Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 10.12.8
Caption: A nice story
Billie Watts said she was tempted but couldn't bring herself to keep $97,000 she said she found in a Cracker Barrel restroom. The 75-year-old Murfreesboro woman told The Daily News Journal that she discovered the money inside a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on a stall door last Thursday.
But five days later, the money and its anonymous owner remain something of a mystery in the community, where police said they have no report of the find.
While digging through the bag to figure out its owner, Watts said she found a bundle of neatly stacked $1,000 bills.
Headline: Woman, Mom Convicted Of Smuggling Monkey Into US
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 9.12.8
Caption: Monkee See, Monkey Do
A Spokane woman and her mother have been convicted in federal court on charges of sneaking a rhesus monkey into the United States from Thailand. Gypsy Lawson, 29, hid the sedated young rhesus macaque under her blouse, pretending to be pregnant when she successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles after a trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
Her mother, Fran Ogren, 55, of Northport, Wash., also went on the trip in November 2007.
The two women were found guilty Monday by a 12-member jury on separate charges of conspiracy and smuggling goods into the United States. Sentencing is set for March 3.
Headline: Blood Alcohol Tester Charged In Nevada With DUI
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 9.12.8
Caption: Drunk Drunk Tester
A contract worker for a Nevada sheriff's department is accused of driving drunk to a jail to test a suspect's blood alcohol content.
Fifty-three-year-old Kathleen Cherry told a Carson City sheriff's deputy who smelled alcohol on her breath that she had one margarita before driving Friday night.
She's accused of failing field sobriety tests and registering a blood alcohol content over the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Cherry is a phlebotomist, trained to draw blood for lab tests. She was booked on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge, and her bail was set at more than $1,000.
HEADLINE: Washington Priest Chases Thief, Recovers Church Funds
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: The Long Arm of Religion
A Washington priest went sprinting through the streets, just before Mass, to recover collection money that a thief swiped from the church safe.
"I said, 'Hey, I'm going to go catch a thief,"' the Rev. Bill Hegedusich told startled congregants at St. Peter's church on Capitol Hill as he bounded through the church door Sunday morning.
Hegedusich said the man had taken two bags of money, totaling about $125, from an unlocked safe.
The 48-year-old marathon runner, clad in his black shirt and white clerical collar, said he chased the man for about two blocks and yelled at him to return the money. The man threw one bag on the ground and kept running.
Hegedusich returned with the single bag. He estimated that he recovered about $60.
Headline: Woman has first child ... at age 70
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: A Mother of a Grandma
AN Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after IVF treatment, local media reports.
Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state.
"Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19," he told the Hindustan Times.
"Both the mother and child are in good health."
Ms Devi's husband, aged 72, had also wed his wife's sister after 10 years of his first marriage did not result in children.
His second wife also failed to become pregnant.
It was not clear whose egg and sperm were used in the successful treatment.
"We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life," Ms Devi told the Times of India.
Headline: Men Are Red-Faced, Women Greenish
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Green Under The Gills
There's a new color palette for sex, and it's Christmas-y.
New research suggests while male faces are red, female faces have a greenish tint.
The results, detailed online this week in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that along with other facial cues, such as shape, color can be used to pick out a guy from a gal.
Headline: Field Trips Nixed After Students See Classmate Autopsy
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: We Know That Stiff
PONTIAC, Mich. — A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.
The Detroit News reports Monday that Oakland County officials decided to stop the tours in Pontiac after they were contacted by the girl's parents, who were very upset about the March tour.
Mike Zehnder, the county's director of public services, says it was "a poor decision" to let the tour go on.
Headline: Rhino escapes zoo pen in search for love
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Horny
A RANDY rhinoceros escaped its enclosure today and went looking for love - but has been sedated near a perimeter fence.
The escapee - an 18-year-old male white rhino named Satara - was reported to have escaped Monarto Zoo, east of Adelaide, around just after 1pm (CST) today.
Relieved zoo keepers then reported the amorous animal lacked an adequate sense of direction and was not able to gain access to the female object of his desire, AdelaideNow reports
Headline: Man stole police car to sell its tyres
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Dumb Ass
A MAN who stole an empty police car crashed it into a garbage dumpster at the end of a two-hour joy ride
"When I found the car and I saw it had the key in the ignition, well, I just got in," foiled car thief Alejandro Juarez said in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
"I was thinking about taking off the tyres so I could sell them," he said.
"But then I was thinking first I would take it for a spin - and then bam, I got a bit distracted and crashed," Mr Juarez said.
Headline: 'Tis the season to dump grannies - doctors
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Bye, Bye Grannies
ELDERLY Victorians are being dumped in hospital emergency departments as their relatives go on holidays.
Frontline hospital staff have lifted the lid on the shocking practice of "granny dumping", saying it is on the increase and peaks over the Christmas period.
There are calls for an urgent inquiry as worried emergency department workers warn the practice is robbing genuine patients of vital beds.
Last Monday, a woman in her 70s was delivered by ambulance to the Northern Hospital's emergency department, where her relatives requested she stay for three weeks.
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