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PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) – A 24-year-old man has drawn a 30-day jail term for posting on social media a video of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson also was sentenced

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service worker in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in prison for selling marijuana along his mail route. U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart on Monday said the worker pleaded guilty to selling marijuana while working as a letter carrier in

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman is suing a family entertainment center saying her hair got caught in a ticket counting machine in Portland, Oregon, for 20 minutes. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Ashreana Scott is suing CEC Entertainment, also known as Chuck E. Cheese family fun center, for

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio emergency department physician has joined the Army at the age of 53. The Middletown Journal-News reports that Dr. Mark Gebhart has been a physician for 21 years and hopes that his experience will help him care for wounded soldiers in the field. Gebhart

CHARLEVOIX, Mich. (AP) — A fish wholesaler in northern Michigan has been given a significant break after federal officials said they couldn’t arrange his unusual jail sentence. John Cross III of Charlevoix will serve four months of home detention without an electronic tether. He can leave

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An animal control company in Virginia said it’s removed an 8-foot-long beehive from an apartment. Virginia Wildlife Management and Control said in a statement that they removed the hive from the ceiling of a living room in Richmond last week. The company said the hive

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University fraternity brother has been charged with breaking into the college’s under-construction football stadium and riding a four-wheeler around inside. University police said Thursday that 19-year-old Clayton Fleetwood entered Tiger stadium

RENO, Nev. (AP) — What if they gave an election — and nobody showed up? It’s more than just a hypothetical question for Democrats who counted votes in last week’s presidential caucus. Not only did no one cast a ballot during early voting in precinct #7321 — no one showed up for the

LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — Ok, so maybe it isn’t the World Cup, or even the World Series. But there is a result in an international competition pitting contestants in Kansas against their British counterparts. And in yesterday’s annual pancake race between Liberal, Kansas and Onley, England —