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A hulking McDonald’s employee was arrested yesterday after allegedly urinating on his pregnant girlfriend during an argument in their Florida home. Christian Betts, 26, is locked up on a felony aggra

A woman was seriously bitten by an alligator on Saturday in a Florida river, according to fire officials.

Firefighters were called to a bar in Brazil to remove a drunk and belligerent monkey that downed a glass of rum and armed itself with a kitchen knife. The local fire department in Patos, Paraiba, said they were called to a bar Feb. 5 on a report of an aggressive monkey with a kitchen knife chasing men. Fire deparment Lt. Col. Saul Laurentino said the monkey drank a glass of rum at the bar before picking up the knife and chasing...

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found more than 600 tweets denying the existence of God, ridiculing Quranic verses, accusing all prophets of lies and saying their teachings fueled hostilities.

A woman pleaded guilty Monday to setting her newborn on fire and leaving her in the middle of a New Jersey street. Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier pleaded guilty in Mount Holly to aggravated manslaughter. She had previously pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. The 23-year-old Pemberton Township woman doused her newborn with accelerant and set her on fire in January 2015, investigators said. The baby had third-degree...

Federal immigration judge believes migrant toddlers can defend themselves in court, according to a deposition in a court case brought by advocates seeking government-appointed attorneys for the youths. "I've taught immigration law literally to 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of patience," Judge Jack Weil said. "They get it. It's not the most efficient, but it can be done."

Several YouTube stars have ramped up the shock value of their stunts to get clicks - but a video by a Saudi group faking an encounter with a suicide bomber has been blasted as one of the most outrageous and irresponsible "prank" videos yet. It starts with menace. A bearded taxi driver wearing traditional Saudi dress looks at the camera and says: "Now we're going to look for a victim." The video cuts to footage from a hidden camera of a...

A Florida man has been arrested after telling a deputy he was speeding because he had to go to the bathroom and ultimately ended up doing so in the back of a patrol car. Lake County Sheriff's officials say 24-year-old Carlos Adonis Ramos-Erazo refused to get out of his vehicle after being nabbed for going 20 miles over the speed limit Thursday. He said he had to go to the bathroom and drove off, hitting the deputy's arm with the vehicle.

A New York father is facing up to 250 years in prison after admitting to a court Monday that he posed as his daughter’s online boyfriend so he could extort nude photographs from her. The Herkimer County man, who was not identified to protect the identity of the 14-year-old victim, pleaded guilty in federal court to 12 counts of enticing a child to produce child pornography and receiving and sending child porn, Syracuse.com reports.

One early evening last October, a group of young men and women were hanging out at the Starbucks on the main drag here, Atlantic Avenue, smoking cigarettes and bullshitting. They were sitting next to a pile of suitcases, the telltale sign of an addict looking for a place to stay. Some get kicked out of their old halfway house because they relapse; others because their insurance coverage has been used up.

Police are investigating a disturbing alleged attack after a video appearing to show an MMA fighter mercilessly beating a juvenile was shared thousands of times on social media. The video appears to show a man, identified by social media users as an American fighter named Tony Cojocaru, callously punch and slap a younger man in the face, head and abdomen dozens of times until he is left cowering in a foetal position on the ground.

A Concord man was arrested for failing to return a 2002 VHS rental movie, “Freddy Got Fingered.” James Meyers showed Channel 9 the arrest warrant Wednesday. It shows Meyers is charged with failure to return rental property, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $200.

China has awarded a prestigious “Pineapple Prize” to a fart-detector. The Pineapple Prizes are organised by Guokr.com, a Chinese popular science publication that named the award after the fruit which in China is said to be so ugly that only the brave and curious would explore its delicious interior. The prizes therefore look for discoveries that are both useful and amusing.

An argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street, say police in northern China. In a video taken on Saturday, several bulldozers are seen ramming each other while passenger cars speed away from the cloud of dust. The video shows one driver running unhurt out of his toppled bulldozer, a fast-moving type of vehicle...

The manager told police he tried to stop the suspects from driving away, but he was hit by their car, according to the report. The manager for the McDonald's at 520 S. Thompson St. called police Monday to report a robbery, according to the report. The manager told police 3 people went through the drive thru and asked for three large waters. Those three parked, went into the restaurant, dumped out the water and then filled the cups with soda, the manager told police.

Air Canada increases fees to change flights before departure. Many parents may dream of taking a flight with their toddler assigned a seat far, far away, but few would consider it a serious — or safe — option. But as Caley and Matt Hartney discovered after booking return flights from Vancouver to Toronto for themselves and their two-year-old daughter, Charlotte, Air Canada only guarantees a child between the ages of two and eight will be seated in the same...

For homeowner Sandra Forbes, the battle against an alleged squatter has taken a troubling turn. "She filed a restraining order, I have that right here, it's signed by a judge," said Forbes. A restraining order, from a woman Forbes says has been living in her Fair Oaks house without her permission for the past two months. "Apparently there's a history behind her," said Forbes. Forbes isn’t the first person to face the same problem.

A top football official in Moscow has praised the Russian fans involved in violence over the weekend in Marseille, saying they had defended their country’s honour and should be forgiven. “I don’t see anything wrong with the fans fighting,” Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter. “Quite the opposite, well done lads, keep it up!” Lebedev, who sits on the executive committee of the Russian football union, is an MP from the nationalist Liberal Democratic party and the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament.

Chris Sevier wants to marry his computer. "This is not a game, OK, this is not some kind of funny scenario," Sevier said. Sevier made his intentions known and went to Utah County Clerk Bryan Thompson to ask for a marriage license. "In this day and age nothing surprises me anymore," Thompson said. "I've been in this office long enough, I've seen lots of different things, but I just said, 'No, I legally cannot do that.'" Sevier named Thompson, Utah Governor Gary Herbert, and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes in the case filed in district court last week.