http://www.bnd.com/430/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Belleville News Democrat en-us Copyright 2008 Belleville News Democrat Odd news 60 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:07:15 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Belleville.com http://www.bnd.com/430/story/567161.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/567161.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:05 CST Police say armed robbers - some dressed in drag - made off with euro80 million ($100 million) in loot from a lightning-fast jewelry store robbery in central Paris. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566503.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566503.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55 CST A 26-year-old man faces criminal charges after being accused of using a pickax to attack a speed enforcement camera recently installed along a Phoenix-area freeway. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566351.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566351.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55 CST A 20-year-old woman received two years probation for setting a tow truck on fire as it was rolling away from an apartment complex with a car. A Multnomah County judge also ordered Elizabeth Allen to complete alcohol treatment, 80 hours of community service and a mental health evaluation. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566261.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566261.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:35 CST A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff's Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their home. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566236.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566236.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55 CST Two suspected shoplifters are arrested after one of them zapped a Wichita Wal-Mart employee with a Taser. Police said that two Wal-Mart workers on Wednesday afternoon confronted a pair of women who tried to leave the store without paying for merchandise. At that point, one of the women fired an electroshock from the Taser. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566196.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566196.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:00 CST Leaving on a jet plane? Is the waiting the hardest part? Try airport karaoke! Houston's Bush International Airport is setting up karaoke booths for travelers, just in time for the holidays. One was to be up and running on Thursday afternoon, airport officials said. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566167.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/566167.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55 CST A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564942.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564942.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:16 CST Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work - cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids at the House of Correction and Criminal Justice Facility. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564797.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564797.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:31 CST A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu - despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop's kitchen. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564686.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564686.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:11 CST A northern Ohio artist known for envelope-pushing holiday displays is back - with Santa Claus in a wheelchair being pushed down stairs by a crazed tree. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564682.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564682.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:06 CST Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston's famous Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564608.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564608.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:16 CST Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564546.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564546.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:16 CST A man using a candy cane lawn ornament fended off a knife-wielding neighbor who had been attacking holiday guests at a Sacramento home. Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong said the man used the two-foot-tall plastic ornament to subdue the attacker until officers arrived. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564531.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564531.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:32 CST A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws - instead of the usual one - the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever seen in his 14 years catching the creatures. http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564514.html http://www.bnd.com/430/story/564514.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:46 CST It may have seemed like a mirage: Two camels nibbling on a pine tree along a street in this desert metropolis on the Texas border. Police tried lassoing the animals, which lunged at the officers with snapping teeth as onlookers chuckled.