2 fishermen caught cheating at Ohio tournament sentenced to 10-day jail terms, forfeit of $100k boat
Two men who admitted stuffing fish with lead weights and fish fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament last fall have been sentenced to ten-day jail terms and other penalties, including the forfeiture of a boat valued at $100,000.
May the Fourth be โI doโ: Ohio city has โStar Warsโ weddings
When Julia and Robert Jones discovered that a judge from the Akron Municipal Court in Ohio was officiating โStar Warsโ-themed weddings on May the Fourth โ essentially a holiday for fans of the franchise โ the couple felt the force calling them to commit to the ceremony.
Nice try but no potato for New Zealand coupleโs giant find
A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the worldโs largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness World Records wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasnโt, in fact, a potato after all.
Woman dubbed โserial stowawayโ gets 3 years in prison for sneaking onto flights
A 70-year-old woman with a history of slipping past security at airports around the U.S. and sneaking onto flights has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for trespassing at Chicagoโs OโHare International Airport in 2019.
Snowing spiders? The building rainy pattern in Australia can trigger a flood of arachnids
While it can sound like something out of a horror movie, in Australia the transition from late summer to fall can trigger what is known to the locals as spider season. Itโs kind of like our lovebug or mosquito season but is a little different.
Most โHavana syndromeโ cases not linked to US adversary, CIA says
U_S_ officials say the CIA believes it's unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary is using microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack hundreds of American diplomats and intelligence officers who attribute their brain injuries and other symptoms to what's come to be known as โHavana syndrome.โ.