An Ohio strip club said it raised nearly $1,000 during a "Lap dances for Haiti " charity event.
Bosses at Marilyn's on Monroe, which does not actually allow lap dances, said all the money from the club's $10 cover charge Sunday to Hope, or ISOH/IMPACT, a Waterville-based charity participating in Haitian earthquake relief efforts, the Toledo Blade reported Monday.
General Manager Kenny Soprano said local business wanted to give back to the community ... (Continue story)
A Kentucky KFC is offing free chicken for the return of a $1,200 bronze bust of KFC founder Colonel Sanders stolen from in front of the fast-food eatery.
Rhonda Hall, manager of the KFC in Berea, said authorities told them four young men were spotted fleeing the scene in a silver passenger car, WLKY-TV, Louisville, Ky., reported Monday.
"It's like, this big, his whole head. It's really detailed, all the features and everything. Some employees were in the dining room when four young guys came in," Hall said ... (Continue story)
A Florida graduate who lost his 1989 class ring ring when it fell from a cruise ship 21 years ago said an Ohio woman called to say she found the ring.
Tom Whitney of Orlando, who he accidentally dropped the 1989 West Orange High ring from a Port Canaveral-based cruise ship the year of his graduation said he received an e-mail last Monday from a woman who said she believed the ring had been found, The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Monday.
"It was just this Monday, and I got a message from a woman who said she has my ring," Whitney said ... (Continue story)
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A tourist who got lost on a New Zealand mountain was rescued after sending text messages to his family in Greece, newspapers and websites reported on Monday.
Marios Symeonidis was visiting Mount Ruapehu, home to New Zealand's largest skiing and snowboarding area, this weekend with a friend, but then lost his companion while taking photographs, website www.stuff.co.nz reported.
He was not equipped for an overnight stay and was only wearing light clothing ... (Continue story)
UK - It was not a sinking feeling exactly. But Stagecoach's hopes that its trials of a new amphibious bus would go off without a hitch were dampened on Monday when the vehicle had to be dry-docked for repairs.
By Alistair Osborne, Business Editor (Transport)
The "amfibus", seen here testing the water between Renfrew and Yoker on the River Clyde, developed a minor technical glitch after its second crossing -- forcing the trial to be suspended while the vehicle was repaired ... (Continue story)
An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak -- using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter.
The bird was found in December with severe damage to its beak, apparently from fishing line that wrapped around it and started cutting into it.
Cindy Palmatier at the Bird Treatment and Learning Center says staff there decided to turn to dentist Kirk Johnson, who thought of patching up the beak with the same material used to make temporary crowns for people ... (Continue story)
Police say a man suspected of stealing a bottle of Schnapps from a Wyoming grocery store didn't have the best escape route planned.
Riverton police say the 26-year-old ran out of the store after grabbing the bottle of booze and a package of cough drops Wednesday and hid in a nearby building, which happened to be the police station.
Police say the man then ran out of the police station, but not before a dispatcher had spied him on the station's surveillance camera and alerted officers ... (Continue story)
Jimmy Craig of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, received a letter banning him from his local Tim Hortons and one in neighboring St. Stephen for continually complaining about his decaffeinated coffee's burnt taste, Canoe News reports.
Hortons, the Canadian equivalent to Starbucks, sent Craig the letter after he had taken his complaint to the store manager, owner and corporate office.
Hortons declined to comment, but store owner, Edwin Dow said Craig was upsetting his employees and that staffers went out of their way to satisfy him, even brewing fresh pots upon request.
Craig said after drinking the coffee he "almost got sick in the sink," but is contacting a lawyer to have the ban overturned.
Whilst many complain about strict company policies enforced by Catbert types bosses, none sounded as strange as this recent ruling by a Chinese company. Based in Chongqing, this workplace has enforced an unusual divorce regulation which asks the couple to compensate their colleagues.
Thus, any of the employees planning to tie the knot must agree to this company policy that paves way for later repayment.
According to this premarital agreement, the divorced couple are obliged to pay back any cash gifts handed in their work colleagues ... (Continue story)
