A Louisiana man accused of stuffing $31 worth of candy bars into his pockets faces a possible sentence of 20 years to life in prison, prompting a judge to question whether the sentence was “over the top.” Orleans Parish prosecutors chose to charge Jacobia Grimes, 34, under a statute that… Read More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBp2f117sY A Chihuahua is in animal custody after leading police on a chase across the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. The California Highway Patrol tweeted the small black dog “led us on quite a chase” Sunday and posted a video of it running furiously on the upper level of the bridge… Read More

A small plane that made headlines when it landed safely on a Southern California freeway years ago crashed on the same stretch of road, slamming into a car and killing a woman in the vehicle. Five others, including the pilot and his passenger, were injured in the crash on a… Read More

Retired World Cup soccer champion Abby Wambach was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence. Portland police Sgt. Peter Simpson said in a statement Sunday that a sergeant stopped the 35-year-old Saturday night after she reportedly ran a red light in her Range Rover near downtown. Simpson says Wambach… Read More

Police are investigating after the head and hands were removed from a Virgin Mary statue outside a Billerica Church just outside of Boston, MA. A maintenance worker said the statue had been defaced sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. This isn’t the first religious attack this week. Officers are investigating… Read More

College students on spring break joined hundreds of other volunteers at a cemetery dating to the Civil War, realigning hundreds of tilted headstones and scrubbing grime from thousands more. Some mark the graves of Union soldiers, others are from later eras. College students from Ohio and Boy Scouts from Texas… Read More

A Pacific gray whale put on a show at Southern California’s Redondo Beach, popping its huge head out of the waves and rolling around in the surf. The Daily Breeze newspaper recorded video Wednesday as the juvenile whale spouted water and scratched itself in the sand just feet from the city’s… Read More

Imre Kertesz, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died Thursday. He was 86. Book publishing firm Magveto Kiado said Kertesz died at 4 a.m. at his Budapest… Read More

Rescuers in Kolkata dug through large chunks of debris from an overpass that collapsed while under construction Thursday, killing at least 15 people and injuring scores of others, officials said. A section of the overpass in the busy Bara Bazaar residential and shopping area in north Kolkata fell on vehicles… Read More