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SALT LAKE CITY – A man stuck upside-down in a cave for more than a day died early Thursday, despite the efforts of dozens of rescuers, authorities said. John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park died about 12:30 a.m., nearly 28 hours after he became stuck 700 feet into the cave known as Nutty Putty, Utah County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Spencer ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A 19-year-old man was jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman said Anthony Carrazco's alleged scheme went awry when he knocked on a police officer's apartment door. [widget:news__off_beat] Spokesman Jimmy Manrrique said the episode happened Thursday downtown near the University of Texas-Texas Southmost College campus. He said ...

WESTMINSTER — A late-morning bank robbery turned frantic and violent Thursday, ending with both suspects dead and a police officer hospitalized after a gun battle near West 120th Avenue and Federal Boulevard. A deputy chief also was injured. It began shortly after 11:51 a.m., when police received a report of a robbery at the FirstBank branch at West 120th and Sheridan ...

INDIANAPOLIS -An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing. [widget:news__off_beat] Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School on Tuesday after receiving a tip from a television viewer saw surveillance video on a newscast. Detectives said two suspects forced their way into a home on ...

TAMPA - Joshua Basso, 29, was looking for sex Wednesday morning and out of minutes on his cell phone, according to Tampa police. So he called the only number that worked: 911. "Basso states that he was going to do his laundry today but was informed that the washer was inoperable," Tampa police Officer Vivian Frauenfeld wrote in an incident report. ...

WICHITA, Kan. -A man and woman who reported to police that robbers stole their marijuana are now facing charges themselves. The 32-year-old man and 29-year-old woman told police five armed men came to their Wichita apartment late Monday night and took marijuana. [widget:news__off_beat] Police said one suspect accidentally fired his gun and spooked the other suspects. They ran from the apartment ...

FOUR men were caught cavorting nude in a car wash.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport. [widget:news__airport_police] The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that 40-year-old Michael Plank of Lomita, Calif., was returning from Australia when U.S. Customs agents found 11 skinks, two geckos and two monitor lizards ...

LA MARQUE, Texas - A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston. The Lufkin, Texas, man told ...

OXFORD, Ohio - An 18-year-old Ohio man decided to dress up as a breathalyzer for a Halloween party. What do you think happened next? James Miller was arrested after driving the wrong way down a one-way street. His car's headlights weren't on, and he had several different Ohio IDs on him.Police Video: The Dumbest Criminals Caught On TapePolice say he had ...

Randy Eugent Cliett was extracted from the ventilation system at the supermarket in Haines City this morning — more than five years after he was accused of breaking into the same business. Screams coming from the roof of La Placita Mexico Supermarket early Tuesday meant Randy Eugene Cliett got stuck in another jam at the popular Polk County grocery. A veteran ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing.   Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School on Tuesday after receiving a tip from a television viewer saw surveillance video on a newscast.   Detectives said two suspects forced their way into a ...

PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Police say a Wisconsin woman stripped in front of her children in an attempt to avoid arrest for shoplifting, then scuffled with officers and exposed herself through a squad car window. Julia E. Laack, 36, of Sheboygan was charged Friday with felony battery of a peace officer, resisting an officer, shoplifting and two counts of disorderly conduct, the ...

CLIFTON, Tenn. -- The state Department of Correction said two inmates escaped a minimum security prison in southwest middle Tennessee on Nov. 7 to steal cigarettes before returning, WSMV-TV in Nashville reported.

Perkasie PA   A lady fights for her right to hang laundry in her back yard.

EDGEWATER, Colo. - Police in the Denver suburb of Edgewater say a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy to miss work. Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Siebers was arrested after police say he admitted making up the assault and said he was responsible for the knife wound ...

DENVER - It was not the window display employees were hoping for at a local Bed Bath & Beyond.   Around 11:30 a.m. on Friday, 50-year-old woman drove into the display window of the store next to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. According to Bed Bath & Beyond, no one in the store was injured. It has no estimate on the ...

DULUTH, Minn. - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers. Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal ...