Moscow Olympics bear now caged in parked bus in St Petersburg
(A 36-year-old bear which performed during the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been kept for the past two years in a rusty old bus on the outskirts of St Petersburg. Animal rights activists say the bear and other retired circus animals receive only minimal care in cramped and stinking cages. Katya the bear was a long-time star of the St Petersburg State Circus on Fontanka, where night after night it and another bear rode motorcycles around the ring.)
Chase ends in crash with tour bus
(A police chase that started in Franklin County around 7 p.m. Monday ended with a crash in Gettysburg around 7:30 p.m., according to State Police. A trooper on State Route 997 in Greene Township saw a 2005 Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle driver who was not wearing any eye protection. The trooper pulled alongside the bike and verbally told the driver to pull over, but the driver fled eastbound on Route 30, police said. )
Kid Left on Bus May Have Been Awake
(A 6-year-old boy who was left on a hot school bus for the entire school day does not appear to be sleeping, which is what his mother claims she was told by school officials, surveillance video from the bus shows. Aden Bramwell can be seen on the video, released by Pembroke Pines Police on Tuesday, sitting up and moving around in his seat near the back of the bus May 23.)
Man caught bus to hospital after being shot in head
(A man shot in the head flagged down a bus which took him to hospital, the Old Bailey heard on Monday. The driver, whose route took him past King's College hospital, south London, stopped to let him off outside the accident and emergency department.)
Palm Beach County school bus driver and aide arrested
(PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. -- A Palm Beach County school bus driver and an aide have been arrested and charged with neglect after they left a 5-year-old on a school bus for hours, according to the Office of the State Attorney. The two are accused of leaving the kindergarten student on the bus two hours after he was supposed to be dropped off at Benoist Farms Elementary.)
Witnesses describe fatal police fight with CA man
(A surveillance video shows witnesses describing a fatal confrontation between a homeless man and six Fullerton police officers immediately after the altercation. In the video taken aboard an Orange County Transportation Authority bus, passengers tell the driver that the officers pounded 37-year-old Kelly Thomas' face and hogtied him as he cried out for his father. The video was obtained through a public records request by the blog Friends for Fullerton's Future.)
Armageddon alert after Texas lake turns blood-red
(A Texas lake that turned blood-red this summer may not be a sign of the End Times, but probably is the end of a popular fishing and recreation spot. A drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park in West Texas almost entirely dry. The water that is left is stagnant, full of dead fish — and a deep, opaque red. The color has some apocalypse believers suggesting that OC Fisher is an early sign of the end of the world, but Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheries officials say the bloody look is the result of Chromatiaceae bacteria)
Idaho Town Terrorized by Guy in Bunny Suit
(The police in Idaho Falls have asked 34-year-old William Falkingham to stop wearing his bunny suit in public after getting complaints that he was scaring children. What about this guy's First Amendment rights?)
(BUS DRIVER COMMENT: I know who can take care of that dude: Has a crashed UFO been found on ocean floor?
(A Millennium Falcon style UFO has been discovered on the bottom of the ocean between Finland and Sweden… maybe… probably not. But that's exactly what some people are claiming sonar images of a 60ft disc-shaped object, taken by ship-wreck hunters, reveal.)
Tourist's hand nearly severed in sex romp
(A Kiwi woman had her hand almost completely severed when a sex romp on a bathroom sink in Croatia went awry, according to a report. The Croatian Times newspaper reported the 28-year-old New Zealand woman, known as Amy R, was having sex on a bathroom sink with an Englishman in the island town of Hvar when the porcelain broke and the sharp edge sliced her wrist, leaving her hand hanging by just the skin.)
Man arrested after trying to fight 'zombie' police
(A Fort Myers man was charged Sunday with disorderly intoxication in public and resisting an officer without violence after deputies say he told them they were zombies there to kill him.)
Female moaning spurs fights between male moose
(Female moose may be able to manipulate amorous males - inciting fights between male competitors by moaning. It was already known that females made "protest moans" in response to courtship. Researchers have now found that females moan more when they are approached by smaller males, and that this triggers aggression in larger males.)
Thief In SpongeBob SquarePants Mask Robs 7-11
(SpongeBob SquarePants was bad enough to many people when he was just the star of a children's cartoon. Imagine what they'll think now that he's not only absorbant, porous and yellow but also armed and dangerous lawbreaker. A thief disguised with a Spongebob mask robbed a 7-11 convenience store in Orlando last week, according to WPBF.)
(Being picked up and carried around by a giant teddy bear isn't something I've dreamed about lately, but Japanese researchers have achieved this fantasy with Riba II. The latest generation of the ursine nursing robot is designed to help caregivers move increasing numbers of elderly patients who can't get around unaided.)
Suspected teen LulzSec hacker released on bail
(Eighteen-year-old hacker and suspected member of hacktivist group Lulz Security, Jake Davis, has been released on bail after appearing at City of Westminster Magistrate's Court. Police believe Davis to be known online as "Topiary", who appeared to control the LulzSec Twitter account which has remained silent since his arrest.)
Copyright law change means iPod users are no longer criminals
(They may not have known it, but users of MP3 players, CDs or DVDs have probably been breaking the law for years as they transferred their favourite song from one format to another. Today the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will back plans that will legalise the practice, and also give the makers of spoof videos free rein.)
iPhone 5 out for carrier testing
(As the rumor mill surrounding the impending release of Apple's iPhone 5 continues to churn, wireless carriers find themselves in the mix, reportedly testing the latest version of the iPhone for network compatibility and stability.)
In Syria, 'brother of a whore' gets tossed like trash
(The bloodied bodies lay stuffed and tangled in the back of a pickup like garbage. Men lifted the bodies one by one and hurled from them from a bridge into a river below as cursing filled the air. "Brother of a whore!" they shouted as the corpses splashed and the water ran red. "Animals!" "Dogs!")
15-year-old faces charge of second-degree murder in shooting death
(The mother of Saskatoon's third homicide victim of 2011 is speaking out against violence, following the first court appearance of a 15-year-old boy accused in the death of her son. "There's no excuse for this," Grace Barr said Tuesday, her voice rising with anger and emotion. "It's not right to do this.")
(Following on from our list of inevitable things to come, here’s 10 things that definitely won’t be happening in Christopher Nolan’s epic conclusion to his Dark Knight trilogy. Proceed with caution. SPOILERS AHEAD.)
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