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Woman seeks new route after 2 intersection wrecks

2 hours, 26 minutes ago

POCATELLO, Idaho - An intersection in southeastern Idaho has proven unlucky for a woman who's been in two car accidents at the same crossroads since August. Kris Payne was driving at the intersection of Pole Line and Eldredge roads on Thursday when another driver ran a red light and collided into her Chevy Blazer.

  • Extremely drunk R.I. driver pleads no contest 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving.

  • 'Bra Bandit' strikes again in southwest Florida 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries in the area.

  • 86 cats rescued from 2-bedroom condo in Colorado 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - A Glenwood Springs animal shelter was trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium. The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the cats on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to accommodate the animals at area shelters and homes.

  • Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin Sat Oct 4, 8:30 PM ET

    ELK GROVE, Calif. - That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.

  • In this undated image released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT student Oliver Smoot is shown lying on the ground of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Cambridge, Mass. Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering Smoot measured 5-foot-7 inches, they marked the bridge every five feet and seven inches, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each new measurement. They soon determined the bridge was 364.4 'Smoots' long. Smoot returned Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, to be honored at MIT, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented the unique measurement 50 years ago. (AP Photo/MIT)
    'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT Sun Oct 5, 10:50 AM ET

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.

  • Sue Nace is photographed at her home in Red Lion, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. What to wear on Election Day could become a serious question for Pennsylvania voters as a state court considers whether to ban campaign buttons, T-shirts and other apparel from polling places. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    GOP, Democrats battle in Pa. over voter dress code Sat Oct 4, 10:01 AM ET

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

  • Chinese winner Yakefujang Maimitili walks on a high wire during the World High Wire Championships in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. Twenty seven high-wire walkers from 14 countries challenged on the tightrope, a wire rope of 30 millimeters in diameter stretching 1,000 meters across the Han River in Seoul. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
    Chinese wins tightrope contest across Seoul river Sat Oct 4, 9:33 AM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday.

  • This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth. (AP Photo/Lamar University, Brian Sattler)
    Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard Sat Oct 4, 12:27 AM ET

    CAPLEN, Texas - A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.

  • 9 from Roswell, NM, claim $200M Powerball jackpot Fri Oct 3, 11:56 PM ET

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks.

  • Naked lunch promo dropped to placate town board Fri Oct 3, 4:51 PM ET

    GREENVILLE, Maine - There's no such thing as a free lunch anymore for Black Frog Restaurant patrons nervy enough to run down a dock and plunge naked into Moosehead Lake.

  • Two three-month-old male baby lesser pandas play at Chiba Zoological Park near Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. The lesser pandas, also known as red pandas, debuted in the public Saturday. Their names will be chosen from eight names by park visitors. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
    Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health Fri Oct 3, 6:31 AM ET

    BEIJING - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas.

  • Good grief! Gigantic gourd goes missing in Mich. Fri Oct 3, 5:05 AM ET

    GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A massive pumpkin has gone missing from a front yard of a home in suburban Flint, Mich. — and its owner suspects some mighty strong thieves.

  • What a show: Cigarette sets off fireworks in car Thu Oct 2, 9:09 PM ET

    CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - A Rhode Island man faces charges after the cigarette he was smoking inside a car apparently ignited fireworks.