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Updated: February 10, 2012 4:37:51 AM PST
NEW YORK—It may not smell like a rose but a New York City sewage plant is offering tours for lovers on Valentine's Day.   Full Story
 
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MONTPELIER, Vt.—Remember the pig hidden within the decal on the doors of some Vermont State Police cruisers?   Full Story
 
LOS ANGELES—A suspect in an auto theft was arrested Thursday after a bizarre five-hour standoff on the rooftops of a Westwood neighborhood.   Full Story
 
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.—A California woman has her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.   Full Story
 
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KARACHI, Pakistan—Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman.   Full Story
 
LOS ANGELES—The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven.   Full Story
 
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges.   Full Story
 
RENTON, Wash.—The Washington State Patrol says an irate driver apparently whacked a man in the shoulder with a small sledge hammer in a road rage dispute.   Full Story
 
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000.   Full Story
 
BUTTE, Mont.—A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage.   Full Story
 
MODESTO, Calif.—Authorities say a helicopter encountered mechanical problems before making an emergency landing at an elementary school playground in a Modesto, Calif.   Full Story
 
CHICAGO—A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class.   Full Story
 
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PHILADELPHIA—Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.   Full Story
 
STOCKHOLM—Champis the bunny doesn't only hop—he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.   Full Story
 
ALEPPO, Pa.—A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to. More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he's being denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.   Full Story
 
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio—A woman who called the wrong number when she suffered a stroke still found help a couple of time zones away.   Full Story
 
HELENA, Mont.—A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.   Full Story
 
BUTTE, Mont.—A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.   Full Story
 
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MONTPELIER, Vt.—A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.   Full Story
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system.   Full Story
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.   Full Story
 
WAYNESBURG, Pa.—A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.   Full Story
 
LOS ANGELES—A large seabird found in the back of a pickup truck in Los Angeles has been released to begin its long flight home across the Pacific.   Full Story
 
HELENA, Montana—A mountaintop Jesus statue can stay at a ski resort in the western U.S. state of Montana—for now.   Full Story
 
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said.   Full Story
 
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.   Full Story
 
LONDON—The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London.   Full Story
 
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—A Swiss artist plans to bury an intact Boeing 727 jetliner in California's Mojave Desert and build a tourist tunnel to give visitors a chance to view the underground project.   Full Story
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses.   Full Story
 
POWELL, Wyo.—A 19-year-old college student accused of swiping a doughnut in Wyoming is going to be paying a pretty penny for that pastry.   Full Story