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Five porn sites among Top 100 in Egypt

A company tracking online traffic patterns said Egypt‘s 100 most-frequently visited websites include five porn sites.Alexa, a division of Amazon.com, released the list amid an order last week by Egypt’s prosecutor general for the ministries of telecommunications, interior and information to begin enforcing a ban on Internet pornography, al-Arabiya reported Wednesday.The company said the porn sites rank at numbers 15, 23, 29, 67 and 83 on the list of the 100 most visited sites in the country.Mean

Nov. 15, 2012

Skunk knocks Colorado TV station off air

A real stinker knocked WXRM-TV off the air for many of the Colorado Spring station‘s viewers for a day -- a skunk that sprayed on the transmitter, staff says.Station engineers said the skunk got into the transmitter room atop Cheyenne Mountain about 8 p.m. Sunday and burned itself on equipment. The polecat reacted by spraying the transmitter, causing a breaker to trip.The signal wasn’t restored for the station‘s Dish, DirecTV and over the air viewers until shortly after 8 p.m. Monday, staff said

Nov. 14, 2012

Skunk knocks Colorado TV station off air

‘Lucky’ man run over by combine

Authorities in Montana said a man who took a nap in a cornfield is “lucky to be alive” after being run over by a combine tractor.Yellowstone County sheriff‘s deputies said the man, whose name was not released, arrived in Billings via bus Wednesday and decided to take a nap in a cornfield while walking along a road, the Helena (Mont.) Independent Record reported Monday.“He said that he stepped off the busy road and about three rows of corn into the field,” sheriff’s Lt. Kent O’Donnell said. “He s

Nov. 13, 2012

Suspected gang member arrested over tattoo

Police in Minnesota said a suspected gang member was arrested over tattoo of a pig in a police uniform being shot.Hennepin County prosecutors said Antonio Jenkins Jr. posted a picture on Facebook of a tattoo on his right bicep depicting a pig in the uniform of Minneapolis police Officer Jeffrey Seidel being shot through the head by a person, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Friday.Jenkins, a suspected member of the Bloods street gang currently on probation for armed robbery, was arrested Thur

Nov. 12, 2012

Man allegedly fondled son‘s psychologist

Police in Minnesota said an Iowa man was arrested for allegedly fondling the breasts of his 8-year-old son‘s psychologist.St. Paul police said Brent Todd Friest, 39, a Radcliffe, Iowa, pig farmer, was consulting with the specialist Wednesday at United Hospital when he commented that “it must be hard getting a date being a psychologist,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Friday.The psychologist ignored the comment, but Friest soon told his son to leave the room so he could tell a “dirty joke” t

Nov. 12, 2012

[Photo] Street animals of China

From illegal impromptu pet shops, to glove eating goats in Buddhist monasteries, this collection features various animal encounters on the streets of China. (UPI) <관련 한글 기사>중국에서 만난 거리의 동물들불법 애완동물 노점에서 불교 사원에 이르기까지 중국의 거리에서 여러 종류의 동물들을 만나다. (코리아헤럴드)

Nov. 8, 2012

Teens admit fatal drive-by shooting of boy

Three Canadian teenagers pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday in a drive-by shooting that killed a 5-year-old boy as he slept.The youths‘ surprise guilty pleas in a courthouse in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, came on the day their trial was scheduled to begin, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.The teens were 17, 16 and 13 at the time of the July 11, 2011, shooting that killed Ethan Yellowbird. The boy was shot in the head as he slept in his grandfather’s house in Hobbema.The three defendants,

Nov. 8, 2012

Teens admit fatal drive-by shooting of boy

Four relatives arrested over bodies: Japan police

Police arrested four members of the same extended family Wednesday in a multiple murder investigation that has transfixed Japan, an official said.Newspapers and television news programs have offered extensive daily coverage since three decaying corpses were found in an empty house in Hyogo prefecture in the west of Japan several weeks ago.A fourth body encased in a concrete-filled drum was pulled out of the sea west of Hyogo earlier this week as police said more people were missing, presumed dea

Nov. 7, 2012

Voting machine changes vote

Pennsylvania election officials Tuesday were forced to remove a voting machine that insisted a vote for President Obama was a vote for Mitt Romney.A voter posted a video on YouTube showing the machine changing a vote for the president to a vote for his Republican challenger, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported. NBC News reported it confirmed the machine was taken out of service.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the machine was in Perry County. Department of State spokesman Ron Ruman said the

Nov. 7, 2012

Man spots Bigfoot in Utah?

A Utah man says he saw Bigfoot while camping in Provo Canyon.The man, whose real name has not been reported, posted a video to YouTube of what he says he believes may be Bigfoot, KSTU-TV, Salt Lake City, reported Saturday.The man said he and a friend were hiking near Squaw Peak and Little Rock Canyon Overlook when they spotted what they believed to be a bear.But when “the monster stood up and looked right at us,” they fled.“We had actually been standing there for awhile. We had thought it was a

Nov. 7, 2012

Police refuse to respond to burglar alarm

A Texas man said police refused to respond to his report of a burglar alarm going off at his business because he had not paid a $50 annual fee.Leroy Reber said he received a text message around 4 a.m. from the burglar alarm at his Fort Worth business, DFW Wholesale Security, and he got on his computer and viewed a live video feed of a burglar attempting to break into the store before repeatedly backing his van into the corner of the building, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported Tuesday

Nov. 7, 2012

Police refuse to respond to burglar alarm

Donkey sex suspect wants animal back

Authorities in Florida said a man accused of engaging in a sex act with his miniature donkey is asking for his animal back.Carlos Romero, 31, who is charged with animal cruelty and is currently in protective custody, said Tuesday in his first court appearance he wants the 21-month-old donkey he is accused of having sex with Aug. 15, the Ocala (Fla.) Banner-Star reported Monday.Romero, who was arrested Monday and pleaded not guilty at his court appearance, is in protective custody with bail set a

Nov. 6, 2012

African dogs kill child at Pittsburgh zoo

A 3-year-old boy was mauled to death Sunday when he fell into the African painted dog exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, the zoo said.A zoo news release said keepers were able to clear seven of the 11 dogs after the child fell, and darts were shot to scare the dogs away from the child. But “unfortunately, the dogs were in pack mentality and not responding.”“The screams just kept coming and coming: ‘Someone help. Someone has to do something,’” Angela Cinti, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., told th

Nov. 5, 2012

African dogs kill child at Pittsburgh zoo

Hunt on after pet camel Noodles decapitated in Australia

Australian police were Thursday hunting for leads after a pet camel called Noodles was shot and decapitated at an outback farm, possibly by a trophy hunter, depriving the owner of his “best mate.”Neale McShane, an officer at the remote Birdsville police station in Queensland, said the camel was killed at a cattle station outside the town, on the edge of the Simpson Desert 1,590 kilometres (1,000 miles) west of Brisbane.“An unknown person called the camel, Noodles, over -- and he went because he

Nov. 1, 2012

Hunt on after pet camel Noodles decapitated in Australia

Kids showered in heroin during raid

Three young children were showered in heroin during a SWAT team raid on a motel in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., police say.Police said Indaleccio Rodriguez-Escalera, 22, of Buffalo, who was arrested along with his girlfriend in the Tuesday morning raid at an Economy Inn in Tonawanda, sent the heroin flying while trying to get rid of it, the Tonawanda News reported.Police said when the SWAT team entered the motel room to execute a search warrant, Rodriguez-Escalera jumped out of bed and threw a handfu

Nov. 1, 2012

Restaurant worker foils robbery with soup

An employee at an Illinois Subway restaurant stopped a robbery by throwing a pot of soup at an armed robber wearing a ghost mask, police said.The attempted robbery happened at 6:45 p.m. Friday when an employee was leaving the restaurant and was forced back inside by the masked bandit, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.“He pushed her down to the floor and kept yelling to open the register,” said Braidwood Police Chief Rich Girot. “A male employee threw a pot of soup at the suspect and they scuffled

Oct. 29, 2012

Teen played dead, survived SoCal shooting

A California teen played dead after he and four members of his family were shot in a robbery attempt, a family friend told reporters.Martha Zerehi said the 13-year-old boy was shot and then pretended he had been killed to fool the gunman into not firing again.“He played dead to live,” said Zerehi, adding the suspect “thought he killed everybody.”Three people were killed in the incident Wednesday at United States Fire Protection Services and a nearby residence in Downey, south of Los Angeles.Fami

Oct. 29, 2012

Doomsday near, man won‘t pay traffic fine

A man in Russian said he won‘t pay a traffic fine because the upcoming end of the world in December makes the payment senseless.Quoting those who claim the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end December 21, the unnamed man in western Siberia, fined 1,000 rubles ($32) after a minor traffic accident in Kemerovo, Russia, showed debt collectors a range of charts to demonstrate Doomsday is imminent, the city’s website said Friday.“The debtor believes that if people are kinder to each other and f

Oct. 29, 2012

Bus and truck crash with no drivers

Police in Pennsylvania said they are investigating a bizarre crash between an unoccupied bus and an unoccupied truck.Patterson police Chief Rich Cindrich said the McCarter Transit school bus, which had been parked by its driver on the street for about half an hour, began to roll downhill around 9:55 a.m. Tuesday and struck the truck, which then also began to roll down the hill, the Beaver Times reported Wednesday.“We think it probably sheared the parking pin on the truck,” Cindrich said.He said

Oct. 25, 2012

Deer jumps into motel room, wakes couple

Police in Pennsylvania said a deer jumped through a window into a motel room and shocked a sleeping couple.Law enforcement officers were called to the Econo Lodge in Lancaster around 11:45 p.m. Saturday after a report of a deer in a motel room, WGAL-TV, Lancaster, reported Tuesday.The officers said they arrived to find the deer, which was bleeding from broken glass in the shattered window, bouncing off the walls of the room. They said the animal jumped back out the window, was struck by a vehicl

Oct. 24, 2012