Man dies after accidentally drinking gasoline

Nutty News North Carolina – A Havelock man, Gary Allen Banning, 43, who accidentally set himself on fire died in the hospital.  More

Elementary students expelled for plotting to poison teacher

Nutty News Fresno, California – Three students were expelled from their elementary schools in Fresno, California for attempting to harm their teacher with rat poison in her coffee and cupcake’s icing.  More

Man Bites Off Man’s Ear During Gambling Argument

Nutty News Greendale, Indiana – Indiana man Donald W. Talbott, 23, was arrested after allegedly biting off part of another man’s ear during a heated argument over which one was the better gambler. More

Woman steals Crest Whitestrips she put on her teeth in the store

Nutty News Ellenton, Florida – Police in Florida said they arrested a woman accused of shoplifting $64.19 worth of goods, including Crest Whitestrips that she put on her teeth in the store.  More

Mother needs her sleep

Nutty News Tennessee – A Chattanooga woman has been arrested after police said she threw a drinking glass that hit her son in the head because she was mad that she had been awakened to take her children to school.  More

Man Paid Teens to Spit on Him, That’s OK

Nutty News Thousand Oaks, California – A Los Angeles man has been found not guilty of paying high school students to spit in his face and yell profanities at him for sexual gratification.  More

First test-tube hamburger almost here

Nutty News the Netherlands – The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference.  More

Rolex airport thief nabbed wearing stolen watch

Nutty News Florida – A Sunny Isles man apparently had no idea he was the subject of news reports across the country when Broward Sheriff’s detectives arrested him wearing a $6,500 Rolex watch that investigators say was stolen last month from a passenger at an airport security checkpoint.  More

Son, mom, grandpa accused of making meth

Nutty News Florida – Four people representing three generations of a single family on suspicions they were working together to manufacture methamphetamine.  More

Man drinks poison and collapses after guilty verdict

Nutty News Florida – After a man who threatened to shoot himself in the Broward County courthouse was found guilty of armed trespass and reckless display of a weapon, he drank an unknown liquid and collapsed in a Broward County courtroom.  More

Man accused of killing and eating cats

Nutty News Bakersfield, California – A Californian man is due in court, accused of killing and eating cats.  More

Kid’s homemade lunch replaced by food police

Nutty News North Carolina – A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value.  More

Sorry, wrong car

Nutty News Louisiana – Kendall L. Reid, 36, faces charges of assault, drive by shooting and aggravated criminal damage to property.  More

Man arrested for frying hamster in a pan for laughs

Nutty News UK – Police have arrested a 20-year-old student who is alleged to have cooked a hamster in a frying pan when a raucous house party got out of control. More

Driver Accidentally Enters Taxiway At Airport

Nutty News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – A driver who was lost near the airport managed to drive right through a checkpoint, past a Philadelphia police officer in a patrol car, as well as two department of aviation employees.  More

Teacher in student molest case paid $40,000 to resign

Nutty News California – The Los Angeles Unified School District paid Mark Berndt, the teacher at the center of the Miramonte Elementary child abuse scandal, $40,000 to drop the challenge to his dismissal.  More

Crooks hide stolen jewelry in Chinese food

Nutty News Martin County, Florida – Not even the tasty General Tso’s chicken could hide the stolen jewelry placed inside a plate of Chinese food by three men and a teen wanted for burglary in Melbourne.  Full Article

Dad Kills Couple For Deleting Daughter On Facebook

Nutty News Mountain City, Tennessee – A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple.  More

Two-year-old points loaded gun at police

Nutty News Memphis, Tennessee – A two-year-old boy pointed a loaded gun at police officers in Memphis after they were called to reports of three children being left unattended in a still-running car.  More

Man robs bank wearing shorts on his head

Nutty News Florida – Imagine you’re the teller working the front window at a quiet bank in the Keys, when 43-year-old Eli Escalera walks up and hands you a note: “Give me what are 20s and 50s.”  More

Judge says he was only resting his eyes

Nutty News Gothenburg, Sweden – A retrial has been ordered for an appeals court case in Gothenburg, Sweden, after the presiding judge fell asleep during proceedings, lawyers said.  More

Family lost in woods for 6 days looking for mushrooms

Nutty News Oregon – A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead.  More

Woman says her big boobies hinder field sobriety test

Nutty News Port St. Lucie, Florida – A Florida woman accused of driving under the influence told a sheriff’s deputy her big boobies hindered her ability to take a field sobriety test.  More

Toothless bank robber says she needed dentures

Nutty News Waynesburg, Pennsylvania – A woman who appeared to not have any teeth has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.  More

Teacher charged with punching a student in the face

Nutty News Pennsylvania – A teacher at Presbyterian Children’s Village has been charged with punching a student in the face, police said.  More

Man adopts adult girlfriend as his daughter

Nutty News Wellington, Florida – A Florida businessman has adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend in a civil case which one judge said was taking the court “into a legal twilight zone.”  More