A Russian man awaiting trial on money-laundering charges said he has hired a pilot to fly a banner along the New York skyline seeking help from the Virgin Mary.Vadim Vasilenko, whose U.S. court date has not been set, has already sent up banners seeking help from both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported Tuesday.Vasilenko said he hired a light aircraft to fly a banner reading “Romney, help!” over Manhattan and Brigh

Seven adopted children were beaten and abused in a home that doubled as a strip club complete with a dancing pole and drugs, police in California say.Riverside County deputies said they made the discovery at a home in Perris while searching the home during an investigation of a homicide that occurred at there in July, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.Court documents said the first floor of the home had been converted to a strip club, where officers found a dancing pole platform and a priva

A Texas man living in a cave dismissed allegations he has been seen wandering the area in the nude.The man, who declined to give his name, was the subject of complaints from a group of hikers who said they found the man‘s furnished cave Sunday in El Paso’s McKelligon Canyon and were chased away from the area by the man, who they said was nude, KVIA-TV, El Paso, reported Tuesday.Residents of a nearby apartment complex said the man is often seen wandering the area nude and can sometimes be found b

The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services is investigating the family of a 2-year-old who wandered into a supermarket on his own late at night. Employees at the A&P in Hoboken found the toddler at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Jersey Journal reported. They called police who located the child's family at their home about a block away. Police Sgt. Sam Williams said the toddler apparentl

A 77-year-old Chicago man is facing charges for allegedly stealing an ambulance from a hospital he had just left, police say.John Neal is accused of walking out of MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn Tuesday night, hopping in an apparently idling ambulance and driving off. He had gone about 10 miles and was 2 miles from his home when officers caught up with him. They said Neal told them he took the emergency vehicle because, “I needed a ride. I needed to get home,” the Chicago Tribune reported.It wasn‘t

Beekeepers in northern France said a nearby M&M‘s factory may be to blame for their bees producing blue and green honey.Alain Frieh, president of the Union of Beekeepers of Ribeauville, said beekeepers were baffled when their honey came out in shades of blue and green, Euronews reported Friday.“We looked at the hives found the phenomenon was growing, everything pointed to something in the environment,” Frieh said.The union soon discovered bees had been swarming at a nearby Mars plant, where they

A Nebraska man accused of pushing his wife onto a bed and rubbing a sandwich in her face has been sentenced to five days in jail.Larry Spurling, 50, of Melbeta pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of disturbing the peace stemming from the Sunday incident and was sentenced to five days in jail, KETV, Omaha, reported Thursday.Spurling‘s wife, whose name was not reported, told police her husband was angry at her for “making him live in the county” and he was upset about “being bored since there is