Author: Alex Horton
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DUI suspect smiles for mug shot hours after crash that left a woman dead
Angenette Welk’s dark hair falls neatly onto her shoulders in the mug shot, her wide grin bearing teeth more vivid than the white stripes of her jail uniform. At that moment and less than four miles away from the jail in Marion County, Florida, doctors rushed to save the life of Sandra Clarkson, a victim…
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U.S. jets intercept pair of Russian bombers off Alaskan coast
Two Russian long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by a pair of F-22 Raptor fighter jets on Friday, the military said. The Tu-95 bombers were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands, where they were visually identified and shadowed by the U.S. jets…
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A Yellowstone geyser has experienced unusual eruptions lately — and scientists can’t explain why
The Steamboat Geyser at Yellowstone National Park can spout 300 feet of scalding water into the air, a feature of the world’s tallest active geyser. That is known. What isn’t known is why is the geyser has erupted three times in the past six weeks, including one event on Friday in an unusual pattern that…
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Whole Foods slammed over ‘Yellow Fever’ restaurant. The owner says it’s not racist
Kelly Kim and her husband wanted the name of their new pan-Asian restaurant to stand out, avoiding bland or stereotypical phrases, like bamboo, dragon and lotus. Then it hit them. Yellow Fever. “That’s memorable,” Kim recalls saying to her husband Michael before they opened their first location in late 2013, in a Saturday interview with…
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A Colorado woman flying back from France brought an apple through Customs. It cost her $500.
An apple one day did not keep customs away, a Colorado woman has learned. Crystal Tadlock was given an apple sealed in a wrapper on her Delta Air Lines flight from Paris on Wednesday. She was not hungry at the time and figured it would be a good snack for her second leg back to…
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Starbucks apologizes after employee calls police on black men waiting at a table
Starbucks apologized Saturday to two black men arrested at a Philadelphia store in an incident that has led to accusations of racial profiling by the company and police. Cellphone videos captured the tense moment Thursday afternoon when at least six Philadelphia Police Department officers stood over two seated black men, asking them to leave. A…
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A crying toddler, a flying tub of popcorn, and a ‘Last Jedi’ screening that led to arrests
We’ve all been there. Someone talks during the movie in the theater. Sighs permeate as everyone waits for someone else to confront the offender. But most people let a 2-year-old girl slide. That’s not the case with Keri Karman, police say, who is accused of raining popcorn and the empty tub on a child at…
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An American says she fell asleep with a headache — and woke up with a British accent
Michelle Myers’s accent is global, but she has never left the country. The Arizona woman says she has gone to bed with extreme headaches in the past and woke up speaking with what sounds like a foreign accent. At various points, Australian and Irish accents have inexplicably flowed from her mouth for about two weeks,…
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Exotic dancers march on the streets to protest crackdown on New Orleans strip clubs
Waves of exotic dancers took to the streets Thursday after strip clubs were shuttered in crackdowns rocking Bourbon Street in New Orleans just 11 days before Mardi Gras. Undercover stings revealed prostitution at eight strip clubs on or near the booze-soaked magnet for tourists, police said. Police Chief Michael Harrison said in a news conference…
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A plane carrying dozens of plumbers was forced to turn back because of toilet problems
Soon after takeoff, a crew member on the flight from Oslo noticed a problem with the toilets on a plane flush with plumbers. The incident occurred Saturday morning on a Norwegian Air Shuttle flight with more than 80 plumbing industry workers heading to Munich for a trade event. About 70 plumbers from the Rorkjop company were on…