KKK confronts Westboro Baptist Church

Nutty News Washington DC - Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met with an unlikely group of counterprotesters at Arlington Cemetery.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Girl has 30 ants in her ears

Nutty News Taiwan - A 16-year-old girl in Taiwan had more than 30 ants in her ears because of her fancy for snacks.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Horse herpes forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies

Nutty News Farmington, Utah - While the state has yet to officially cancel any events involving horses that might have been exposed to a local recent equine herpes outbreak, owners and arenas are taking precautions.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Bikinis cause increase in car wrecks

Nutty News San Diego, California - Mark McCullough, a 19-year veteran with the San Diego Police Department and spokesman for its busy traffic division, says fender-benders and other non-fatal collisions rise by about 25% during beach season, which starts in May and continues through the end of summer at the popular beach city.  More   All Nutty News Stories

450 prisoners with a high risk of violence released

Nutty News California - Computer errors prompted California prison officials to mistakenly release an estimated 450 inmates with a high risk for violence as unsupervised parolees in a program meant to ease overcrowding.  More   All Nutty News Stories

$100,000 Fellowships To Not Go To College

Nutty News USA - Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, is proposing a controversial path toward more rapid innovation.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Mom left 9-month-old at home, goes bowling

Nutty News Pensacola, Florida - A 20-year-old Pensacola woman stands accused of leaving her 9-month-old son home alone while on a date at a local bowling alley.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Casino staff forced to wear flea collars

Nutty News New Zealand - Workers at a casino in New Zealand’s largest city have been forced to wear flea collars to work in a bid to ward off fleas.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Man Cuts Woman’s Hair At Bus Stop

Nutty News Sao Paulo, Brazil - Brazilian police say a thief cut off and stole a woman’s long hair while she waited at a bus stop.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Priest set on fire by man during mass

Nutty News Lithuania - Father Remigijus Kuprys, 46, managed to extinguish the flames with the help of worshippers, but suffered facial burns.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Man arrested for playing checkers

Nutty News North Carolina - When Otis the town drunk goes to jail on “The Andy Griffith Show,” it always produces some comedic moments.  More   All Nutty News Stories

College Lecturer Calls Black Women Ugly

Nutty News London - As an investigation by the London School of Economics continues into a blog posting by one of its lecturers who questioned why black women are “less physically attractive” than other women, a growing number of critics are calling for his ouster.  More  All Nutty News Stories

Girl Suspended Over Facebook Post

Nutty News Concord, New Hampshire - A New Hampshire woman has spoken of her outrage after her 13-year-old daughter was suspended from school over a Facebook post in which said she wished Usama bin Laden killed her math teacher.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Two fatties must buy four seats

Nutty News New York - Southwest Airlines has apologized to a mother and daughter who said they got rough treatment at the airport.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Watermelons blow up in fields

Nutty News China - Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating fields of land mines instead of the bounty of fruit they wanted.  More   All Nutty News Stories

Naked Burglar Caught Pretending To Be Asleep

Nutty News Pennsylvania - Police said they found a 20-year-old Penn State student naked, hiding under the covers, pretending to be asleep in a bedroom.  More  All Nutty News Stories

Mothers kill daughters for marrying wrong men

Nutty News India - Two Muslim mothers in a northern Indian town have been arrested on accusations they killed their daughters for dishonoring the family by eloping with Hindu men.  More  All Nutty News Stories

Man calls 911, shortchanged in crack deal

Nutty News North Charleston, South Carolina - Police arrested a 41-year-old man after he called 911 and told officers that he was not given the correct change after buying crack cocaine from a drug dealer.  More

Woman Bites Boyfriend’s Lip Off

Nutty News Las Cruces, New Mexico - Police arrested a woman who allegedly bit off the lower lip of her boyfriend during a heated argument.  More

Boy steals man’s car while man was having a heart attack

Nutty News Pittsburgh - Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy accused of robbing an usher who worked at the baseball stadium where the Pittsburgh Pirates play after he stopped his car while having a heart attack on his way home from an extra-inning game.  More

Pictures: None of the men looked like bin Laden

Nutty News Islamabad - Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.  More

White House calls paper about remark

Nutty News California - A small weekly paper in California claims that a White House official asked it to remove a sentence from a benign feature about Marine One because it reflected poorly on first lady Michelle Obama.  More

Wife Sues Husband For Depriving Her Of Sex

Nutty News Dubai - An Emirati man was being sued for 45 million dirhams ($12.25 million) for not having sex with his wife, who claimed that his failure to perform caused her mental anguish, a court heard.  More

Feds punish Texas, refuse assistance for wildfires

Nutty News Austin, Texas - Gov. Rick Perry criticized the White House after learning that his request for a federal major disaster declaration and additional help had been rejected.  More

Woman Loses Phone, Nude Pictures Sent

Nutty News Spartanburg County, South Carolina - A woman recently called police to file a report about a missing cell phone.  More

Students use window instead of door

Nutty News San Marcos, Texas - A Texas State student has died from injuries she sustained after she and two others jumped out of a dorm room window.  More

Shipowners take up arms to fight pirates

Nutty News Poole, England - Upstairs in a public house on the English south coast, 18 men are preparing to take on the pirates of the Indian Ocean.  More

Man high on bath salts kills neighbor’s goat

Nutty News Charleston, West Virginia - Police say an Alum Creek man high on bath salts killed his neighbor’s pygmy goat and that neighbors found him in his bedroom, dressed in a bra and panties, next to the dead animal.  More

Workers must sign pledges, no suicides

Nutty News China - Factories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide.  More

Man arrested, put hand up flight attendant’s skirt

Nutty News - A passenger who was flying from London to New York is facing a federal criminal charge after he allegedly placed his hand up the skirt of a flight attendant.  More

Man Attacks Cops With Weed Whacker

Nutty News Middletown, New Jersey - An irate customer trying to return a weed whacker to a Sears store ended up in jail on felony charges after the return process didn’t end well.  More

Mummified Body of Former Playmate Found in Home

Nutty News Los Angeles - The mummified body of a former Playboy playmate who once starred in the cult film “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” was found in her Los Angeles home.  More

Man Escapes Prison to Avenge His Mother’s Shooting

Nutty News Springfield, Massachusetts - A convict in Springfield, Mass., who escaped from prison and allegedly went on a shooting rampage killing one and wounding two police officers, apparently escaped to avenge the recent shooting of his mother.  More

Woman gets chainsaw embedded in her

Nutty News Oak Lawn, Illinois - Teresa Salcich, a mother of four, was helping her parents around the house when she decided to grab her dad’s chainsaw and trim some tree branches.  More

Baby delivered at DUI checkpoint

Nutty News Plainville, Connecticut - Plainville police had an unusual situation at their DUI checkpoint when a woman went into labor. More

Cops bust cockfighting ring at children’s party

Nutty News Dayton, Texas - Acting on an anonymous tip, deputies from the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office showed up at a property in Dayton, Texas - northeast of Houston - to investigate a report of a cockfighting operation.  More

Group of deaf friends stabbed for using sign language

Nutty News Hallendale Beach, Florida - A group of deaf friends were stabbed at a bar in Florida after a woman mistook their sign language for gang signs.  More

Woman gets $258,000, Shopping Cart Wheels Jam

Nutty News Connecticut - The Willimantic jury awarded the damages to Alice Mae Suits, a retired school social worker who was hospitalized as a result of the injuries she suffered when the wheels on a cart she was pushing stopped and the cart sheared off the front of her shins, said her lawyer.  More

Students rides to prom in giant weiner

Nutty News Dallas, Texas - Ben Ross recently survived a serious accident but he still made it to his prom in the vehicle of his dreams - a giant hot dog.  More