The mayor of Las Vegas has signed a $100,000 sponsorship deal to drink gin.
Mayor Oscar Goodman – who has often publicly boasted about his drinking – has signed a deal to endorse Bombay Sapphire gin.
“I hope this gets the message out that Las Vegas is a fun place,” he said. “We’re very unconventional.”
Goodman said he plans to donate his earnings to charity.
Goodman regularly hosts informal meetings, known as “Martinis with the Mayor,” with constituents.
A police station in India staffed by only female officers is being overwhelmed by men who complain they are being mistreated by their wives.
Cops have had to turn away men who have lined up outside the building to lodge complaints about their wives.
Most of the men say they are being forced to do household chores.
The station, which opened in 1994, was originally intended as a place for women seeking refuge from abusive husbands.
Thieves in Pomona, Calif., stole $55,000 worth of giant custom-designed props from the movie set of the Dr. Seuss classic, “The Cat in the Hat.”
Among the items taken was an 8-foot-long pair of dark blue glasses, a yellow 4-foot-long door key, a 4-foot golf tee and a blue golf ball seven feet in diameter and weighing more than 200 pounds.
“We have ruled out the Grinch,” Sgt. Rod Baker said.
The stolen items were in a fenced lot near the set of “The Cat in the Hat,” which is set to begin filming next week.
Two zookeepers in a northwest German town have been suspended and put under police probe for allegedly eating the zoo’s animals, police said.
A police spokesman in the town of Recklinghausen, just north of Cologne, said the keepers in a section of the zoo popular with small children had slaughtered and barbecued five Tibetan mountain chickens and two Cameroonian sheep.
“The animals were in the zoo where all the children would go to stroke them,” the spokesman said.