Odds and Sods
Next time you and your pals hop in a hot-tub time machine, you might not want to set it for the 1st century A.D. in Palestine.
Fake cop arrested after pulling over a real one
An Arizona man accused admonishing motorists of traffic laws while posing as a police officer apparently picked the wrong driver to pull over.
In Cop News
Hundreds of cops swarm minority neighborhoods as nutball Arizona sheriff conducts 14th obviously unconstitutional "crime and immigration sweep" since 2008
Two Louisiana cops disciplined after out-of-state cops complain of widespread illegal arrests and excessive force
North Carolina cops' personnel files are confidential, public doesn't get to know which cops have violent crimes on their records
Caviar fish are most endangered group of animals
16 of the 25 sturgeon species are now critically endangered, including the much-prized Beluga sturgeon
Police in Hemet, California in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.
Swiss Gruyere named world's best cheese
The Europeans are still the big cheeses.Swiss and Austrian cheesemakers took top honors Thursday at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, beating out some 2,300 entries from 20 countries ranging from Argentina to Switzerland.
Cheesemaker Cedric Fragniere took top honors with a Gruyere that judges lauded for its creamy texture and light hint of herbs.
"It's very smooth, it's aromatic and it has a very clean cheese flavor," said Bill Schlinsog, one of 30 judges. "It has a burst of flavor and then it settles down very nicely in the mouth."
The runner-up also was Swiss. Andeer Sennerei of Andeer, Switzerland, took second place with a smear-ripened hard cheese called an Andeerer Traum.
Third place went to Alois Pesendorfer of Gmunden, Austria, whose Gmundner Berg Premium won in the category of open class semisoft cheese.
To the cheesemakers who participate, this contest - touted as the largest international cheese and butter competition in the world - is serious business.
After Swiss cheesemaker Christian Wuethrich won in 2006 with an Emmentaler, he sold out his remaining stock of the Swiss cheese so fast he had to buy some back from his exporter to supply the local customers who make up most of his business.
"We faced a shortage because we were not prepared for this," he said.
Still, Wuethrich raised the price of his Emmentaler only nominally, from $8 per pound to $9, because he said the local market wouldn't support a larger increase.
Cheesemaker Cedric Fragniere took top honors with a Gruyere that judges lauded for its creamy texture and light hint of herbs.
"It's very smooth, it's aromatic and it has a very clean cheese flavor," said Bill Schlinsog, one of 30 judges. "It has a burst of flavor and then it settles down very nicely in the mouth."
The runner-up also was Swiss. Andeer Sennerei of Andeer, Switzerland, took second place with a smear-ripened hard cheese called an Andeerer Traum.
Third place went to Alois Pesendorfer of Gmunden, Austria, whose Gmundner Berg Premium won in the category of open class semisoft cheese.
To the cheesemakers who participate, this contest - touted as the largest international cheese and butter competition in the world - is serious business.
After Swiss cheesemaker Christian Wuethrich won in 2006 with an Emmentaler, he sold out his remaining stock of the Swiss cheese so fast he had to buy some back from his exporter to supply the local customers who make up most of his business.
"We faced a shortage because we were not prepared for this," he said.
Still, Wuethrich raised the price of his Emmentaler only nominally, from $8 per pound to $9, because he said the local market wouldn't support a larger increase.
'Being dead' proves costly for woman
Documents declaring she's deceased have made life miserable for Doris Temple.
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When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses.
A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down.
A man from Maine who struck a match on a U.S. Airways flight to Boston's Logan International Airport is facing some heat - but not over matches.
Detectives searching for man who put son up for sale on Craigslist
Spokane County Sheriff's detectives are trying to track down a Spokane father who allegedly offered to sell his son on Craigslist for $5,000.
Dying woman robbed of jewelry brought to hospital for safe keeping
A dying Canadian woman, who brought her jewelry to the hospital to keep it from being stolen at home, was robbed of her possessions moments before she passed away.
Surreal Warren Buffett video stirs up buzz
The billionaire sheds his corporate image and goes full "Axl Rose" in a surprise cameo.
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