Tag: Offbeat
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Offbeat | Japanese musician cancels Iran concert as band has Americans
A Japanese new-age musician named Kitaro has reportedly cancelled a concert in Iran because his band includes Americans, just after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. ... -
Offbeat | Twins born on ‘Star Wars’ Day named after movie characters
The force is with them. A Utah couple became parents of a boy and a girl on “Star Wars” day, Friday, May 4. The day is ... -
Offbeat | He did it again! Man robs same bank day after release from prison
Authorities say a man sent to state prison for bank robbery has robbed the same Cleveland bank branch the day after his release. Federal prosecutors in ... -
Offbeat | German cops nab pair with 130 pounds of stolen chocolate
Two people are under investigation in Germany after being caught in possession of some 60 kilograms (130 pounds) of stolen chocolate. Braunschweig police said yesterday a ... -
Offbeat | Police, fed up with lingering cold weather, ‘arrests’ winter
An upstate New York police department fed up with lingering cold weather has placed winter under arrest. The Post-Standard reports the Depew Police Department wrote Friday ... -
Offbeat | Carnival Cruise trades cruise for teen’s Snapchat handle
Carnival Cruise rolled into a small Virginia town this week on the hunt for a local teen and his coveted Snapchat handle @CarnivalCruise. The company surprised ... -
Offbeat | Selena Gomez responds after bikini pics show scar
Selena Gomez took to Instagram after bikini photos of her in Australia showing a scar drew social media comments that she looked “thick.” The singer wrote ... -
Offbeat | Dead man walking: Court rejects Romanian’s claim he’s alive
Constantin Reliu learned in January that he was dead. After more than 20 years of working as a cook in Turkey, the 63-year-old returned home to ... -
Offbeat | San Francisco to remove statue some call racist
San Francisco arts commissioners have voted to remove a statue that shows a Native American man at the feet of a conquering Spanish cowboy and Catholic ... -
Offbeat | Sumatran tiger fatally attacks man in western Indonesia
A rare Sumatran tiger fatally attacked a man in the latest human-tiger conflict in a western Indonesian region plagued by widespread deforestation, officials said Sunday. The ... -
Offbeat | Jury duty anyone? North Carolina county finds few takers
The judges, deputies and clerks showed up for court, but one key element was missing: No one had invited any jurors. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that ... -
Offbeat | 100 pizzas and counting: German police probe pizza stalker
German police are investigating a case of severe pizza stalking in the western town of Dortmund. Police are looking for someone who’s bombarded a lawyer by ... -
Offbeat | UK citizens ask Dutch court to protect post-Brexit EU rights
A group of British citizens who live in the Netherlands went to a Dutch court this week in a bid to retain their EU citizenship rights ... -
Offbeat | Thousands of passengers affected by Niki airline’s grounding
Thousands of European travelers could be left stranded by the bankruptcy of Austrian budget carrier Niki. The airline ceased flight operations yesterday. Hopes for a swift ... -
Offbeat | Getaway car ran out of gas after robbery, 2 arrested
Police say a getaway car ran out of gas after an armed robbery near Atlanta, leading to the speedy arrest of two suspects. Gwinnett County police ... -
Offbeat | Ex-DJ says USD1 payment to Taylor Swift sent by mail last week
A former radio DJ who was ordered to pay a symbolic USD1 to Taylor Swift for groping her at a photo op says he mailed her ... -
Offbeat | ‘Big as my head’: Hawaii woman seeks record for huge avocado
A Hawaii woman is waiting to hear back from Guinness World Records to find out if the massive avocado she snagged is the world’s largest. Pamela ... -
Offbeat | Former President Barack Obama: ‘Think before you tweet’
When former President Barack Obama spoke to a leadership forum in India’s capital last week, he never once used the words “Donald Trump” and was careful ... -
Offbeat | Military dog wins British prize for valor under fire
A British military dog that saved the lives of troops in Afghanistan in 2012 was decorated Friday for bravery. Mali, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois, won the ... -
Offbeat | Oh, man! Town drops ‘men’ from name of its governing board
A Massachusetts town has removed the word “men” from the name of its governing body. Brookline approved changing the Board of Selectmen to the Select Board ... -
Offbeat | Driver uses cardboard Trump head in carpool lane
A cardboard cutout of a head in a passenger seat definitely caught the attention of a Washington State Patrol trooper yesterday. That’s because it wasn’t just ... -
Offbeat | Drone to the face doesn’t stop Bone Thugs-n-Harmony show
The hip-hop rhythms of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are too fierce to be stopped. Even by a drone to the face. The group was performing at the High ... -
Offbeat | Man who lost phone fleeing cops posts online: Don’t call me
Authorities say a Pennsylvania drug suspect who dropped his cellphone while running away from police took to Facebook to warn his friends not to call that ... -
Offbeat | Danish Elvis fan loses ‘Graceland’ trademark dispute
A court in Denmark has ordered the owner of a museum modeled after Elvis Presley’s Graceland Mansion to pay 500,000 kroner (USD75,000) in damages to a ... -
Offbeat | Philadelphia transit agency to test urine-repelling paint
The city’s main transit agency plans to try urine-repelling paint to combat smells and complaints about cleanliness. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will run a trial ... -
Offbeat | NY GOP lawmaker wins primary days after killing himself
Days after killing himself, a vocal advocate for gun rights and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has won a New York primary election. Assemblyman Bill Nojay ... -
Offbeat | Facebook allows postings of ‘napalm girl’ photo after debate
Facebook on Friday reversed its decision to remove postings of an iconic 1972 image of a naked, screaming girl running from a napalm attack in Vietnam, ... -
Offbeat | Indonesia condemns palm oil firm’s hostage-taking over fires
Indonesia’s minister of environment and forestry has condemned attempts by a palm oil company to stop an investigation into forest fires by taking ministry investigators hostage. ... -
Offbeat | Vladimir Putin – not THAT Putin – nabbed in Florida
Vladimir Putin has been arrested at a Florida supermarket. No, not THAT Vladimir Putin. Police in West Palm Beach say a 48-year-old man who shares the ... -
Offbeat | Boy, 5, uses allowance to buy lunch for police
A 5-year-old boy in New Jersey has picked up the lunch tab for his police department. William Evertz Jr. saved up his allowance for seven months ... -
Offbeat | US Marine Corps horse honored for Korean War valor
A U.S. Marine Corps horse who served during some of the bloodiest fighting of the Korean War has been posthumously decorated for bravery. Sgt. Reckless was ... -
Offbeat | Monk gets prison for stealing from temple to gamble
A Buddhist monk was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than USD260,000 from the Louisiana temple he led and ... -
Offbeat | Miniature wall appears around Trump’s Hollywood star
On the day Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a miniature wall appeared around the former reality TV host’s star on the Hollywood Walk ... -
Offbeat | Haitians trek to sacred waterfalls in Voodoo festival
Some carrying candles or calabash bowls with offerings of goat meat, thousands of Haitians made a Saturday pilgrimage to bathe in sacred waterfalls and pray for ... -
Offbeat | Escaped inmate turns himself in at Arkansas bar, has a beer
An inmate who escaped a northwestern Arkansas jail, showed up at a nearby bar a week later, ordered a beer and declared he was turning himself ...
