Weird News
BLOOMFIELD, Ind.—Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.   Full Story
 
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—A Florida man is accused of tossing a sandwich at his girlfriend as they cruised down an interstate, knocking off her glasses and nearly causing her to lose control of the car.   Full Story
 
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Thieves may have to take an awkward trip to the confessional. A bronze statue of the Virgin Mary was lifted from a Catholic church in Newport Beach.   Full Story
 
DUBLIN, Ga.—He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name.   Full Story
 
BLOOMFIELD, Ind.—Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.   Full Story
 
DALLAS—Police are looking for an irate pet lover so intent on liberating his lost cat that he wielded a bat to fend off animal shelter employees.   Full Story
 
BERLIN—Time to fire up the grill. German boar hunters are reporting one of their best seasons since World War II as moderate weather and plentiful food have led to a wild pig population boom.   Full Story
 
ATTLEBORO, Mass.—A 74-year-old blind woman's 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled.   Full Story
 
VIENNA, Austria—An oversize skull with a built-in sauna is turning heads in the Austrian capital.   Full Story
 
BOSTON—An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old Weymouth man told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday.   Full Story
 
DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa zoo has recaptured a flamingo that flew over a Des Moines neighborhood, a golf course and the entire zoo during a 7-hour freedom flight.   Full Story
 
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—A man faces a domestic battery charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich as she was driving on Interstate 95 on Friday.   Full Story
 
SAN BENITO, Texas—A newly elected constable was questioned by sheriff's deputies after allowing a friend to fire his county-issued handgun into the air at a party.   Full Story
 
VIENNA, Austria—Cabs in the Austrian city of Salzburg just got classier: Drivers can no longer wear tracksuits.   Full Story
 
PADUCAH, Ky.—Chad Toy's escape from jail wasn't what shocked his jailers; it was his plea to be let back in.   Full Story
 
(AP Photo/Lewiston Sun Journal, Daryn Slover)
LEWISTON, Maine—Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining.   Full Story
 
ATTLEBORO, Mass.—A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill.   Full Story
 
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.—Authorities on Florida's east coast have arrested a man in a wheelchair who they say robbed a credit union on Merritt Island and hid the money in his prosthetic leg.   Full Story
 
ROCHESTER, Pa.—Police said a Pennsylvania man bound his neighbor with duct tape, doused him with gasoline and threatened to set him on fire unless the neighbor confessed to burglarizing his house.   Full Story
 
GLEN CARBON, Ill.—It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash mistakenly donated with old shoes.   Full Story
 
LINCOLN, Neb.—A driver who threw an axe at another motorist, wounding him, has been sentenced to 37 days in jail.   Full Story
 
PORT ORCHARD, Wash.—A 32-year-old man was booked and jailed for investigation of reckless endangerment and fourth-degree assault on Friday after allegedly throwing a wrench at another vehicle on a highway.   Full Story
 
VIENNA, Austria—An oversize skull with a built-in sauna is turning heads in the Austrian capital.   Full Story
 
BURLINGTON, Iowa—A Burlington woman awaiting a court of appeals ruling on an earlier conviction for forging her mother's checks has been arrested for allegedly doing it again.   Full Story
 
LEWISTON, Maine—Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining.   Full Story
 
NEW YORK—This winter, New Year's Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square's first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely by wind and sun.   Full Story
 
THIBODAUX, La.—It's no 90210, but residents of a small, rural community in southern Louisiana are just happy to have any five-digit ZIP code.   Full Story
 
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Talk about being lucky—a north Alabama man is alive after being run over by a train on Thursday afternoon.   Full Story
 
LYNCHBURG, Va.—A prosecutor says greasy fingerprints led police in Virginia to a suspect with sticky fingers.   Full Story
 
SUPERIOR, Wis.—Jim Kotera said the challenge hit almost three decades ago and got the ball rolling, so to speak.   Full Story