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Dog survives 50-mile ride clinging to front of car By Tom Peterkin, Ireland Correspondent (Filed: 25/11/2005) A dog has survived a 50-mile journey clinging to the front of a car as it sped down the motorway. The resilience of the black and white collie cross-breed has astounded vets, not to mention the driver of the car, who was astonished to discover the dog trapped in the grille at the front of his vehicle. The motorist, who was travelling from Coleraine to Belfast in Northern Ireland, remembered hearing a thump as he was driving his Peugeot 306. Thinking he had hit...

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M&M baloon crashes at Macy's THanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, per NBC coverage of parade.

A well known Oklahoma pastor was attacked Sunday while giving the alter call at his church. Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa was almost knocked out when 50-year-old Steven Rogers walked forward and punched him during the time when people were joining the church. As the music played, without warning, the man punched Daugherty in the face. Before he could land a knockout blow, he was yanked away. With blood pouring down his face, Daugherty kept on preaching and forgiving. Rogers was hauled off to jail after allegedly hitting two more people, including a security guard....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man was shot to death in a dispute that began at a dance contest when his teenage stepson hit another boy while performing flailing dance moves, police said. Donald Clyburn, 41, was shot in the head near his home in the city's Kensington neighborhood. Police issued a warrant for the mother of the boy who was hit in the contest. Patricia Hayward, 39, was wanted on murder charges. The dispute started when Clyburn's stepson, Alex Ledino, struck another boy with his elbow on Nov. 15 during an impromptu neighborhood contest, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Ledino...

FARIBAULT, Minn. -- You know those hooks in bathroom stalls? They're meant for coats, not guns. Authorities in Faribault, Minn., report a man accidentally shot in himself in the bathroom at a gun show. Police Sgt. Richard Larson said the man suffered a hand wound as he was taking his gun off the hook in a bathroom stall. The 59-year-old victim was treated and released from a local hospital Sunday. The gun show took place at the National Guard Armory.

Hawk crashed through window Peder Hansen was relaxing at home, listening to some music over the weekend, when his peace literally was shattered by a bang and splintering glass. A fully grown hawk, flying at high speed, crashed through his veranda window and landed on his living room floor. "What a surprise!" the 69-year-old fisherman in northern Norway told newspaper VG on Monday. "There was glass all over the room. And in the middle of the room stood this gorgeous bird." The hawk wasn't injured and immediately started making himself at home, proving to be a messy houseguest in the...

LA CROSSE, Wis. -- The recluse who kept his dead mother in his freezer and shot at his neighbors when they came to his door was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday. Philip Schuth, 53, was sentenced for attempted homicide, reckless endangerment and concealment of a corpse. Schuth told investigators that his mother died of natural causes in 2000, and an autopsy confirmed that. Schuth, who never had held a real job, said he hid her death because he was afraid authorities would blame him and because he wanted to keep collecting her Social Security checks. He was arrested...

A French woman has admitted attempting to open an aeroplane door mid-flight so that she could smoke a cigarette. Sandrine Helene Sellies, 34, who has a fear of flying, had drunk alcohol and taken sleeping tablets ahead of the flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane. She was seen on the Cathay Pacific plane walking towards a door with an unlit cigarette and a lighter. She then began tampering with the emergency exit until she was stopped by a flight attendant. Defence lawyer Helen Shilton said her client had no memory of what had happened on the flight on Saturday, and...

Weird kid up a tree I have seen people here come up with some good insights, so I thought I would take advantage of this forum to help me figure out the behavior of this weird kid. Yesterday my two boys and I were getting ready to distribute our Boy Scout popcorn to the folks who had ordered it. We were still in the house and I heard the neighbor's dog barking and someone yelling "ShutUp!" very loud. It sounded like it was in my driveway, so I went out and looked, but saw nothing. A little bit later, one...

A man who shot and killed himself accidentally killed his wife as well when the bullet went through his head and struck her. "It's strange," Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Zamora ... "I have never seen something like that, and I've been a deputy for almost 10 years." The woman was standing about 8 feet away from her husband when she was shot. The couple had reportedly been having an argument when the husband pulled out the gun.

A Wisconsin man was arrested after police said he attacked his girlfriend with an unusual weapon -- a cactus. Nathaniel Radzicki, 22, is being held in the Sheboygan Jail for allegedly striking the woman with a softball-size plant several times in the face. According to the criminal complaint, the incident allegedly occurred Wednesday at about 10:30 p.m. at Radzicki's third floor apartment. The alleged victim said in the criminal complaint that, "Nathaniel went psycho. He acted like he was possessed -- like he was the devil." The woman required several stitches to her right, upper lip and suffered a broken...

A North York church group is fighting to curb the alarming rate of unplanned pregnancies among high school girls living in west-end housing complexes. Members of the Abundant Life Pentecostal Church on Dixon Rd. said they're concerned for the girls and their fatherless babies. They are aware of one youth who has impregnated more than a dozen schoolgirls. "Some of these studs have made 10 or more girls pregnant," said Pastor Al Bowen. "Many others have made two or three pregnant." Bowen and volunteers of the Kuriou Foundation have been conducting outreach for 15 years in housing complexes in Jane-Finch,...

(Waterbury-AP, Nov. 18, 2005 6:35 AM) _ First, a McDonald's employee in Waterbury was accused of stabbing a co-worker in the neck. Now, a Burger King worker in nearby Watertown has been charged with slashing the throat of a customer who complained about a food order. Police have charged 41-year-old Harold Lewis with first-degree assault, after they arrived at the Main Street fast-food outlet to find the 34-year-old customer bleeding profusely. The victim is in serious condition at Waterbury Hospital. Tuesday at the McDonald's next to Waterbury's Brass Mill Mall, a male employee stabbed a female co-worker in the neck...

A PARANORMAL figure, a poltergeist, allegedly resurfaced for the umpteenth time at Mumbwenge Combined School, five kilometres from Oshigambo in the Ohangwena Region, tormenting 40 learners. The mysterious and extremely sinister image, as described by learners, carries a garden fork and it is with this fork that it presses them down to the ground trying to tie them up and to kill them. The voices of children screaming could be heard in the background when New Era called the school principal, Helena Makili, amidst the unfolding drama yesterday afternoon after three o'clock

PETERBOROUGH -- A Peterborough teenager sold more than her mother's video camera for $200. She didn't know a home video of her mother and her mother's boyfriend engaged in an intimate act was in the camera. Court heard the mother learned the camera was missing on Nov. 25, 2004, when the boyfriend called and complained the tape was being shown around town. SOLD TO FRIEND The daughter, now 19, admitted she'd taken the camera from her mother's bedroom closet and sold it to a friend. The mother called police and her daughter was charged with theft. The daughter pleaded guilty...

A misprint for a toll-free sheriff's phone hotline mistakenly sent Central Florida retirees to a sex-talk hotline, according to a Local 6 News report. The error was found in a new telephone directory in The Villages community in Marion County, Fla. The number, which is listed as the non-emergency Marion County Sheriff's phone number is actually for phone sex, Local 6 News reported. The correct phone number is (888) 440-0347. Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

When 82-year-old Sadie Hester of the Macedonia community went to sweep her front porch Saturday morning, she never dreamed she would soon be fighting off the strangest animal Pontotoc has ever boasted. Hester said her dogs were barking and fighting the night before on her porch and she went out to clean up the mess on Saturday morning when the strange animal jumped on her and wrapped its tail around her arm. “He kept biting my hands...he tore up my left arm pretty bad,” Hester told reporters. A Kinkajou is a nocturnal, arboreal mammal found from Mexico to Brazil and...

Repo Man Drives Off With Sleeping Toddler In SUVPOSTED: 9:01 am EST November 17, 2005 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Missouri woman says a man repossessing her Jeep Grand Cherokee took the vehicle while her 3-year-old son was asleep in the back seat and didn't come back for 45 minutes, after she had called 911. The repossession company is disputing the facts, saying its agent followed procedures, didn't see the boy because he was covered in a blanket and brought him back just five minutes later. The police report stemming from the incident will be forwarded to the Greene County prosecutor's...

Nov. 15, 2005 — Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building as part of a complicated abandonment ritual, according to a new study. The authors of the study in the latest Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences believe the structure was one of the earliest and largest state-sponsored breweries in the Andes. They also discovered that a group of elite women served as the brewmasters, unusual both for ancient times and even for today. Remnants of ingredients,...