A Pittsburgh woman says she managed to chase a stranger out of her home with a broken curtain rod after finding him coming up her stairs shortly after midnight. Madalyn “Maddy” Durmis said the man had forced his way through the front door of the Greenfield home she shares with a roommate. When she confronted…
A Florida grand jury followed $10 million from a Medicaid-related settlement through a state-supported charity, two nonprofit organizations, and eventually into political committees and the Republican Party of Florida. Then, after concluding that taxpayer money had been misappropriated and used for political purposes, the grand jury reached another conclusion: It did not have enough evidence…
A group of children twisting a playground swing in Pennsylvania managed to produce considerably more than a dizzy ride. The swing’s chain broke, and Springdale Borough divided the repair bill among five children it said were involved. Each child’s share came to about $59, according to the borough. Three families paid. The charges involving their…
A Texas woman trying to outrun hundreds of Africanized honeybees made it across a storage facility with the swarm following her, only to discover that the automatic gate standing between her and the outside world had one problem: it was waiting for a car. Rachel Kelly-McKee was stung more than 300 times during the Aug….
A Florida man has been arrested nearly six months after a 1-year-old child drank from a sippy cup that was later found to have a bag of methamphetamine at the bottom. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office says 46-year-old Mark Allen Windham was arrested on August 22, becoming the fifth person charged in connection with the…
A California school district wanted electric bikes away from its younger students’ campuses. The bikes did not necessarily disappear. Some of them moved across the property line. Students at Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach who continue riding e-bikes to school have been parking them on nearby public streets, and CBS Los Angeles found residents…
A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of a 22-year-old man who died after riding the X2 roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain has been settled shortly before the case was scheduled to go to trial. Anne and William Hawley sued Magic Mountain LLC and roller coaster manufacturer S&S Worldwide following the June 2022…
An Ohio construction crew went looking for the source of an unusual noise inside an excavator and came away with a new employee. RiverReach Construction operating supervisor Chase Guello was checking a Komatsu excavator at a job site in Leavittsburg on July 14 when he heard what he described as a faint beeping or screeching…
A driver whose vehicle ended up submerged in a Virginia creek had already made it roughly 80 yards from the end of a dock by the time rescuers arrived Friday night. He wasn’t alone out there. A bystander had taken a kayak into Chesconessex Creek and was helping keep the driver afloat as fire crews…