With a fox locked onto her arm, an Arizona jogger ran a mile to her car, where she was able to dislodge the animal, throw it into the trunk and drive to a Prescott hospital. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said the fox, which later attacked an animal control officer, tested positive for rabies.

The unidentified Chino Valley resident told deputies she was on a trail Monday at the base of Granite Mountain when the fox attacked, biting her foot. The woman said she grabbed it by the neck when it went for her leg and it latched onto her arm.

Thinking the fox was rabid, she wanted to make sure it didn’t get away so she ran to her car, where she was able to pry open its jaws, wrap it in a sweat shirt and toss it into the trunk.

The woman is receiving rabies vaccinations, as is the animal control officer.

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From Business Week: “Britney Spears no longer wants him as her husband and audiences have been cool to his attempt at a rap music career, but Kevin Federline has Nationwide on his side.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., known for its “On Your Side” slogan, plans to run a national ad during the Super Bowl, and K-Fed has been tapped to star, the Columbus-based company announced Wednesday.

The 30-second spot airing during the third quarter of the Feb. 4 game will be the latest installment in Nationwide’s “Life Comes at You Fast” ad campaign. Previous celebrity ads in the series have featured male model Fabio and rapper M.C. Hammer.

In the new commercial, Federline, 28, goes from starring in a rap video surrounded by beauties and bling to working at a fast-food joint.

His debut rap album, “Playing With Fire,” sold a dismal 6,500 copies in its first week of release last fall.”

Seriously, KFed has a lot of kids to feed. Even though this commercial mocks KFed to the maximum, he’s still doing it. Why? Because he a winner. He might be thinking, “Hey a lot of people will see me in the commercial and it could pump up my weakhouse CD sales.” Unfortunately for KFed, no one will buy your CD after seeing you working fast food.

The New York Daily News reported yesterday that Britney Spears was turned down by the NFL Network when she approached them about appearing in a Super Bowl ad.

Keynan McGuire, and Josh Bryant, right wearing the Napoleon shirt, both 11, were two of the children who found an alligator.

Some birthdays stand out as exceptionally memorable; 16 and 21 usually make the list.

Josh Bryant will never forget his 11th birthday, when he came nose to snout with a 5-foot alligator in Kalispell.

On Monday afternoon, Josh and his mother, Lynn, were trying out the new fishing pole she’d given him for his birthday. The Shady Lane fishing pond near the old Steel Bridge, where he spends three or four days a week during the summer, seemed the perfect place to test the rod.

It was about 4 p.m. when Lynn Bryant spotted something swimming toward them. “I thought it was a muskrat,” she said. Then she took a closer look. Muskrats didn’t swim with just their eyes and back ridges sticking out of the water.

A friend grabbed Josh’s pole and tried to hook the gator. He succeeded a few times, but each time the alligator simply swallowed the lure.

By this time, onlookers had called friends and soon a crowd of about 50 people had gathered. Some simply watched. Others tried to help subdue the alligator, which was now agitated. “This thing was very aggressive,” Bryant said. “It was snapping at us kids and adults,” Josh added.

Someone brought a bow and shot it. Then the arrow — and the alligator — disappeared for almost an hour. Suspense mounted on the banks of the pond. “It was like a serial killer movie or something, a killer alligator,” Josh said.

The gator didn’t stay down for good, though. When it surfaced, the crowd was ready. “His dad jumped in the water,” Josh said, pointing at his friend, Kaynen McGuire. McGuire, 11, nodded. His father had plunged in the water with a stick, grabbed the alligator by the tail and swung it onto the bank.
Four men held it down and tied its jaws shut with fish stringer, then put it in a canoe and dragged it up to the road. Someone produced a knife and tried to slit the animal’s throat. Still it didn’t die.

A deputy later shot the alligator.

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MADISON, Wis. — Happy birthday, Mom. I’ll see you in court.

An Illinois woman is suing her Wisconsin parents for negligence, claiming a surprise birthday visit to her mother in January 2005 left the woman with a broken ankle after a fall on her parents’ icy driveway.

A federal judge has refused to throw out the lawsuit, setting up a potential mother-daughter courtroom showdown at a trial scheduled for November.

The daughter, Carriel Louah, 25, is brandishing an apology letter from her mom as the smoking gun in her lawsuit seeking damages for medical bills and lost wages.

In the letter, dated months after the fall, Wendi Reichling wrote that she and her husband “should have fixed that damn (gutter) years ago. We have learned we have to take better care of our sidewalks.”

On Jan. 14, 2005, Louah, of Rockford, Ill. traveled to Darlington, Wis. to surprise her mother on her birthday, which she was celebrating at a local tavern. Louah spent the night at the home of her mother and stepfather.

The next morning she slipped on their driveway, breaking her left ankle and injuring her foot and leg, according to court records.

She filed suit earlier this year, arguing that her parents should be held liable for damages for maintaining “an unnatural accumulation of ice” on their driveway. She alleges her parents’ gutter was defective and they should pay her more than $75,000 in damages.

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You remember the Duggars, family of 16. Well a little late here, but unfortunately, Jim Bob was defeated in the Republican Primary on May 23 for Arkansas State Senate #35.

Rep. William C. Pritchard captured 52.8% of the 3822 votes cast. Jim Bob took home 47% of the votes.

Unclear on what Jim Bob’s next polical move is.

GASTONIA, N.C. — Eyebrows are being raised because of a new sign along Highway 74 and a pagan group’s promise to keep the road clean.

The Silvermoon Pagan Wicca Group, through the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program, recently sponsored the stretch of road in Gastonia. At the head of the group is Kym Miller, a self-proclaimed witch who owns the Witch’s Brew Café in Lincolnton.

“We want to be community-minded and active in the area, and we wanted to do something to help keep the area clean,” Miller said Thursday.

But many Gastonia residents have their objections.

“I’m not for it if it’s got anything to do with witchcraft,” resident Mildred Bumgardner said.

Resident Cody Sams said, “They should change the name or something.”

Miller insists that her group does nothing more than cast spells and experiment with herbal magic.

“We don’t worship the devil, we don’t believe in the devil,” she said. “We’re not Satanists.”

Miller said she has been receiving death threats since her café opened last summer, but she hopes the highway adoption can prove to people that her group wants to make a positive impact on the community. She said it also intends to adopt another highway in the near future.

“So that they realize that we’re not evil people doing evil things,” she said.

Bumgardner doesn’t buy it.

“They’re just trying to get into our communities with that type of thing,” she said.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation said it has not received any written complaints about the Silvermoon sign. Officials said it’s unfair to discriminate against any group that wants to adopt a highway.

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Do you remember seeing the video of the DEA agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape’s release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he’s become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip’s distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video’s release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government.

As a result of the clip being distributed on the Internet and TV, the agent has been the “target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments” directed at him in restaurants, grocery stores, and airports.

Paige, who writes that he was “once regarded as one of the best undercover agents, if not the best, in the DEA,” points to the clip’s recent airing on popular television shows and via the Internet as the reason he can no longer work undercover.

He also notes that he is no longer “permitted or able to give educational motivational speeches and presentations.”

More details from Smoking Gun.

WEST HARTFORD — Former NBA player Manute Bol and his wife were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after telling police they shoved each other during an argument at their home on Boulevard.

Bol, 45, told police his wife, Ajok Kuag, 27, threw a phone at him and punched him in the head during a fight Saturday night, according to a police report.

The couple, who have been arrested in previous domestic incidents, went together Sunday to police headquarters to report the incident.

In June 2004, Bol, who is 7 feet 7, suffered serious injuries, including several broken bones and cracked vertebrae, when the cab he was riding in hit a guardrail and rolled over on Route 2.

The driver - who was killed in the crash - was drunk and had a suspended license, police later found.

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The ugliest dog was featured here on Festville a few months back.

Well, Sam died on Friday, November 18 just short of his 15th birthday, said his owner, Susie Lockheed.

At the time of his death, Sam was scheduled to be filmed for a Discovery Channel series on the world’s ugliest species.

Lockheed said she had Sam euthanized after a veterinarian told her Sam’s heart was failing.

Sweet guy dancing in Best Buy

Elvis impersonator, who also delivered pizzas, awarded $600,000 after accident limited his ability to swivel his hips and do karate kicks. Back in 2002, just moments after Tidd delivered a pizza, he was walking across a grassy parkway when he stepped onto an exposed manhole cover. The cover flipped into his knee and he “did the splits” with his left leg dropping about 1 1/2 feet into the underground opening, he said.

And a good works story… Quadriplegic Man and Blind Man Refurbishes Computers For Free. The group keeps donated computers in the only storage space they have, an old van as well as the trunk of Joseph’s wife’s, Elizabeth, car.