A stowaway who apparently hid aboard a flight from Ethiopia to Washington was found in the plane’s baggage hold by workers at Dulles International Airport, authorities said last night. As baggage handlers unloaded the Ethiopian Airlines flight Saturday morning, they spotted an arm protruding from between luggage pallets, officials said. At that point, the workers [...]
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Two Arizona Cardinals fans hung their team’s flag in a tree and burned “Go Cards,” “Go Kurt” and “I heart AZ” in Donovan McNabb’s yard with diesel fuel. Read (ESPN)
Monday night, vandals spray-painted three police cars in Culpeper. Two cars were vandalized at officers’ homes, but the third was spray-painted at the town police station. Read (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)
Montgomery County, MD police have noticed a speed camera prank that targets innocent drivers. The prank works like this: A driver will take down someone else’s license plate number, print a high resolution image of that license plate, attach it to their own license plate, then speed by a speed camera on purpose, so that [...]
Someone rode their bike to Walmart, and when she saw there was no bike rack, she attempted to take her bike inside. The manager told her that she should have driven a vehicle, and she couldn’t bring the bike inside because Walmart sells bikes. Using that logic… so I asked her if they also sold [...]
A 17-year-old Culpeper youth is in juvenile detention after police say he told them he had been getting high on mushrooms collected from “cow pies” in local pastures. He was charged with possession of mushrooms with the intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. Read (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)
The value of processed fryer oil has increased, and there have been reports of thefts in multiple states. Much to the surprise of many people, processed fryer oil, which is called yellow grease, is actually not trash. The grease is traded on the booming commodities market. Its value has increased in recent months to historic [...]
I seldom remember my dreams, but I do remember last night’s. I was sitting up when I woke up at 5:50 this morning. I dreamt that my wife and I and a friend of ours whose husband (Stan) died two weeks ago were at a Gourds show. The Gourds weren’t doing a regular concert – [...]
Vehicle In Front of Me on 2/28/08 Originally uploaded by Steve Jenkins There was a vehicle in front of me this afternoon that had 2 confederate bumper stickers and a license plate that had a confederate flag on it. The van was driven by an older white man who was steadily smoking while driving. Why [...]
A father and son were arrested in the town of Orange, VA Wednesday night after police found them intoxicated and inhaling Freon gas on the roof of the Silk Mill Grill, a popular downtown eatery and bar. Police responded to the restaurant, across the road from Sheetz, after receiving a report around 8:15 p.m. that [...]
Alphonso Albert, the head of Norfolk’s Anti-Crime Office, will be appointed to other duties at City Hall, according to two sources who asked not to be identified. The move is an effort to end a controversy that began last week after The Virginian-Pilot revealed that Albert is a felon. His criminal record includes convictions for [...]
A dispute over money for a funk and soul show ended last week with a traveling musician jailed in Roanoke. Darryl Nathaniel Jenkins, 49, who uses the stage name Darryl Ray, was charged early Friday morning with robbery by violence after an incident at Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill. A bartender at Martin’s Downtown, said [...]
A rabid black bear trying to rip out a window air conditioner lost its tug-of-war with a terrified housewife when her husband blasted the beast with a shotgun. The bear rushed the Maryland house after she yelled out her screen door to try to scare it away from a goat pen. Read (AP via WUSA9)
They congregate on patios, slip into stairwells and, if they’re crunched under foot, oh do they stink. Crickets have arrived in force, annoying Texans earlier than usual – thanks to the year’s wet weather in much of the state. The problem is so bad at the University of Texas at Austin that school officials are [...]
A bizarre fox attack at a Salisbury, MD steak house had patrons and employees jumping and scrambling for cover. The attack happened near closing time, when customers encountered a wild fox in the parking lot. Feeling threatened, they ran back inside the slow-release door at restaurant, and the fox followed them inside. Once inside the [...]
It was like a scene out of an old Western, with lawmen in hot pursuit of alleged outlaws on horseback. Only this time the pursuers were in police cruisers, and the chase was through a modern suburban neighborhood. One of the outlaws was seen urinating against the side of a Culpeper convenience store. After being [...]
Six members of an alleged homegrown terror cell that intended to launch a commando-style attack on New Jersey’s Fort Dix were arrested by the FBI Monday night after a 15-month investigation. Four of the six were born in Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and the other in Turkey. All were U.S. residents. Their alleged [...]
The diners didn’t know it, but their credit cards were going to pay for more than their meals, prosecutors said. Waiters in about 40 restaurants, in New York and elsewhere, quietly recorded customers’ credit card information and passed it on to people who used the information to make more than $3 million worth of worth [...]
64-year-old California grandmother and blogger is the latest addition to the menagerie of freelancers, filmmakers and activists who have been allowed to see war first hand as “embeds.” Listen (NPR) Jane Stillwater’s blog is located at http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/. She mentions in her most recent post that she might not get a chance to visit the Red [...]
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