AP - A Kentucky man wasn't around when officers seized reptiles from his home. That's because he was at a hospital having fingers amputated after a snakebite, his wife says.
Reuters - A policeman in a small New Zealand
town did not let the fact that he was naked hold him back from
chasing a thief trying to steal his car.
AP - Nassau County police have arrested a Queens man for damaging a Long Island car wash with his car. Authorities said the man was unhappy with the service he got at the Elmont car wash on Sunday afternoon.
AP - Some residents in an assisted living complex had quite a surprise when a deer jumped through the window. A witness told police a black dog was chasing six to seven deer when a deer jumped through a resident's closed window at St. Paul Home Friday afternoon.
AP - Authorities say a man robbed a bank in South Carolina after the $173 check he tried to cash bounced. Police say the man gave a teller the personal check on Monday morning, but the teller couldn't cash it because there wasn't enough money in the account.
AP - A 77-year-old woman used her car to drive off a large dog that was attacking a mail carrier, saving the woman from more bite wounds.
AP - Police in La Crosse are a little red-faced right now. They're apologizing after issuing an alert about a woman suspected of using a stolen credit card at a convenience store. They also helpfully issued surveillance video images of her.
AP - A dwarf crocodile has been snatched from the Bergen aquarium by apparently knowledgeable thieves who broke into its cage and walked out with the 27-inch reptile named Taggen, the aquarium director said Monday.
AP - Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club.
Reuters - They flirt, hold hands and guard
their lovers jealously -- yet they don't even have bones.