Thursday, April 29, 2010

Alaska's gas prices rise up to $9

In Anchorage, Alaska, many americans today, are paying about up to $3. But people who live in McGrath, Alaska saw their price of gas jump all the way to $9 in one night. The best price at the only pump went from $6 to $9.20. The gas company Crowley Petroleum Distribution stated that it was forced to raise their price because the winter drained there town supply, and raising the price dramatically was the only option. The company says that it will not be able to send a barge until June at the EARLIEST. Crowley Petroleum Distrbution says that atleast 400 people have tried to contact their facebook page and tried to boycott.

Women shoots bullet in the air to break up party

In Kennewick, Washington, Officers say that a sixty-six year old woman was accused of firing a gun into the air to break up a party that her neighbor was having. The women was sent to the Benton County jail for investigation of discharging a weapon in the city of Kennewick. Police went to her house on Sunday night. The told the officer she was upset about the party, but she claims she only smacked a frying pan on a wooden fence. She also denied owning a gun, but they found a 32-calilber derringer, fully loaded in her kitchen cupboard

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Man bitten for calling a female fat?

In Lincoln, Nebraska, The cop said that, a 24-year-old male is missing a part of his right ear, due to a woman that disliked being called 'fat'. Police spokeswoman, Katie Flood, said police man were called to the Lincoln hospital at 3:25 am, a Wednesday to talk to the man, that gotten bitten. Katie Flood stated that, officers claim that the injured male and two other people were arguing at a birthday party. The injured man told 21-year-old Anna Godfrey she was fat. Anna Godfrey was arrested on felony assault. The ear chunk was not found

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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In San Diego California, a person born in Nigeria, that is also a US citizen, spent two days in a Tijuana Mexico jail after some mexicans authorities thought the soup spices this person had was an illegal drug. A social worker Okoronkwo Umeham stated that on Tuesday that while crossing the border he was detained because mexican inspectors he had five bags of khat a stimulant in East Africa. Uneham said he was bringing ingredients a Nigerian soup to his nephew that lives in Mexico. He didn't speak spanish so he couldnt explain what he had wasnt drugs

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Man in jail for 15 years

In Miami, Florida, a male had been sent to prison for fifteen years for trying to break BACK into a jail where he'd been held from a man-slaughter case, media reported this on Wednsday. A judge sent the man, Sylvester Jiles of the age of 25 to prison for a maximum for 15 years on Monday after conviction this year from trying to break in Brevard County Detention Center, said the Florida Today newspaper. He was afraid that some of the family members of the guy he murdered. Jiles has been released on probation.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Overdue library book was turned in 45 years late

In London,at the Dinnington Library, workers are used to people returning books late, but the book that got returned last month was very shocking. The book was Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale which had been checked on September 24 1965. "I thought at first it was just a normal return, until I saw the color of the pages: they were very brown around the edges.It's true that some people like to take their time with a good book, but 45 years is an incredible amount of time. " said Alison Lawrie, the Principal Library Assistant. The staff of Dinnington Lirbary believe that the book was borrowed from the old Dinnington Library which opened 1936. The person who borrowed this book can not be identified because records do not go back that far

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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Pilot gets arrested for fake license

In Amsterdam, a pilot from Sweden was arrested inside of his cockpit at the Amsterdam Schiphol airport. He was prepared to fly 101 passengers to Turkey. The 41-year-old male had been flying planes for thirteen years, had logged over ten thousand flight hours using forged documents from Belgium,Britain, and Italy airports. The pilot, whose name will not be revealed, was said to have expressed relief when confronted and taken off his pilot's stripes.