Hold the saliva: Wash. deputy sues Burger King, francher operator over Whopper with spit

Wash. deputy sues over Whopper with spit

PORTLAND, Ore. — A sheriff’s deputy in Washington state is suing Burger King and a franchise operator over a Whopper he says a worker spit on.

Texas jails man who admitted to stuffing lead weight into bass during fishing tournament

No fish story: Man jailed for weighting fish

Tater not: Alabama deputies root out cocaine disguised as foil-wrapped baked potato

Tater not: Deputies find cocaine posing as spud

Voters in small Tennessee town elect a dead man as mayor even though he had died weeks earlier

Dead man wins mayor’s race in small Tennessee town

Snake-hittin’: SC man arrested after police say he hit motel guest in face with 4-foot python

Police: SC motel guest uses snake to hit man

Pa. judge tosses lawsuit by girl claiming she was burned by convenience store’s price scanner

Pa. judge tosses burned-by-price-scanner suit

Snake-hittin’: SC man arrested after police say he hit motel guest with 4-foot python

Police: Motel guest hits man in head with snake

Wis. company attempts to keep men from being the ‘butt’ of fashion jokes with longer T-shirts

Wis. company’s longer T-shirts keep assets covered

New Mexico police say man arrested after setting his mobile home ablaze with pot bong

Police: Man sets home ablaze with pot bong

Get off your high horse! Wisonsin farmer has world’s tallest horse

Wis. farmer has world’s tallest horse

POYNETTE, Wis. — When people tell Jerry Gilbert to get off his high horse, they will mean it — literally. His 9-year-old Belgian gelding named Big Jake is the Guinness World Record-holder for world’s tallest living horse at 20 hands, 2.75 inches or one quarter inch short of 6-foot-11. That’s 2.75 inches taller than the previous record-holder, a Clydesdale from Texas named Remington.

Police: Suspect who escaped from NJ police car tried to gnaw off fingerprints

Police: NJ suspect tried to gnaw off fingertips

Stimulus money for facial hair? Mustache advocacy group makes its case

Mustache advocacy group seeks tax break

ST. LOUIS — It’s time that mustached Americans got in on the stimulus money. At least that’s the proposal being pushed by tax policy professor John Yeutter and the St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute. The tongue-in-cheek group dubs itself “the world’s only facial hair advocacy and research organization.”

Drone Kills six millitants in North Waziristan

ISLAMABAD: Six militants have reportedly been killed, while a dozen sustained injuries as a result of a pilotless drone attack in North Waziristan on Wednesday, credible sources said.