Odd News-lost golf balls of Loch Ness

Loch Ness, Scotland - There’s something lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, Scotland and it has nothing to do with monsters. On a recent expedition to try and find evidence of the Loch Ness monster, U.S. research teams came across something quite unexpected not a prehistoric creature of the deep but thousands of plastic covered golf balls. At first we thought they were mushrooms, there were so many. But when we lowered the camera, we were surprised to see that they were in fact golf balls....More

Odd News-Police in Wis. woman strips to avoid arrest

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- 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...More

Thurman Thomas statue missing, day after unveiling

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- A chain saw carving of former Buffalo Bills running back Thurman Thomas is missing from a parking lot across from Ralph Wilson stadium, a day after it was unveiled...More

Odd News-Cemetery invites families to come out and play

Indiana - It’s not unusual to see families tossing around a football or enjoying a bag of popcorn outside on a crisp autumn day. But some might find it a bit odd when they’re doing it in the middle of a cemetery. Crown Hill Cemetery’s first Family Fun Day featured a bounce house, balloon animals and corn-hole games. It was held on a grassy site near the cemetery’s center and away from any burial plots. The celebration hearkened to the early days of the cemetery, founded in 1864....More

Trashing Columbus in US classrooms

TAMPA, Florida - Jeffrey Kolowith’s kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer’s picture on a timeline through history. Kolowith’s students learn about the explorer’s significance - though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend. “I talk about the situation where he didn’t even realize where he was,” Kolowith said. “And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.”....More

Nurses no longer allowed to help paralysed man smoke

Australia - A Tobacco-addicted patient and his nursing home are at odds over regulations that stop staff helping him to smoke. Brendan Nutting, who is paralysed from the neck down and has lived at the home for 2 1/2 years, received help from staff when the Tasmanian Health and Community Service was owned by the Tasman Council. The Hobart District Nurses took over the home, and will enforce a policy that prohibits staff from lighting Mr Nutting’s cigarettes, which are held in a robotic arm attached to his wheelchair.....More

Priest Wins $25,000 on Poker Game Show

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina - A South Carolina priest has won at least $25,000 on a new poker game show. The Rev. Andrew Trapp says he’ll donate the money he wins on the show to his church’s building fund. He’s an assistant pastor at St. Michael Catholic Church....more

Teacher Tried to Sicken Autistic Boy

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - The mother of an 8-year-old autistic boy with severe peanut allergies said that an Indianapolis teacher gave her son a peanut-filled candy bar in hopes of making him sick so he wouldn?t go on a field trip. A lawsuit filed by the boy?s mother, Anita Young, alleges that special education teacher Trinda Barocas told a classroom aide that the boy would likely misbehave and ?maybe he could be sick enough not to attend and we won?t have to deal with it.? --- ...More

929 gallons of moonshine found in mountains

Wilkesboro, North Carolina - State Alcohol Law Enforcement agents seized 929 gallons of moonshine and arrested a Wilkesboro man, authorities said. Roger Lee Nance, of 1117 Shew Ridge Mission Road, was charged with possession of non-tax paid liquor, possession of non-tax-paid liquor for the purpose of selling, and possession of equipment and ingredients intended for the use in the manufacture of an alcoholic beverage. ?This is one of the biggest seizures of white liquor I have seen come out of the mountains in my career,? ALE Director John Ledford said in statement.---...More

Firefighters Catch Fire During Sprinkler Demo

WASHINGTON, DC - Usually the biggest worry for a fire chief who has gathered the public and the press together for a sprinkler demonstration is whether the sprinkler head is going to activate as promised. Livingston Fire Protection Inc. made sure that wasn?t a problem during a demonstration using two side by side mock dorm rooms at Gallaudet University in the District of Columbia. It was the fire on the unsprinklered side that occurred minutes earlier that caused a little excitement and had Chief Dennis Rubin asking for someone to put out the firefighters.---...More

Man Shoots Fiancee Day Before Wedding

WINTER SPRINGS, Florida - A man who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were to be married, police said. “Right now everything points to a tragic accident,” Police Chief Kevin Brunelle told The Associated Press, adding investigators were awaiting forensic results. John Tabutt, 62, told investigators he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, according to Brunelle....More

Odd News:Teen Beats Family After Cell Phone Taken Away

FALMOUTH, Massachusetts - Authorities said an angry Massachusetts teen kicked his mother in the throat, head-butted his brother and punched and bit his father after his mom took away his cell phone to punish him. Police said his mother took away his cell phone after he hit his 15-year-old brother Tuesday. The next day, an angry Turner attacked members of his family....More

Child-care provider arrested for making bombs

Calilfornia - By all appearances, Rebecca Kuzelka used her home to operate a child day-care business on a quiet, tree-lined street in Lake Elsinore. But a different picture of the 55-year-old mother emerged after her home was rocked by an explosion. Deputies arrested Kuzelka and her son Grey Kuzelka, 21, on suspicion of using their home to make bombs and grow marijuana. Another son, Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, injured his hand in the explosion and was hospitalized. Authorities said he would be arrested when he is released...More

Teacher spikes autistic student’s soda with hot sauce

MIAMI LAKES, Florida - A Miami Lakes special education teacher was sentenced today to two years of probation after she was found guilty of putting hot sauce in an autistic student’s soda. Sylvia Tagle also was sentenced to 100 hours of community service. The boy’s parents said they were outraged at what they call a “lenient” sentence. It really, really sends a bad message to everyone, the father told the judge....more

Children Banned From Public Parks

KENSINGTON, Maryland - Public parks are usually the places where children go to have fun. But the town of Kensington just passed a new rule that bans kids over five years old from playgrounds during the daytime. The girls at Kensington’s Brookewood School are banned from using a public park right across the street for recess....More

Couple Sues Over Bad Wedding Photos

UK - Marc and Sylvia Day are suing Gareth Bowers, of Fresh Images for botching up images of their big day. The couple says in addition to the shots being out of focus and heads being cut off there were other unforgivable mistakes. The couple say they found only twenty-two images in the more than four-hundred sent that were presentable. At one point the cameraman even swears on tape after dropping the camera at the beginning of the church ceremony.....More

Thugs attack two transvestites who were cage fighters

UK - Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress. Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, singled out the two men walking along a street in wigs, short skirts and high heels. Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, are punched to the ground and were left dazed and seen staggering to their feet after their failed attack....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Cat rescue takes 2 days

Florida - It took two days to rescue a kitten that was stuck in the engine block of a car parked at a shopping center. “We went to the movies, and when we came out, there was a note on the car saying your car is meowing,” Patrick Mills of Bluewater Bay told the Destin Log. He called the fire department for help, and firefighters spent four hours putting the car on blocks and removing wheels and other car parts in an unsuccessful effort to get the 4-week-old kitten out....More--Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Man Gets 1,000 Lashes, 5 Years for Public Sex Talk

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi court convicted a man for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits, sentencing him to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes, his lawyer said. Talking about sex publicly is a taboo in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia. His lawyer says his client was duped by the Lebanese LBC satellite channel which aired the talk show and was unaware in many cases he was being recorded....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Mich. 'Robin Hood' banker gets year in prison

DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan bank manager who insists she gave the $340,000 she stole over eight years to needy customers was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison by a judge who declared that her "Robin Hood days are long over.".......More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Dwarf gets penis glued to vacuum cleaner

UK - As part of the show, the dwarf pulls a Henry vacuum cleaner using a special attachment, across the show attached to his penis. However, the vacuum cleaner was broken before a performance and performer Blackner placed extra-strong glue on the attachment to fix it, neglecting to wait the entire 20 minutes required for the glue to dry, which resulted in his penis becoming glued to the vacuum cleaner. ...More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Odd News-Mel Gibson’s drunk driving convictions erased

LOS ANGELES, California - Actor Mel Gibson’s criminal record was cleared when a judge granted his request to expunge a pair of drunken driving convictions stemming from his 2006 arrest in the California community of Malibu. Gibson agreed to attend meetings for recovering alcoholics and do public service work as part of his 2006 conviction of driving under the influence. He fulfilled those obligations, leading to the judge clearing the charges from his record....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

'Horrorcore' singer suspected in Virginia killings

(CNN) -- Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were walking to book club two weeks ago in quaint Farmville, Virginia, when they strolled by a home on First Avenue. "Something smells dead," her friend said.

Richard Samuel McCroskey has been arrested in connection with the killings of four people in Virginia.

1 of 2 They were thinking animal. A dog, a cat, something like that. They never imagined they were smelling the remains of massacred humans. It was Thursday, September 17. But another 24 hours would pass before police made the gruesome discovery.

Richard Samuel McCroskey III -- a 20-year-old rapper in the underground genre of "Horrorcore" who sang of chopping people into pieces -- has been arrested in connection with the slayings. The crime scene was so horrifying police would not even describe it, saying only that the victims died of blunt force trauma.

The victims were Mark Niederbrock, 50, the beloved pastor at Walker's Presbyterian Church; his 16-year-old daughter, Emma Niederbrock; Melanie Wells, Emma's 18-year-old friend from West Virginia; and Niederbrock's estranged wife, Debra Kelley, 53, a professor at Longwood University.

McCroskey has been charged only in the killing of Mark Niederbrock. Police and the prosecutor's office did not return repeated phone calls from CNN. But in late September, authorities said more charges are pending.

Emma was described as a fan of Horrorcore and had met McCroskey through their mutual affection for the little-known music genre. Police said she invited McCroskey to fly from his northern California home, stay with her in Virginia and then attend the Strictly for the Wicked Festival, a Horrorcore fest in Michigan featuring bands with names like Dismembered Fetus and Phrozen Body Boy......Read The Rest

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Vampires vow till death do us part at Ohio wedding

COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio bride and ghoul have vowed to love each other and haunt and howl at the moon together at a Halloween-themed wedding. Sixty-one-year-old Jack Holsinger and 44-year-old Connie Spitznagel were both made up as pale-faced vampires for their scare-emoney Saturday night at a haunted house near Cleveland. The two chose the location because it's operated by the same people who own a campground where the couple met....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Odd News:Judge accused of spanking male inmates

Alabama - A former judge is facing life in prison after being charged with sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. Respected circuit judge Herman Thomas, who was once the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama, is accused of bringing inmates to his office and spanking them with a paddle. His trial for charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to begin today....More--Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Homeless Man Gets 15-Year Sentence for Stealing Box of Cereal

BARTOW, Florida - A homeless man with a long criminal record received a 15-year sentence for stealing a box of cereal and a can of evaporated milk. Mark Anthony Griffin, from Bartow, Fla., was sentenced as a “prison release re-offender,” which stiffens penalties for defendants convicted within three years of prison release. Griffin has more than 50 prior convictions — most on minor charges like trespassing, disorderly intoxication and petit theft....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Odd News:Mother cuts baby’s throat

New York - A Brooklyn mother, apparently upset when her baby wouldn’t stop crying, slashed him across the throat and then plunged a knife into her own leg, police said. Cops took Tineka Johnson, 29, into custody after responding to an early-morning 911 call at her East Flatbush home. She was charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon....More--Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Airline crew gets into fight

Pakistan - Pilots and cabin crew have come to blows on an international flight bound for India. The scuffle is said to have begun as an argument in the plane’s cockpit over claims of sexual harassment but spilled into the galley, startling passengers. One pilot and one air hostess suffered bruises, as punches were thrown. The incident took place over Pakistan on an Air India flight from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi, with 106 passengers and seven crew on board.....More--Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Dancing With The Stars judge stones a chicken to death

New Zealand - Bad boy Dancing With The Stars judge Brendan Cole has caused international outrage by stoning a chicken to death on a TVNZ reality show. He initially used a catapult to stone the chicken from 2m away but missed, so he chased the bird through the bush. He eventually cornered the chicken against the walls of a hut. Cole wrung its neck and beat it with a stick before asking, “is it dead yet?” as it hang limply in his hands....more---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Man wins lottery during embezzlement case

Kansas - A former Kansas radio executive who admitted that he embezzled to support an addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets won a $96,000 lottery prize. Prosecutors say the prize money will go toward paying restitution to Paul W. Lyle?s former employer, American Media Investments. Lyle pleaded guilty to felony theft for embezzling an estimated $88,000 from American Media. --

An 80-year-old Ohio man has the worse week ever

GROVEPORT, Ohio - An 80-year-old Ohio man is recovering from a week in which he was beaten during a home invasion and then shot while trying to learn about guns. He was tied up and pistol-whipped when at least three intruders broke into his Columbus-area home. Ralph Needs? nose was broken and his pickup truck, a computer and credit cards were stolen. Four days later, Needs was shot in the hand during a self-defense lesson.--

Detroit man gets 2 yrs for swiping car on 1st date

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A Detroit man has been sentenced to at least two years in prison for stealing a woman's car after skipping out on the check during their first date. Twenty-four-year-old Terrance McCoy was sentenced Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court to two to 10 years in prison....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Pastors Wear Handguns in Pulpit

DETROIT - The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at the Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a handgun under his robe. Adams is one of several Detroit clergymen who have taken to packing heat in the pulpit. They have committed their lives to a man who preached nonviolence and told followers to love their enemies. But they also say it’s up to them to protect their parishioners in church....More---Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names

Bank robbery foiled by penmanship

HILLSBORO, Oregon - Police say a bank robbery attempt in Hillsboro failed after a teller told the woman who handed her a threatening note that she couldn’t read the handwriting. According to police, a 30-year-old woman walked into a Wells Fargo bank branch and handed a teller a note that said, “Need $300 or I’ll kill you. I’m serious.” The teller told the woman she couldn’t read the writing. The teller hit a silent alarm. Police and FBI agents soon arrived and arrested the woman---More--Twitter Political Roast---Domain Names