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Swiss designer creates dinosaur dung watch
GENEVA (AP) -- A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance - dinosaur dung. Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch set in fossilized feces will sell for 12,000 ($11,290) and comes with a strap made with skin from an American cane toad....
Woman allegedly hits sister with toilet tank lid
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa City police arrested a woman who allegedly attacked her sister with the lid of a toilet tank. Nitasha Johnson, of Iowa City, was arrested early Sunday and was charged with domestic abuse assault causing injury and interference with official acts. According to police, Johnson removed the lid and hit her sister during a fight. Authorities said the sister suffered an injured foot and finger....
Tapping of Mass. cemetery maple trees gets bad rap
LANCASTER, Mass. (AP) -- Maple syrup producers are under fire for tapping maple trees in Central Massachusetts cemeteries. The Worcester Telegram reports Monday that at least two cemeteries in Lancaster and one in Petersham have sap buckets on trees that stand along side rows of tombstones. Athol Public Works Director Douglas Walsh said a recent investigation of tapped trees in Chestnut Hill Road Cemetery found that the culprits were neighborhood kids....
Determined bulldog chews officer's tires, bumper
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- What happened to a Chattanooga police officer's car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traffic speeds with radar and stopped to fill out a report when he felt his car shaking. He found a bulldog chewing on the tires. After the dog attacked two passing cars and a second police car, officers used pepper spray and a Taser on it, but the animal wasn't deterred....
Trooper makes 2 DUI arrests in one traffic stop
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska State Troopers needed just one traffic stop to make two arrests for drunken driving. Troopers said a highway patrol officer arrested a 42-year-old man for drunken driving after stopping him for speeding on Sunday. A short time later, a 29-year-old man arrived to take custody of the car. The officer determined he had driven to the scene while drunk....
Green Bay's most stolen street sign? Mullet place
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The most frequently stolen street sign in Green Bay isn't Lombardi Avenue, Reggie White Way or Brett Favre Pass. The distinction goes to a short street on the city's southwest side. Its name brings to mind the helmet-style haircut of the 1980s - the cut perhaps best personified by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus....
Detroit city workers being warned to go scentsless
DETROIT (AP) -- Change is in the air for Detroit city workers. City employees will be urged not to wear perfume, cologne or aftershave as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit....
Milk or cider? NH House weighs in on state drink
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Apples are getting some competition from cows in the debate over what New Hampshire's state drink should be - cider or milk....
Police: Woman in bust hid nearly $26,000 in bra
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A fraud bust, indeed: Spokane County sheriff's deputies said a woman was hiding nearly $26,000 in her bra when she was booked into jail for investigation of theft. Lukeisha A. Harris was one of three Seattle-area residents arrested Friday as part of an alleged fraud ring. Deputies said they used phony Oregon driver's licenses and counterfeit credit cards to obtain cash advances from Spokane banks....
Arizona town opens time capsule, can't find brandy
SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) -- A town in Arizona is missing a 25-year-old bottle of brandy....
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