Trenton’s “Police Officer of the Year” is in hot water after blasting his own department at the award ceremony.
Sgt. Jason Astbury reportedly ripped the Trenton PD for arresting another officer for a bar fight earlier in the year.
Now Astbury is being probed by Internal Affairs for criticizing an ongoing investigation.
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Uncle Sam isn’t the only one looking for a few good men. So is some guy in LA.
Yupeng Deng, 51, has been busted for allegedly creating his own fake US Army unit and getting unwitting Chinese immigrants to enlist with the promise that such service would lead to citizenship.
Deng charged the 100 men $450 apiece, gave them uniforms and had them do drills near his suburban home, authorities said.
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A wombat in Australia has been diagnosed with clinical depression.
Tonka the wombat is moping around the Billabong Animal Sanctuary because he misses all the people who used to visit his pen, but who stopped coming in the wake of a massive cyclone.
The morose marsupial has been so blue, he’s lost 20 percent of his body weight.
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Got milk? It can save your life in a fire.
Two men who were trapped in a burning car in Ireland were spared when a passing milkman extinguished the blaze.
He connected a hose to his tank of milk and sprayed the cow juice to save the men.
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Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquezto are the last two men in the world who speak the Ayapaneco language — but they hate each other so much, they aren’t on speaking terms.
It’s not clear why the two elderly Mexican men are on the outs, but it looks as if the language might die with them.
Although Segovia has tried to hold classes in Ayapaneco for young people, no one has shown up.