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 any old cardboard head, but

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 Life Music Festival in Victorville

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 phone number. Lackawanna County detectives

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 U.S. company that owns

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 this fall of a product

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 was facing a fraud trial

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, after a Norwegian revolt

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. A team of seven officials

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 name of the Russian president

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 and went to a Subway

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 awarded the Dickin Medal during

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 gambling most of the

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 of Fame. Tourists stopped Tuesday

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 everything from a good

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 in. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports

Offbeat | Comedian posts fake animal facts around Los Angeles Zoo

Visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo may have been greeted by some misinformation recently, courtesy of a comedian who posted fake facts about animals around the zoo. Jeff Wysaski puts up

Offbeat | The Swiss army battles its latest foe: bedbugs in dorms

The Swiss army is working hard to fend off its latest foe: bedbugs. The defense department said this week that a parents’ day event planned for July 16 is being cancelled

Offbeat | Behind famed hot dog contest, a whopper of a legend

Nathan’s Famous may be in the hot dog business, but for decades they’ve been peddling a whopper. Showmen behind Nathan’s annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest have long claimed

Offbeat | German writes own obit, bans relatives from funeral

A German man has taken his grudges to the grave, telling relatives in a posthumous newspaper notice that some of them aren’t welcome at his funeral. News agency dpa reported Friday

Offbeat | US: Man saved from blaze by son’s cackling chickens

A Pennsylvania fire chief says some cackling chickens turned out to be cock-a-doodle-do-gooders. Creekside Fire Chief Pete Yacovone says David Wells escaped from his burning Indiana County home at around 3:30

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