ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators say a Southern California man deliberately cut off his hand with a kitchen knife, but it’s not clear why. A San Bernardino County sheriff ’s sergeant says deputies found the victim after responding to a 911 call from the man’s Mojave Desert home on Wednesday afternoon. The man didn’t place […]

NIWOT, Colo. (AP) — Four students at Niwot High School in Colorado have been suspended after pepper spray forced a school evacuation. Four adults and 45 students were treated by paramedics for respiratory problems and skin irritation after the pepper spray got into a ventilation system. According to KMGH-TV, the suspended students could be charged […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man is charged with animal cruelty after his 20- pound dog was so intoxicated it couldn’t stand up. The Independent Record reports 49- year- old Todd Harold Schrier, of Helena, was charged after East Helena police responded to a report of an intoxicated dog at a bar. Officers found […]

KELLER, Texas (AP) — The administrator of a North Texas city believes he’s not needed and has laid himself off. Keller City Manager Dan O’Leary announced his decision Wednesday. O’Leary says the Fort Worth area city of nearly 40,000 has two assistant managers and really does not need a third administrator. He earns about $176,000 […]

DENVER (AP) — Some military personnel at Buckley Air Force Base outside Denver may have to go elsewhere for their buzz cuts because eight of the nine barbers at the base are on strike against the private company they work for. The barbers began walking a picket line outside a base entrance on Thursday, saying […]

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — On the day a 20-year-old was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a New Jersey police officer, the slain patrolman’s mother yearned for the kind of Old Testament justice New Jersey courts can no longer provide: an eye for an eye. “ He should […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The mayor of the southwest North Dakota tourist town of Medora is seeking permission for a hanging, and he is sticking his neck out by volunteering to be the one to go to the gallows. Mayor Doug Ellison wants to erect a gallows on his property to stage mock hangings for […]

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Searchers on Thursday found three bodies under the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off an Italian island in January, an official said, raising the number of bodies found so far to 28 and leaving four still missing. Civil Protection agency chief Franco Gabrielli did not give […]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A stowaway kitten is safe despite taking an 85-mile ride in a van’s engine compartment that included a trip across California’s Golden Gate Bridge. A Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter spokesman says the 8-month-old female feline was probably just looking for a warm place to sleep. The Santa Cruz Sentinel […]

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of marching protesters have arrived in Brattleboro to oppose the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Thursday marks the first day of the plant’s operation after its initial 40-year operating license expired a day earlier. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the plant a 20-year license extension, […]