Thieves steal locomotive
Metal thieves stole a historic steam locomotive from an open-air museum in the city in eastern Ukraine. Police eventually found the locomotive in a scrap yard cut into pieces. Officials doubt it can ever be restored.
Metal thieves stole a historic steam locomotive from an open-air museum in the city in eastern Ukraine. Police eventually found the locomotive in a scrap yard cut into pieces. Officials doubt it can ever be restored.
A new non-profit organization, MD Motorsports, hopes to make the dream of driving a race car a reality for the blind. The founder of the organization lost his sight four years ago.
In 1946, 26 pairs of beavers were introduced into Argentina in hopes of creating a fur industry. Instead, the country is still dealing with a huge ecological disaster caused by beavers who have no natural enemies in the region. Some guides are taking tourists on beaver-watching trips while others are selling beaver meat.
A drug-sniffing dog at Orange County Jail in Florida returned to work a day after accidentally snorting a hit of heroin that had been concealed under a postage stamp. The dog’s handler noted that when the incident occurred she noticed the dog had a surprised look on his face and white powder on his nose.
An airport security screener at Denver International Airport and several others across the country are in trouble for passing their bodies through airport X-ray equipment to see what their brains looked like. A Transportation Security Administration spokesperson insists the actions did not interfere with security.
A hawk living in the rafters of a Home Depot in Ohio was captured Friday night and release into the wild. The store had about 15 pigeons living in the store when the hawk arrived a week ago and few are left. While some customers thought the hawk was cool, others found watching the bird rip apart and devour the pigeons disgusting.
For the second year in a row, Brenda Gould has registered two of her cows to vote in England. The woman has been fined and ordered to pay court costs.
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