Prison inmates who make decals for the Vermont State Police slipped a pig into the official seal, and up to 30 patrol cars wound up sporting the subliminal epithet, the Burlington Free Press tells us. The police emblem features a cow, an evergreen tree and snowy mountains (along with three unidentifiable creatures). Back in 2008, an inmate [...]

A young couple in Saanich, B.C. had a rude awakening when a luxury car slammed into their bedroom at around 2 a.m. on Thursday. The couple was asleep in their basement suite on Carey Road when a man drove his red Jaguar through an intersection, clipped a fence and a parked car, and then smashed [...]

It sounds like a narrative right out of the comic books, but police said the Catwoman fought back against a greedy pirate stirring up some trouble. The melee on LA’s famed Hollywood Boulevard ended with Capt Jack Sparrow writhing in agony after the sultry villain pepper-sprayed him. Officers responded to the Kodak Theatre last night [...]

A 13-year-old Farmington, Michigan boy isn’t giving up his fight with city hall. David Ratze went before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday night in an effort to save his tree house.  “My swim team and I spent nine weeks working on my tree house,” Ratze said Wednesday night. “We did not have many [...]

A motorcyclist whose speeds reached 188 mph during a chase by troopers may spend two years in prison after he is sentenced March 8. James Foldenauer of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was found guilty Wednesday of traveling at excessive speed and eluding a police officer as he drove Aug. 5, 2009, on Interstate 29 near Missouri Valley, [...]

North Carolina deputies say they used a Taser on a woman in front of her 3-year-old daughter after she cut the McDonalds drive-thru line and refused to move when she was denied service. Employees at the McDonalds in Hope Mills, N.C., refused to serve Evangeline Lucca and told her to go to the back of [...]

A convicted felon suspected of befriending student athletes and offering money for piggyback rides has been arrested on unrelated drug charges.   Tualatin Police said they arrested Sherwin Shayegan on Monday on a drug-related warrant issued out of Mt. Vernon, Wash. An officer had seen Shayegan at a school event in recent days and told [...]