A police officer who reported being shot by a “gunman” has had her gun seized by detectives who now believe she accidentally shot herself in the leg. The officer radioed for assistance, saying she’d been shot. Moments later comrades arrived to carry her to a waiting ambulance. But the wounded cop never mentioned she had shot herself and a subsequent ground and helicopter search for a “gunman” commenced. More…
Four trustees of Detroit’s two public pension funds are heading to a Hawaiian beach resort this weekend with their $22,000 tab paid for by the funds, which are mired in claims of mismanagement and said to be at least $600 million underfunded. More…
He delivered pizza for Papa John’s in Brooklyn — but cops said he made his real dough selling coke on the side. The deliveryman dropped off high-priced cocaine orders for years as he made the rounds in Sunset Park delivering pizza, cheesesticks and buffalo wings, according to police. More…
Tesla’s stock value has recently doubled to more than $90 a share. That gives them a total market value of $10.6 billion, greater than that of Italian automaker Fiat, worth less than $8 billion. In the first quarter of this year, Fiat sold 1 million cars and made a $40 million profit. Tesla sold 4,900 cars and lost $53 million – or more than $10,000 per car. More…
NASCAR driver Dick Trickle is dead at the age of 71 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He allegedly called 911 from a local cemetery and said “there would be a dead body and it would be his.” More…
A 19-year-old suspected burglar continues to recover after Palm Bay police said he was beaten, kicked and shot with a stun gun by victims defending their residence as he and at least three other companions attempted to carry out a home invasion. More…
For a brief moment, it looked like the Georgia man who suspects he owns the long sought-after recipe for Coca-Cola was $15 million richer because of it. According to the auction listing, someone purchased it using eBay’s "Buy It Now" option on Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, the winning bidder was a 15-year-old kid, who needless to say, was a few dollars short of $15 million. More…
Fourteen people were hospitalized and even more were injured after an escalator stopped and changed directions at San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Center on Wednesday afternoon, according to convention center officials. More…
An Arizona State University student who passed out and was left in a wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note to tell doctors that he had participated in a drinking competition apparently put back about 20 shots of tequila and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.47 percent – nearly six times the legal limit for driving. More…
A man hired “smashers” to help him pound his car to a pulp outside the Qingdao Auto Show on Tuesday in what he says was a protest against bad service by the dealership, the China Car Times reports. The owner said the company responsible for Maserati distribution in the Qingdao area repaired his $430,000 Quattroporte with second-hand parts rather than the new parts he paid for. More…
What with all the flashing screens, dinging bells, and glazed-over customers absorbed in the games at hand, a Chuck E. Cheese arcade bears quite a resemblance to the slot machine section of a casino. Are kids, in fact, gambling in between their pizza and soda? More…
Two suspects have been accused of trying to steal a police car – while the officers were in it. Investigators say they tried to break into an unmarked Tempe police car through the back seat, not realizing two uniformed officers were sitting in the front seats. More…
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