Man Gets Lost Ring Back for Second Time
John Carney was dumping a load of brush at the local waste transfer station last week when he noticed a man’s gold wedding band partially buried in the sand. Intrigued by the “Ed and Linda” and “June 9, 1996″ engravings inside the band, Carney decided to do some detective work. With the help of local [...]
Escaped Flamingo Spotted with Companion
After two years on the lam, a pink flamingo that escaped from the Sedgwick County Zoo has been spotted with a wild Caribbean flamingo in a ship channel area of southwest Louisiana. The latest sighting three weeks ago was in the Calcasieu Ship Channel on private land accessible only by boat. Officials with the zoo [...]
Nude Self-Portrait on a Rug Pinched
Tamera Bremer titled the life-size nude self-portrait she laboriously wove into a rug “the sexy sex: all-nude review rug one.” Somebody apparently found it fetching, and late Monday it vanished from an exhibit floor at Linfield College.Bremer said the latch-hook work took thousands of hours and she valued it in the five-figure range. It was [...]
Woman Jailed for 50 Days Over Cat Urine
Cynthia Hunter spent almost two months in jail over a vial of cat urine. Hunter, 38, was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store. Deputies added charges of possession of a controlled substance after finding a vial containing a yellow substance in her [...]