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Actress Angelina Jolie allegedly used her knowledge of the dark art, Voodoo, to lure Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt away from his wife Jennifer Aniston. A friend of Aniston disclosed that Jolie had given Brad a vial which contained some grey powder, that the actor later revealed to be the remains of a bat. The vial was ostensibly to keep Brad safe, but according to Dr Snake, a voodoo expert, the powder may have instead been a charm to lure the actor away from his wife. He said that one Voodoo spell uses the bat's heart to break-up a love affair...

AINSWORTH, Iowa -- Marjorie Morris just wanted to pour coffee into a canister. But what the Ainsworth, Iowa woman found in the package left her shell-shocked. She said she got a jolt even before she made her Folgers coffee. Marjorie Morris, 77, said when she went to pour the 2-pound package of freeze-dried coffee into a canister last Sunday, she found a dead baby turtle. Morris said she'd been making coffee from the same package for a month before making the discovery. She doesn't plan to sue Folgers, which is made by Procter and Gamble. She said she hopes the...

PITTSBURGH -- Steve Courson, the former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers who developed a heart problem after becoming one of the first NFL players to acknowledge using steroids, was killed Thursday when a tree he was cutting fell on him. Courson, 50, was using a chain saw to cut down a dead 44-foot tall tree with a circumference of 5 feet when it fell on him, according to state police. The accident happened around 1 p.m. at his home in Henry Clay Township, Fayette County. Messages left for the county coroner were not immediately returned. Pastor Lois Van Orden,...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. -- The Florida Highway Patrol said that a man and a sofa fell from the back of a truck into the middle of Interstate 95 while he was helping move some furniture. Police said the man, along with some other people, was traveling south on I-95 Tuesday evening when the incident happened. It was unclear why the man was in the back of the truck, but FHP said he was probably trying to help hold the furniture in place. The driver of the truck didn't realize that the sofa and the man had fallen from the truck,...

Police: Man Severely Beaten With Cowboy Boots Attackers Escape Empty-HandedPOSTED: 1:49 pm EST November 8, 2005 Authorities said an Ypsilanti Township man was attacked and beaten with his cowboy boots during a robbery attempt on Monday. The 27-year-old man was leaving an apartment in the 9000 block of MacArthur Boulevard at about 7 p.m. when he was attacked by several people, Sheriff's Cmdr. Dave Egeler told the Ann Arbor News. Attackers knocked the man to the ground, pulled off his boots, and used them to severely beat the man in the face, Egeler told the paper. The victim was able...

SOUTH BEND -- Feeling weak and too tired to even finish her dinner, Freedom Cherrone thought she was coming down with the cold or flu the night of Oct. 30, so she tried going to bed a bit early. Shortly after 10 p.m., the 21-year-old felt like she had to use the bathroom, but before she could make it out of her bedroom, she fell to her knees. She saw a gush of blood and fluid hit the floor. Then she felt a pressure coming from an unmistakable source. A few moments later, a baby boy was lying on the...

RAPID CITY — Police responded to an accidental shooting Saturday at Rapid City Regional Airport when a gun was fired near the baggage check-in counter. No one was injured, and no charges are being filed. “A retired Philadelphia police officer was here on a hunting trip and was checking his luggage when the airline people advised him he had to place his Glock 9 mm handgun into a hard case,” Sgt. Elias Diaz of the Rapid City Police Department said Sunday. “He was unloading it and disassembling the weapon, and he removed the magazine,” Diaz said. “Part of disassembling a...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Hardware retailer Home Depot has found itself in a sticky situation, defending a lawsuit filed by a man who said the chain's Louisville, Colo., store ignored his cries for help after he fell victim to a prank - and was glued to a toilet seat. Bob Dougherty, 57, of Nederland, Colo., said he became stuck to a bathroom toilet seat on which somebody had smeared glue on Oct. 30, 2003 and felt "tremendous panic" when he realized he was stuck. "They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told the (Boulder) Daily Camera newspaper....

Pepper-sprayed "straight in eyeballs," student says As police in riot gear worked to clear State Street (Madison, WI) after the annual Halloween Party, UW-Madison senior John Ostlund was leaving a bar, dressed as a sperm, and about to get dosed with pepper spray. By his account, he had just left The City bar as it was closing, was "rather sober," and had no warning that authorities were taking aggressive action to clear the area sometime after 2 a.m. on Sunday. "All of a sudden, the crowd around me disappeared and I was faced with a wall of cops in riot...

For the second time in two years, a wedding reception guest in Shiawassee County has lost part of a finger during a fight. This time, Philip L. Michalek, of Morrice, is accused of biting off the tip of another man's thumb during a scuffle Saturday night outside the Perry Township Hall, police said. Michalek, 26, was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and jailed with bond set at $10,000. He could face 10 years in prison if convicted. Police said Michalek was scuffling with Ryan Dickey, 23, of Grand Ledge, in the...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A seal bit off a South African woman's nose after she tried to help it back into the sea, an official said Monday. Elsie van Tonder, 49, is expected to undergo surgery this week after being bitten on a beach near George, about 240 miles east of Cape Town Saturday. Her nose was found but could not be reattached to her face, local media reported. "The seal had been lying in the same spot since Friday, so the lady and a few other people were trying to take it back to the water," said Herman Oosthuizen, a...

A CAT ran off with its owner’s TOE after he accidentally chopped it off with a kitchen knife. Udo Ried, 41, dropped a bread knife on his bare foot, slicing off the second toe. He hopped to the bathroom for a bandage — and came back to find Fritz the cat had gobbled up the toe and darted into the garden. It was never found. Doctors in Luebeck, Germany said the digit could have been reattached if the cat had not taken it.

Electrocuted Squirrel Starts Grass Fire Mon Oct 31, 7:06 PM ET BYRAM, Miss. - An electric lineman believes a squirrel started a grass fire Monday after the critter was electrocuted and fell from a power line onto parched ground. It's been more than a month since significant amounts of rain have fallen in central Mississippi, though some showers were expected late Monday. Burn bans are in effect in this Jackson suburb and many other nearby communities. Passing motorists saw a flash and heard a loud pop, then saw ashes falling from the power line. The spark ignited a grassfire, which...

A 22-year-old man was killed in Colorado Springs after accidentally shooting himself outside a fast-food restaurant drive-through. Randle Cunningham shot himself in the groin while at the drive-through window at a Taco Express at about 1 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses said Cunningham was paying for food he ordered when he dropped some of his change on the ground, while taking it from the cashier. The witnesses said Cunningham opened his car door to retrieve it and bent over, apparently causing a weapon he was carrying to discharge. Cunningham was rushed to Memorial Hospital, where he died at about 1:45 a.m. Police...

A churchgoing husband is suing the senior pastor of a top Manhattan house of worship for $5 million - charging the minister tricked him into marriage counseling so he could bed the man's unfaithful wife. Joseph Vione's suit charges that the Rev. Thomas Tewell, 56, of the Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church also urged him to become more active in the church - so the clergyman could further his "adulterous relationship with [Vione's] wife." Vione's wife, Rachel, 42, admitted the affair to her husband last January, according to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by Joseph Vione's lawyer, Dominic Barbara....

Something strange happened at Ohio's Trinity Lutheran Seminary last weekend. "I'm not sure what we're dealing with," said Bexley police Detective Bob Cuschleg. Even security cameras failed to clear things up. Cuschleg said he knows what the man did, but does not know why. "We don't know," Cuschleg said. "We don't know anything, a motive. We don't understand him." The suspect somehow got keys to five offices in the seminary, Columbus, Ohio, television station WCMH reported. Once inside those rooms, which had no cameras, he rifled through drawers and file cabinets. The man even found an envelope with $89 inside....

Batesville, Ark - According to Independence County deputies, Steven Terrell's first mistake was telling Christine Gray that he was an undercover officer for the sheriff's department. Then he showed her his driver's license. Then he asked her for a date. Then he was arrested. Deputies arrested Terrell on Wednesday night after Gray called dispatchers to ask whether police agencies had a Steven Terrell working for them. Gray said Terrell wore a jacket with a sheriff's badge on it and repeatedly showed her his tattoos. He said he had left his badge at home, but showed the woman his license. Genuine...

NEW Caledonian authorities have fined and expelled an Australian tourist convicted of assaulting border police when he arrived at Noumea's airport. John Connel, a 53-year-old farmer who had flown to the South Pacific island from Brisbane, blamed alcohol and a relationship break-up for the incident, the Nouvelle Caledoniennes newspaper reported. A court in the French territory heard this week that after arriving at Noumea's Tontouta airport, Connel threw his passport at the head of an immigration officer and yelled insults such as "F... you, Froggies!". He threw punches at two border police officers before being subdued and locked in a...

KENTWOOD IN THE PINES – An airborne wild turkey struck a motorcyclist on state Route 79 yesterday. Two turkeys were walking across southbound Route 79 near Royal Drive about 11:15 a.m., said Officer Brian Pennings of the California Highway Patrol. One turkey began to fly and struck a southbound motorcyclist in the chest. The impact caused the rider of the 2001 Harley Davidson Softail to cross into the northbound lanes and go into an embankment. The 56-year-old man hit a manzanita bush and rolled over twice. He was thrown from the motorcycle and suffered abrasions to the right side of...

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Seven French climbers and 11 Nepalese mountain guides were killed in a massive avalanche last week in the northwest of Nepal, the head of the Himalayan Rescue Association said. "All the team members of the French Mount Kangaru expedition have died," Bikram Neupane, president of the Himalayan Rescue Association, told reporters Monday in the capital after he visited the site and talked to rescue teams. The private association sent a 10-member rescue team to find survivors of the October 20 avalanche, Neupane said. The lead rescuer, Padam Ghale, told him that the snow depth precluded finding anyone...