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Umm … where am I supposed to land this thing? A ham-fisted pilot from Virginia nearly caused a major disaster at Kennedy Airport when he brought his single-engine plane down for a landing in the path of a Boeing 747, sending controllers scrambling to get other planes out of his way, according to a published report. Hundreds of lives were threatened over the weekend as small-towner John Prendergast la-dee-da-ed his way around the sky trying to figure out where on earth Republic Airport in Long Island was, reports The New York Post. "I don't know what he's doing – he's...

PHOENIX (AP) - Officers responding to a report of hysterical screams found an 8-year-old girl partially clothed and four boys, barely in their teens, running from an empty shed. The boys, ages 9 to 14, face charges ranging from sexual assault to kidnapping, police said Thursday. Authorities in Phoenix say it's one of the most horrific cases they've ever seen. Investigators said the boys lured the girl to an empty shed on July 16 under the pretense of offering her gum. The boys then held the girl down while they took turns raping her, police said.

A 13-year-old schoolgirl has been arrested by armed police - after they discovered a sub-machine gun in her wardrobe. The teenager was taken into custody yesterday afternoon after the M16-style rifle - capable of firing up to 900 rounds-per-minute - was seized at a flat in Croydon, South London. Around 15 officers carrying sub-machine guns, hydraulic battering rams and combat shields raced to the address after hearing reports of the weapon on the estate.

Three children found shut inside a Love Field area motel bathroom this month were so emaciated that they vomited when child protective workers first tried to feed them, authorities say. Their ribs protruded. Their cheeks and eyes sank into dark hollows. Their lips were dry, swollen and cracked. Authorities say the children – ages 6, 10 and 11 – were kept inside the bathroom day and night for almost a year, maybe longer.

An Ohio man, fed up with deceptive junk mail, made the mistake of losing his temper while on the phone with a St. Louis company pitching an extended auto-service contract. Now he finds himself behind bars, where he is charged with making a terrorist threat.

Full title: Boy, 14, collapses after chewing nicotine gum equivalent to 180 cigarettes in just 25 minutes... handed out at school A boy of 14 collapsed after chewing 45 sticks of nicotine gum - equivalent to 180 Marlboro Light cigarettes - in just 25 minutes. Aiden Williams overdosed on the Nicorette gum, designed to help smokers quit the habit, after it was handed out by counsellors at his school.

GLADWIN, Mich. — Police have arrested an Oklahoma man on suspicion of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. Trent Perault, 27, of Duncan, was taken into custody Sunday after he and his girlfriend took the toddler to the emergency room with unexplained injuries to her groin, according to Gladwin Police Chief Charles Jones. Hospital officials determined the girl had been sexually assaulted while her mother was at work and Perault was babysitting.

Police divers have ended the reign of terror of a huge fish that was attacking swimmers in a Swiss lake. The zander, which was 70 centimetres (two feet three inches) long and weighed eight kilos (17.5 pounds), was harpooned on Sunday after it bit six swimmers over the weekend, fish warden Fabio Croci told local media.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. An administration official said Obama will announce the nomination of Dr. Regina Benjamin later Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the official announcement.

A tiny Mississippi delta town has elected its first black mayor after the white incumbent, unopposed for 30 years, faced a young challenger inspired by President Barack Obama's feat in winning the White House. In a shock result in Alligator (population 220), Tommie “Tomaso” Brown, 38, defeated Robert Fava, the mayor since 1979, owner of the general store and once his opponent’s boss, by 37 votes to 27.

CHEBOYGAN, MICH.: An Ohio man has admitted biting his girlfriend's 2-year-old son to teach him that biting people is wrong. Michael Schweibinz, 23, of Columbus, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Cheboygan County Circuit Court to second-degree child abuse.

Burner charged with desecrating a flag A teen claimed she was "making a statement" when she lit an American flag on fire with a cigarette lighter and then stomped on it in the middle of traffic, according to police. The incident occurred just hours after Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks celebrations across the region. Two officers said they saw Rebecca Ellen McKimmie, 18, of Ocean City, Md., light the flag on fire early Sunday morning while standing between two lanes of traffic near the Route 50 Bridge. Police said once it was lit she then stomped on it in...

Coffin Exhumed Monday After Investigators Link Body To Connecticut Family; 2-Year-Old Found In Plastic Bag Cops: Dumping May Be Part Of Some Bizarre Grave-Digging Ritual STAMFORD, Conn. (CBS) ― Police believe the body of the 2-year-old child discovered in the Passaic River on Sunday may have been removed from a grave at a Connecticut cemetery. The body was discovered by a fisherman on the river's bank and was wrapped in a plastic bag. Officer Richard Conklin said a coffin at Stamford Cemetery was exhumed after New Jersey medical examiners linked the body to a Connecticut family. "On Monday, July 6,...

PICKENS COUNTY, AL (WVUA) - Authorities in Pickens County are trying to track a pack of wild dogs they believe may have killed a 96-year-old man and consumed his remains. Israel Pope, Jr. was reported missing Monday night and police found his remains in a field on his property, about a quarter of a mile from his house. Police believe Pope had been consumed by a pack of dogs authorities tracked to a den under an abandoned mobile home. Investigators found pieces of Pope's clothing and what may have been human remains at the mobile home. He said it was...

Full Title: Man arrested on Oklahoma City homicide complaint in drowning death of 2-year-old at Lake Stanley Draper Oklahoma City police have arrested a man on a homicide complaint in the drowning death of a 2-year-old girl. Allie Croom, 2, drowned at Lake Stanley Draper Thursday, Master Sgt. Gary Knight said. Donnie Reeser, 29, a boyfriend of the girl's mother, was arrested Thursday night, Knight said. About 5:30 p.m. police were called to Midwest City Regional Hospital where detectives began looking into the girl's death. Investigators developed probable cause to believe that Reeser was at Lake Stanley Draper with the...

PRAGUE — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol released a dashboard camera video late Friday that was recorded during an altercation between a patrol trooper and an emergency medical technician. Featured Gallery The patrol said the move is contrary to what the agency normally does but decided to release the video because of the high level of public interest and the fact that the release "would not affect the administrative review” of the patrol’s investigation of the incident, according to a statement released late Friday. "We’ve been well aware of the fact that this incident has drawn enormous attention, but made the...

The allegation involves the embezzlement of money confiscated from a detained motorist. MUSKOGEE — The sheriff and undersheriff of McIntosh County were charged in federal court Friday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of a large sum of cash that was confiscated from a detained motorist. Sheriff Terry Alan Jones, 36, and Undersheriff Mykol Travis Brookshire, 38, both of Eufaula, are charged in U.S. District Court with depriving Adan Sandival of his civil rights during a traffic stop on Thursday, said Sheldon Sperling, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee. "It's a good chunk of change," said...

Top White House adviser David Axelrod on Monday said that President Obama's trips to Europe, Turkey and Latin America in the last three weeks have made anti-American sentiment uncool and "created a new receptivity" to U.S. interests. "What's happened is anti-Americanism isn't cool anymore," Mr. Axelrod said, speaking to an audience of a few hundred at a conference in Washington sponsored by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

A city building inspector warned David Schutt and his roommates that they had to do something about the flocks of pooping pigeons infesting their University of Utah-area residence. David said he even had pigeons in his room. But when he tried to chase them off, he found himself behind bars on Easter Sunday, suspected of animal cruelty and shooting a weapon inside city limits. The alleged crime? Killing, he says by accident, one of the feathered horde with a BB gun. Schutt , an engineering student at the University of Utah, says he was just trying to scatter the birds...

McALESTER (AP) — An Antlers woman is facing a charge of attempted maiming in which prosecutors say she tried to pull out the eye of a motel maid in McAlester. Twenty-six-year-old Tommie Sue Cofflet is accused of attacking the maid after the group she was with was asked to leave the motel. Court documents say Cofflet held the maid in a headlock and began digging at her eye and caused severe trauma to the left eyeball. Prosecutors did not immediately return a phone call for comment.