Reuters - Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
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| Robber apologizes during Vt. general store holdup (AP) |
| AP - A thief who robbed a general store apologized to the owner and left the singles behind so workers on the next shift would have something in the till. The knife-wielding man made off with an undetermined amount of money from Joe's Pond Country Store on Wednesday after threatening owner Jeff Downs. Read more... |
| Man says cell phone saved him from stray bullet (AP) |
| AP - R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did. Read more... |
| Woman wins $2.4 million on her first trip to Las Vegas (AP) |
| AP - A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. That's because Jessica Agbunag won $2.4 million on Wednesday at a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at the California Hotel and Casino. Read more... |
| Octogenarian charged with dealing pain pills (AP) |
| AP - Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers. The arrest followed a raid on a home Monday by the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement. Read more... |
| Warrant, cocaine lead to job seeker's arrest (AP) |
| AP - A mid-Michigan man who'd been looking for work found trouble after an arrest warrant popped up during a background check at a police station. Police also found cocaine in his pocket. The company the man was applying to required a police background check. Read more... |
| 3,300 prisoners to be freed early (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Bulgaria plans to free thousands of minor offenders in an attempt to relieve its overcrowded jails and ease the work of the legal system, the government said Thursday. Read more... |
| Speeding drivers face ban for two offenses (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Drivers caught going more than 20 mph over the speed limit could lose their license after just two offenses under government proposals published Thursday. Read more... |
| Chile probes Pinochet "disappeared" back from dead (Reuters) |
| Reuters - His name is on a monument to victims of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, his family buried his mistakenly identified remains -- now a Chilean court is probing how German Cofre has come back from the dead. Read more... |
| Search widened for cardboard box fugitive (Reuters) |
| Reuters - German police searching nationwide for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail by hiding in a cardboard box to be taken away for recycling plan to issue an international arrest warrant for him. Read more... |
| Lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia (Reuters) |
| Reuters - A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologized on Tuesday for overreacting. Read more... |
| Obese have right to 2 airline seats (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. Read more... |
| Sumo-Happy hunter Asashoryu plots New Year ring return (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Volatile grand champion Asashoryu will not return to the ring until the New Year despite being fit enough to hunt and cook wild animals in the Mongolian mountains. Read more... |
| Gaffe-prone Japan PM apologises over doctor remark (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso apologised Wednesday for appearing to insult doctors, an important political interest group, by saying many of them lack common sense. Read more... |
| General and daughter enjoy Thai-style family feud (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Thailand's three-year political crisis has divided friends and families, but few can have felt the strain as much as the Sawadipol clan. Read more... |
| World's oldest polar bear dies at Canadian zoo (Reuters) |
| Reuters - Canadian zoo officials on Tuesday were mourning the death of what is believed to be the world's oldest polar bear. Read more... |
| Dog hits controls, drives van into coffee house (AP) |
| AP - A dog left inside a running van put the vehicle in drive, causing it to crash into a Long Island coffee house. Suffolk County police said no one was injured in the incident, which damaged the glass window and some patio furniture at Cool Beanz coffee shop in St. James. Read more... |
| Kangaroo genes close to humans (Reuters) |
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| Man accused of getting SUV stuck on edge of cliff (AP) |
| AP - A 21-year-old man was accused of getting his vehicle stuck on the edge of the Rimrocks in Billings with a passenger passed out inside. The man was charged with felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence. Read more... |
| China farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial (Reuters) |
| Reuters - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday. Read more... |
| Mass. cops puzzled by butcher-quality meat chunks (AP) |
| AP - Police are trying to figure out who keeps leaving chunks of meat on the town common, and why. Police said residents have been finding butcher-quality cuts of meat on the common for about five weeks. In the most recent incident, a resident discovered a large piece of raw, unwrapped meat, along with what appeared to be a liver and some bones on Tuesday. Read more... |