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NM man settles old restaurant bill after 16 years

Posted 10:42 PM 5/23/2013 by Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A man who couldn't pay a Valentine's Day date restaurant bill as a teen has return to pay his debt - sixteen years later. KOB-TV reports that Matt Sanchez repaid owner Claus Hjortkjaer this month after the owner recently reopened his French restaurant Le Cafe (More)

Indictment: 84-year-old NM woman trafficking drugs

Council members abstain from vote on abstaining

Yesterday

Surgeons remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball

Posted 10:49 PM 5/22/2013 by Associated Press

CLEARWATER, Florida (AP) - It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound (180-kilogram) tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons when he couldn't hack up a soccer ball-sized hairball by himself. The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a (More)

5/18/2013

Fleeing Ore. man pleads to be pulled from river

Posted 11:10 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

IRRIGON, Ore. (AP) - Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did. Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack told the East Oregonian officers (More)

Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail

Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled

5/17/2013

Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race

Posted 10:50 PM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin. Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py both received 3,236 votes for mayor of San Teodoro town in Mindoro Oriental province in (More)

Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru

Fleeing Ore. man pleads to be pulled from river