NEW MARKET, Md. (AP) - It's green -- but it's not money and it won't buy gas. Deputies in Frederick County, Md., charge James T. Hart tried to pay for fuel for his motorcycle with pot. A gas station clerk called the cops. Deputies report a search of Hart and his bike also turned up suspected cocaine and Oxycodone. Hart now faces a number of charges, including drug possession.
BO SCOOP
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is the most powerful man in the world
-- so what does that make his dog, Bo? Obama reveals he has the nighttime
dog-walking duties -- and that includes picking up Bo's you-know-what. The
president tells a TV interviewer his walks with Bo around the White House are a
highlight of his day. But the First Dog can be a naughty puppy. Michelle Obama
says Bo has chewed up at least one magazine and gone after the president's gym
shoes. Bo moved into the White House nearly five months ago, fulfilling a
campaign promise the president made to his two young daughters, Malia and Sasha.
PATIENT ATM BURGLAR
VALENCIA, Pa. (AP) - Cash machines are sure built to take it -- as a suspected
thief has learned. Pennsylvania troopers say they're looking for a man who
attacked an ATM with a crow bar and power saw. But the man wasn't able to get
anything out of the cash machine -- except for maybe a headache. Troopers say
the man clobbered the ATM for 17 minutes at a bank in western P-A, before dawn
earlier this month. State police are releasing surveillance video of the cash
machine abuse, in hopes someone will be able to I-D the suspect.
BEER WADDLE
ZACHARY, La. (AP) - Most people would be walking awfully funny after a case of
beer. But a woman in Louisiana isn't charged with drinking the beer, she's
accused of stealing the brewski. Police in Zachary say security video shows Lisa
Newsome pulling her up housedress, putting a case between her thighs and
waddling out of a store. The case of brew weighed 20 pounds. Capt. David McDavid
says when Newsome was busted this week she offered to demonstrate how she did
the beer waddle. But McDavid says he replied, no thanks, he's not into that.
Newsome was booked onto the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a theft charge.
SEMI BURGLARY
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) - Police in Utah are looking for a pair of would-be
crooks armed with -- a semi-truck. West Valley City officers report two men
tried to smash their way into a pawnshop with a stolen tractor-trailer. Police
Capt. Tom McLachlan says the men rammed the semi through the first set of doors
but couldn't get through a second set. McLachlan says the two men ran, leaving
the semi behind. Police are reviewing security video to try to identify the
suspects.
GIANT WATERMELON
RUTHSBURG, Md. (AP) - Mechelle Suitt has a whale of melon. The watermelon the
Maryland woman grew weighed in at 138 pounds. Suitt says a cashier told her the
seeds she was buying were unusual. A few months later she found out why. The
giant melon was displayed for a while at a produce stand near Suitt's home. Over
the weekend, the monster melon was carved up. Suitt says she's getting all sorts
of requests for seeds. But she saved them for neighbors, family and her pastor.
