Man Ticketed for Landing Chopper in Yard
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NEW CANAAN, Conn. - A man who told police he wanted to avoid traffic gridlock has been ticketed for landing a helicopter in his back yard...
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The Sea Knight crash Wednesday is the fifth chopper lost in Iraq in just over two weeks
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A Michigan man was fined for using a local cafe's Wi-Fi connection from his parked car.
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By MICHAEL TUTTON  GREENWOOD, N.S. (CP) - Bill Bond is haunted by the memory of three airmen he was unable to save when a Cormorant helicopter plunged into the ocean off Nova Scotia last summer.
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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - A man who flagged down a police cruiser for a ride to "a house on the hill" was charged with possession of marijuana. Daniel Paul Steinbach, 19, was standing in the middle of the road waving his arms at a police car Saturday night.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Two turns of a screw caused the spectacular crash of a Sea King helicopter onto the deck of a Canadian destroyer at sea last year.
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A lamb on the lam in the Bronx? True. All in one day. The series of animal adventures began around 10 a.m. Wednesday when a former parks commissioner reported spotting a hawk that had crash landed.
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A laser beam was aimed at a police helicopter Friday &#151; one of several incidents involving aircraft across the country in the past week &#151; and federal authorities were questioning someone who had been at a house where they said the light had originated.
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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SHAWANO, Wis. - Deputies got a surprise answer when they asked a man if an item in his bedroom was for smoking marijuana, a criminal complaint says. "That's not a dope pipe, it's my bomb," Eugene Hansen told them, according to the complaint filed in Shawano County Circuit Court.
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PATRAS, Greece (BBC News) - A legal battle is under way here over a parrot that is facing a $650 parking ticket.  The local council says his perch is illegally parked and is obstructing drivers because it partially blocks a metered parking space. Coco the parrot's owner, Lambros Michalopoulos, says the bird will die if it has to move back inside.  Neither side is backing down so now the dispute is going to the courts. Patras's Deputy Mayor Spiros Demartinos is embarrassed that Coco's plight is attracting international attention.
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By Angela Nagel and Susanne Nadeau, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 9--A student and instructor in a UND helicopter had engine trouble Friday morning and put the aircraft down in a field south of Grand Forks.
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A man charged with preparing a terrorist attack is due to appear in court.
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Blog: Chopper pilot suing YouTube is angered that pirated clips appear on the iPhone.
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Â· Motorist denied fitting laser-busting device Â· Businessman is 'first to be convicted' over equipment.
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WABASHA, Minn. - With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph...
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LOS ANGELES - A man was charged with trespassing after he stripped naked, scaled a airport fence, ran across the tarmac and climbed into a plane's wheel well before firefighters talked him out, officials said.