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An Ohio man has been charged with attempted murder after authorities said he put an infant and a toddler in a trash bin.
Motorists in Mendota Heights might have seen a group of residents picking up trash while packing heat this weekend. About a dozen people spent nearly three hours picking up litter Sunday along a 2-mile stretch of highway. All legally carried guns on their hips. It was the inaugural trash cleanup event for the group that calls itself the Minnesota Carry Permit Holders.
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
Where does that coffee cup, disposable razor or unwanted television end up once it's tossed to the curb?
Animal control officials are trying to find out how two dead 4-foot-long leopard sharks ended up in a trash can in Norwalk, a Los Angeles suburb.
Police in Dayton, Ohio say a 2-year-old girl and 8-month-old boy have been found crying inside a large trash bin, about 13 hours after their mother reported them missing. She told police her boyfriend fled with them after a fight.
Is it any surprise that a city known for its love of cheesesteaks, soft pretzels and cannolis would embrace a solar-powered trash compactor called a BigBelly?
One man's trash is definitely another man's treasure. A Queens man hired to remove material from a deceased artist's estate has found artifacts worth thousands of dollars in a discarded barrel.
A father and son are facing almost $20,000 in fees and fines after New York authorities said they removed about 42 tons of trash from their property. Brookhaven Town officials said they took away tires, car parts, hoses and other trash — about 85,000 pounds in all — piled up on a residential lot in Mastic Beach on eastern Long Island.
Sorting glass and other recyclables out of household trash will no longer be enough in San Francisco. Anything that can be composted also has to be separated.
Trash collectors in San Francisco will soon be doing more than just gathering garbage: They'll be keeping an eye out for people who toss food scraps out with their rubbish.
About 700 yards from the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station.
Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital's trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.
The economic downturn has even reached the trash on the curb, and that's hurting some sanitation workers.
British police say a trash collector can hold on to the mound of mutilated cash he found stuffed into a wastebasket in the English town of Lincoln earlier this year.
Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country, stoking fears they could get lost or, worse, stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombs.
A Connecticut trash hauler was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Wednesday for a price-fixing conspiracy that authorities say was supported by mob muscle, violence and extortion.
Without ever lifting a shovel, an archaeologist could dig through Dave Chameides' house and get a pretty good picture of how he has lived for the past eight months.
A West Virginia mother is seeking a recall of a popular walkie-talkie after her 3-year-old's toy apparently intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about drugs and strip clubs.
Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash.
With sugar cane and pineapples fading, Hawaii's next big export to the U.S. mainland could be less sweet — 100,000 tons of trash a year.
Dan Uggla doubled home the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, Jorge Cantu homered and the Florida Marlins beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 on Saturday night.
The floodwaters are gone, but in front of thousands of homes and in much of downtown a new eyesore has taken their place: trash.
A trash hauler who was at the center of a sweeping federal investigation of mob influence in the industry pleaded guilty Tuesday and agreed to surrender dozens of businesses worth more than $100 million.
Remembering a forecast of rain, Wesley Falker decided to dump his grass clippings in a yard waste bin rather than leave them until morning.
Our surroundings or environment was given by God not only for our own use but also for the next generation or those who will exist next to us.
Child Found Dead In Trash; Two Other Children Hospitalized After Being Home Alone For Two Days An Escambia County woman is charged with leaving her three young children home alone for two days with nothing to eat except six cups of Jello. One child, an 18-month old girl, was found dead in a trashcan at the woman's home.
Body buried under 8 feet of trash in home JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - City officials have condemned the home where a 71-year-old woman was found dead in garbage piled 8 feet deep.
Fox 'Keen On' Lou Dobbs - The Daily BeastAn interesting tidbit from The New York Times article about the Obama administration's escalating war with Fox News: Fox Business is courting CNN firebrand Lou Dobbs, who had lunch with Fox's chairman, Roger Ailes, last month.
America Is a Toxic Dump (country of wasteful ways)we have become such a disposable society that we are one of the top garbage producers in the world, dumping an estimated 254 million tons a year, less than a third of which is recycled. That's enough rubbish to fill more than 82,000 football fields packed six feet deep.
Female reveller is freed from a 60ft builder's rubbish chute A DOPEY reveller had to be rescued by fire crews after throwing herself down a 60ft builder's rubbish chute - and getting stuck halfway.
{Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to SF Bay 100-mile weekend relay swim} Swimmers brave dirty Delta for awareness Seven swimmers swimming, Sacramento to San Francisco.
Kansas couple's trash bin tryst takes wrong turnA tender moment in a trash bin went all wrong for a couple who found themselves being held up at pocket knifepoint.
Green bike shop owner is fined by council...for not producing any rubbishWith its emphasis on re-using old materials or selling them as scrap, Mark Howard's bicycle shop is a model of environmental efficiency. So you might have imagined that his local council would be grateful to him for enhancing the area's green credentials.
Grandmother loses life savings 'after throwing £12,000 out with rubbish' An elderly woman has lost her life savings after accidentally throwing away £12,000 into her wheelie bin, which then ended up being buried in landfill in West Sussex.
Anyone want a few surprises in their email box? Sometime last night or late yesterday evening, my email fell into the hands of quite a few females who spend their time posing for naughty pics and posting them online, and, from what I gather, marketing them.
Favorite Fame-Whores: Levi Johnston Talks Smack About Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Levi Johnston continues his campaign of admirable restraint; this month, he's talking to Vanity Fair about Bristol's pregnancy and the Palins' parenting skills. Highlights — and a video exploration of Johnston's "johnson" (sorry, it's SFW) — after the jump.
Families charged £500 for leaving wheelie bins out on wrong dayFamilies could face fines of more than £500 for breaking wheelie bin rules. Draconian new town hall tactics mean every adult in a household is hit with a £110 fine, rather than just one.
Man allegedly bites off love rival's ear lobe - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsTalk about a three some gone bad. Americans trash.
China's Trash Incinerators Loom as Global Pollution HazardAfter surpassing the United States as the world's largest producer of household garbage, China has embarked on a vast program to build incinerators as landfills run out of space.
Hearts go out to puppy dragged by carLOCKPORT — Linda Tilton still could smell the burning skin Monday on the cocker spaniel that had been dragged by its leash behind a car over the weekend.
The World's Rubbish Dump: A Garbage Tip that Stretches from Hawaii to JapanA "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris - in effect the world's largest rubbish dump - is held in place by sw …
Good News Wednesday: WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bagsGetting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose.
What did you send to the landfill this week? Did you know that there are literally millions and millions of pounds of product in our landfills that are not even actually trash? Yes, really.
Judge's anger after couple who tidied up garden thrown into riot van for attempted burglaryA judge has blasted a waste of taxpayers' money after a couple who picked up items of rubbish from the garden of an abandoned house were thrown into a riot van for attempted burglary.
AIG Seeks to Give $250M More in Bonuses - Political News - FOXNews.comAIG is at it again. Bonuses for the people who made this company fail yet revived with tax payers money.
Sarah Palin's surprise resignation announcement is the top story in the political media this 4th of July and while the media is giving the story a fairly straight treatment the question on every experienced political reporter's mind is this: "What is she hiding?"
Binmen refused to collect bin three inches out of position Binmen refused to collect a wheelie bin because a homeowner claims he left it three inches out of its required position.
Homeless man crushed after sleeping in wheelie bin A homeless man who fell asleep in a large wheelie bin has survived being crushed to the size of a cardboard box after it was emptied into the jaws of a hydraulic rubbish truck.
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