Quirky World ... Ear biter is cleared of assault at hearing
A Kennebec County Superior Court jury cleared Dylan Nathaniel Hendsbee of charges connected to the fight in April 2013 in which a third man suffered a fractured jaw.
The 22-year-old Gardiner man testified that he was being choked by Jason Robert Kimball and biting his ear was the only way to defend himself.
Kimball had come to the aid of another man who was on Hendsbee’s family’s property and had not left after being warned he was trespassing.
The Kennebec Journal reports that Hendsbee’s attorney said his client was trying to get strangers off his property and had every right to use force.
Famous father of quintuplets to face fraud trial
USA: A North Las Vegas man who gained media attention when his wife gave birth to quintuplets last year, is scheduled for a February trial in an alleged real estate scheme.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said 43-year-old Deon Derrick Derrico and his 23-year-old co-defendant Olujuwon Devin Bryant are accused of forging homeowners’ signatures on deeds to obtain abandoned homes and rent them for a profit.
Derrico and Bryant have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including theft and fraud.
Police in Provo, Utah, have arrested a 46-year-old woman accused of attempting to buy methamphetamine from an off-duty police officer and claiming the purchase was a birthday gift for her sister.
Heather Rodriguez was arrested after she approached the off-duty officer and displayed a glass pipe. Authorities say she then told police she was trying to buy methamphetamine for her sister’s birthday.
The Daily Herald reports Rodriguez was arrested and booked into the Utah County Jail on several drug charges.
A playful Border Terrier has bounced back from a serious health scare after a ball went unnoticed in its stomach for two years.
Trixie the dog had come down with a mysterious illness and after becoming concerned her owner took her into hospital for a scan. This showed an object in her stomach which after surgery was found to be a bouncy ball she had swallowed two years before.
A massive traffic backup caused by standing water on the motorway into Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport prompted desperate travellers to get out of their cars and walk along the road, with their luggage in tow.
Flooding closed Interstate 190 to one lane about a mile from the domestic terminals on Tuesday after heavy rains hit the area overnight. O’Hare is the nation’s second-busiest airport.
The Illinois Department of Transportation said a pumping station channelling storm runoff into a river failed. Snow plows eventually pushed water off the roadway.
Vandals broke into a Maryland petting zoo this week and painted graffiti on a sow and her piglets, police said.
The taggers used blue veterinary antiseptic spray to paint “Hello my pretty” on the 650-pound, three-year-old mother at the Green Meadows Petting Farm in Monrovia, Maryland.
Each of the 11 seven-day-old piglets had a letter spraypainted on it, but farmer Ken Keyes, the Green Meadows owner, is not sure what word or words they might be.
More graffiti painted on a wall said “Urbana Rules,” a likely reference to nearby Urbana High School, Keyes said.
“I think it was high school kids,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a middle-aged couple that said ‘let’s go tag some pigs’.”
No animals were harmed. The vandals also stole a tortoise named Henrietta.
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