Pa. Man Has Pig Roast in His Basement
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READING, Pa. - A man who had a pig roast in his basement was ordered to remove propane tanks and other cooking equipment after he and 13 others got carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said.  Fire Marshal David A.
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By Susan E. Lindt  SUSAN E. LINDT           A Drumore Township man faces felony charges for allegedly possessing and disseminating child pornography.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 20--La Crosse police found about 55,000 rounds of ammunition, weapons, explosives and drugs inside the South Side house of a man arrested Friday night on felony weapon charges.
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VAIL, Colo. - A 72-year-old woman making pot roast in her kitchen discovered uninvited guests in her home Thursday: a bear and her cub.  The unidentified woman walked into the kitchen and found the bear standing six feet away, apparently surprising it, Vail police Sgt. Dan Torgerson said.
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SCRANTON, Pa. - Schuylkill County Prison officials took an inmate's prosthetic leg when they found tobacco hidden in it, tossed it around until they broke it and refused to return it, the former inmate said in a federal lawsuit against the county, the prison and officials.
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Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs Â by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
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By Ed Meyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 21--RAVENNA -- Portage County prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a gag order to Randy Resh, Bob Gondor and their defense lawyers before they get a new day in court in a decades-old murder case.
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By Tony Lucia, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 11--IT STARTED QUIETLY, right in the heart of downtown Reading, with one man determinedly experimenting with a few ingredients over a stove in a small back room.
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A recent incident in which two men wheeled a corpse to a check-cashing store was reminiscent of the days when Hellâs Kitchen was known for its crime.
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By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. There is a former farmer. There&#39;s a son of the man who invented McDonald&#39;s Styrofoam hamburger boxes.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Police said Wednesday their probe of a pig farm belonging to accused serial killer Robert Pickton has turned up 30 separate DNA samples.
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MAHOPAC, N.Y. - A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morning, spray-painted three pet goats and scattered pages of pornographic magazines on the floor, apparently to harass the property owner, police said Tuesday.
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Short ribs can be cooked in multiple ways.
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Forget the closet. A new lawsuit is accusing R. Kelly of   trapping a former pal in the basement.
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The informant described as spurring the search for Jimmy Hoffa&#039;s remains on property now known as Hidden Dreams Farm is an ailing prison inmate who, according to his former lawyer, first told the FBI about the location 30 years ago.
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HOWELL, Mich. - A businessman's effort to defend his pumpkin-hurling title literally fell short.  Bruce Bradford and his nine-ton contraption held the World Championship Punkin Chunkin title for two years until Sunday.
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I spend anywhere from three to eight hours every week sweating along with a motley crew of local misfits, shelving, sorting, and hauling ton after ton of written matter in a rowhouse basement in Baltimore. We have no heat nor air conditioning, but still, every week, we come and work. Volunteer night is Wednesday, but many of us also work on the weekends, when we're open to the public. There are times when we're freezing and we have to wear coats and gloves inside, making handling books somewhat tricky; other times, we're all soaked with sweat, since it's 90 degrees out and the basement is thick with bodies. One learns to forget about personal space when working at The Book Thing, since you can scarcely breathe without bumping into someone, and we are all so accustomed to having to scrape by each other that most of us no longer bother to say "excuse me" unless some particularly dramatic brushing occurs.