Offbeat News

JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas boy dressed up as his school’s security officer on the day students were told to dress as their favorite person. Officer Jeffery Cross told KTHV-TV in Little Rock that he was honored that kindergartner Easton Blocker dressed up like him on Wednesday.

CUYAMUNGUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico woman is facing a larceny charge after authorities say she stole a neighbor’s anatomical skeleton model that allegedly was making an offensive gesture toward her. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports court documents filed Monday show that Diana Hogrebe was

ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman celebrated her 100th birthday this week by checking off a significant item on her bucket list: she went to jail. News outlets report that deputies from the Person County Sheriff’s Office went to an assisted living center and served Ruth Bryant

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An accent mark on the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the misplaced accent mark at the top of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico’s website was recently spotted by a

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