued in front of spectators after the crash. Filip apparently lost control of his car after forgetting to turn right on a curve and ploughing into a parked car in the city centre...