http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_322225451.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:11:00 EST http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_322225451.html Today's Total: $515.00
Total to Date: $7,143.40
Happy Holidays to all our Friends and Family, from Dexter and Marge Greer$50
Deutche Elf, from Albert Hertrich$10
Happy Holidays, from Gloria Viola$10]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295155005.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:50:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295155005.html Wilfred Rodriguez heard rattling while he was driving Monday in the Bronx. After he parked, he spotted a bushy tail and a paw sticking out of the SUV's front end.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154927.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:49:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154927.html Iles Funeral Home in Des Moines is going high-tech with its funeral announcements, putting them on electronic billboards around the city.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154850.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154850.html WOOD-TV reports that a 40-year-old Comstock Park resident later called 911 and confessed.
According to the Kent County sheriff's department, the man simply said: "I'm the one that robbed the bank, and I wanted to turn myself in."]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154748.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:47:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154748.html Angela Montez says a warmness came over her Monday as she talked with the man even though she was scared that she'd never see her children again.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154712.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:46:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_295154712.html Twenty-five-year-old Eriberto Gonzales was convicted earlier this month of murder and sentenced Wednesday for the March 2007 ambush killing of 25-year-old Ezequiel Reyes.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287134135.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:41:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287134135.html Police in Slidell, a small town just east of New Orleans, are asking parents to call authorities if their children came home smelling like pickles or jalapenos over the weekend, or if they hear about students selling lots of candy.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287132029.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:20:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287132029.html But the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked another fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel: He died in November at age 83.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287131941.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:19:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_287131941.html Orchard Park police say an Ontario man called the organization that owns the carving Tuesday. He said he and some friends rescued it after seeing people trying to burn it.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286134002.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:40:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286134002.html Brandon Hiles says he encountered the buck when the ball rolled into woods while he was playing with friends Saturday in Wintersville, about 125 miles east of Columbus. The boy says the buck ran at him and flipped him with its antlers, leaving bruises and a gash.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133922.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:39:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133922.html Ashaari Idris, a government official in northern Terengganu state, says troubled couples will be allowed to spend two nights at the state's scenic islands or beach resorts to help them rekindle their romance under a "Second Honeymoon" program.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133630.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:36:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133630.html The project's creator, Therese Forton-Barnes, says the 8 1/2-foot statue carved from a fallen pine tree weighs more than 1,000 pounds and it took a crane to get it set up for Sunday's event. She says it would have taken several strong people with a flatbed truck to remove it. It's unclear when it disappeared.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133510.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133510.html The state Department of Labor and Employment has ordered the wage to drop to $7.24 from $7.28, effective Jan. 1. But that's lower than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, so minimum wage workers would lose only 3 cents an hour.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133350.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133350.html The News & Record of Greensboro reported Saturday that Jesse Ray Hardy Jr. of Greenville was arrested Monday, then taken to jail 160 miles away to face charges of resisting an officer, breaking and entering and failing to yield to a pedestrian.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133314.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133314.html Dave and Lacey Castro of Lewiston came in first among 41 teams to win Saturday's competition at Sunday River ski resort in Newry. They covered the 278-yard course in 54.45 seconds.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133218.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:32:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_286133218.html Lawrence Police Sgt. Susan Hadl says the ambulance crew parked it early Sunday while responding to a medical emergency in an area filled with bars and specialty shops.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173637.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:36:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173637.html Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173511.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173511.html http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173555.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173555.html Ryan Adams was released on $500 bail after pleading not guilty in Framingham District Court on Tuesday to charges including larceny of property worth more than $250.]]> http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173437.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:00 EDT http://www.salemnews.com/offbeat/etpoffbeat_story_281173437.html It happened in Lanham, where apartment resident Robert Scriber's leg was hurt by flying debris. He says the minivan landed on top of a bed where he'd been lying minutes before.]]>