LOVELAND, Colo., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A 74-year-old Loveland, Colo., man was put under house arrest for killing two of his neighbor's cats by feeding them anti-freeze laced gelatin.
NAPLES, Fla., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Joe Procacci's tomatoes are said to taste great, but Florida officials say no matter, they're just too ugly to represent the state in the nation's markets.
JANESVILLE, Wis., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Janesville, Wis., woman plowed her car through a plate-glass window into a YMCA Thursday and stopped just feet from the swimming pool's deep end.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Virginia man who coated every object in a hotel room with the contents of 14 jars of petroleum jelly was fined $3,886 and sentenced to three years probation.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Two red-tailed hawks in New York have joined the ranks of the city's homeless with the demolition of their tony Fifth Avenue nest.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Indianapolis police are seeking a disgruntled deliveryman suspected of abandoning a truckload of 14,000 cases of beer that was raided by a thirsty public.
MEXICO, Ind., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Mexico, Ind., teen was arrested for allegedly robbing a gas station where his own sister was working behind the cash register.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Technology that allows secret photographs to be taken in changing rooms and up women's skirts could send peeping New Zealanders to jail, the BBC reported.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A brothel operating in a former pigsty was closed by Malaysian police after women noticed their husbands making regular trips into it for no apparent reason.
LONDON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- An upscale London restaurant has learned the hard way that monster truffles can't be displayed too long without rotting, regardless of how much they cost.
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A northern flying squirrel from Indiana has Canadian bureaucrats rewriting their own regulations on the fly in a bid to deport her, the Toronto Star said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- An Orthodox Jew is suing his employer in New York for religious discrimination because he couldn't get kosher food at his office Christmas party.
DALLAS, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania attorney general is trying to shutdown a Texas business that allegedly issued a bogus college degree to a cat in an undercover operation.
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TOKYO, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- In Japan Thursday three thieves took a bag containing about $1.4 million in cash from a car they had just rammed with their vehicle.
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ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A truck driver and his wife, on their way to Arkansas, halted in Albuquerque, N.M., that turned into a $1 million windfall stop for the couple.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The broken leg excuse allowed Joe Vitelli of Westborough, Mass., to watch the Yanks-Red Sox game last year -- but he might have lost his girlfriend.
DELTONA, Fla., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Deltona, Fla., couple has decided to live in a tent rather than continually plead with their 17- and 12-year-old children to clean up after themselves.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- An 11-member civic group is asking the St. Paul, Minn., City Council to move two bronze statues of "Peanuts" characters from a city park.
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
