QUIRKY WORLD ... Intruder boarded a private plane with intention to fly it
Police in Sauget, Illinois, say the 38-year-old St. Louis woman entered a 20-seat Global Express jet on the tarmac of the St Louis Downtown Airport at about 4am.
Detective Sergeant Vito Parisi said the woman had started driving to Lambert-St Louis International Airport but instead wound up at the smaller airfield across the Mississippi River. The plane, which is owned by a Hong Kong bank, was undergoing maintenance.
Local prosecutors are reviewing the incident to determine whether to file criminal charges such as trespassing or burglary. Officials don’t believe that the incident was connected to terrorism, but the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and federal prosecutors are involved in the investigation, and the local fire department and a county bomb squad responded as a precaution.
Parisi said the woman — who surrendered peacefully after her entry on the plane was caught on security cameras — was familiar with airplane operations.
Sauget Police Chief Patrick Delaney said the woman had packed for a short vacation. She expressed an interest in flying to both New York and China but was not a trained pilot.
A man charged with setting up a fake drink-driving checkpoint while pretending to be a Pennsylvania state trooper must now stand trial.
State troopers from Somerset say 19-year-old Logan Shaulis was drunk when he parked his vehicle diagonally across state Route 601 and set up road flares at 4am on May 30.
A motorist who stopped says Shaulis claimed he was a trooper with the “drug and alcohol division” and demanded to see a driver’s licence, registration, and insurance papers.
When police arrived, police say Shaulis tried to hand a BB pistol to the car’s passenger, saying he could not get caught with it.
A dragon with razor-sharp teeth that preys on large mammals has moved to London.
Ganas, a 1.7m Komodo dragon, has moved from Denmark to London Zoo’s Land of the Giants exhibit.
Komodo dragons are the heaviest lizards on the planet, weighing up to 136kg, and have survived for millions of years, but are now classified as endangered. They are native to Indonesia.
Britons may be known for their charitable giving — but research has found many would be more likely to sponsor someone if they thought they were good-looking.
The British Heart Foundation also said almost a fifth of UK adults would be less likely to donate money to a colleague taking part in a charity challenge if they missed them out of a tea round at work.
Its poll of 2,000 adults found well over a quarter of men (29%) and around one in nine women (12%) would be more likely to sponsor someone if they found them attractive. Many also said they would only part with some of their own pay packet if there was someone they were trying to impress.
Police are trying to establish how a child’s gravestone ended up at a bus station in northern New Jersey.
An employee found the headstone at the NJ Transit Bus Terminal in Nutley, about 24km west of New York City. The headstone is engraved with the name Max Ferreira, date of birth June 16 1990. The eight-year-old apparently died on September 29 1998.
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