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Creepy, Quirky & Crazy Stories
A few years ago, photographer Tom Boyd and I used that theme to guide us in a search for the peculiar stories that help to define life in Washington state. Before that, I conducted a similar probe into Clark County lore with help from several local research assistants.
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The Outer Limits
A guided tour of the peculiarities that make Washington state unique. A collection of stories and photographs by Columbian staff. |
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Balloon rides come to New York's Central Park
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Want to look down on the rich and famous? Go eye to eagle-eye with a winged predator? See the sun rise over Queens? How better to do this than from a balloon 30 stories above Central Park? The opportunity arises, so to speak, on Friday when a privat... |
Boy, 11, bites pit bull to fend off attack
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte... |
Peacock hitches ride with pair along Pa. roadway
CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. (AP) -- Picking up hitchhikers can be risky, but this one in northeast Pennsylvania was a bird of a different feather. Jerry Dimick and a friend were driving along Route 307 near Clarks Summit on Wednesday when they spotted a peacock standing by t... |
Deputies intercept text message to capture suspect
TERRELL, N.C. (AP) -- After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, deputies in North Carolina let their fingers do the chasing to catch a second suspect. Catawba County sheriff's Maj. Coy Reid says that when deputies caught a 16-year-old suspect... |
Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed. Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old... |
Pet rabbit credited with saving couple from fire
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A pet rabbit is credited with saving a couple from a fire that swept through their home in the southern city of Melbourne. Metropolitan Fire Brigade commander Mick Swift said the husband returned home from a night shift early Thursday an... |
In Portland, Ore., parking laws include police
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry. Officer Chadd Stensgaard, who parked his patrol car illegally while making a dinner-break stop at a Japanese restaurant, must pay a $35 fine, Traffic Court Judge Terry Han... |
Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Bob and Leona Ehrfurth say the noise that's been plaguing them for two years sounds something like a rumbling motor, with a subtle vibration that won't quit. Then it stops - especially when they try to show city officials or acoustic experts... |
'Pantyhose Bandit' causes sheer annoyance in Mass.
MILFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Dozens of pairs of pantyhose have been left near a Milford school bus stop - causing sheer annoyance in the neighborhood. The pantyhose - sometimes new, sometimes used - has been left on Camp Street for more than two years. They're almost alwa... |
117 cats, raccoon, and rabbit found at Omaha home
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Humane society workers have found 117 cats, a raccoon and a rabbit in a north Omaha house. The discovery came Wednesday after Council Bluffs, Iowa, police caught the 54-year-old woman who lives at the house reportedly stealing cat food. Officials... |
Stolen motorcycle found after 34 years in N.J.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was stolen nearly 34 years ago in Rhode Island has surfaced in central New Jersey. The 1971 Sportster was purchased on eBay for $2,400 by Michael Meistrell of Cranford. The Union County prosecuto... |
Teacher lasts 20 hours on carnival ride, wins $1K
 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota high school teacher has lasted 20 hours on a carnival ride to win the Ride the Tide Challenge at the Mall of America. Jim Salava, 40, of Oakdale, was declared the winner at the Nickelodeon Universe theme park when his final opp... |
R.I. police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent - the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead. Stanley Kobierowski was taken to a hospital, put in the detoxification un... |
Bubble burst? Off-Broadway show's suds stolen
NEW YORK (AP) -- The bubble might have burst for off-Broadway's "Gazillion Bubbles Show." Someone has stolen the show's specialized soapy bubble solution, which takes two months to make. A show spokesman says 3.4 tons of bubble solution and 6,000 toys went missing i... |
Man finds second long python in Maine in a week
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) -- A man is having trouble sleeping since he found a python snake about 9 feet long under the engine of his pickup truck. Harley Burgess's shocking discovery Saturday is the second of its kind in less than a week in Maine. Last Wednesday, a Gorh... |
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