NEW YORK - The latest racy billboard hoping to shock people is in SoHo, and it features four partially clothed models in a sexually suggestive situation. The racy “Threesome” ad is an act of a desperate designer who is no longer relevant in the fashion community.   MORE..

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds celebrated in the streets outside Staples Center after the Los Angeles Lakers’ NBA title win Sunday night, with some revelers damaging police cruisers, throwing rocks and bottles at officers and setting bonfires in the street, authorities said. About 25 people were arrested,most part of a rowdy crowd that split off on to surrounding streets after police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly, officer Karen Rayner said. MORE..

Maine - A mother of four young children in Maine was charged Monday with gross sexual assault after British investigators more than 3,000 miles away used the Internet to allegedly catch her in the act of Webcasting a sexual assault of her young child. Julie M. Carr, 30, of Mars Hill, Maine, was arrested at about 11 p.m. Friday.  MORE..

NEW YORK — Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it has re-paid all 1 million customers the gourmet coffee chain inadvertently double-charged on Memorial Day weekend.  A processing computer problem caused the company to bill some credit and debit card customers twice on May 22 and May 23. The error occurred at about 7,800 company-owned stores in the U.S. and Canada.  Starbucks spokeswoman Trina Smith said in a statement that once the company learned of the error, it began crediting any card with a duplicate charge.  MORE..

BOSTON – A real estate agent says a resident of Boston’s upscale Back Bay section plunked down $300,000 to own what is believed to be the priciest parking space in the city’s history. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage agent Debra Sordillo told The Boston Globe that several residents of a building on Commonwealth Ave. bid for the coveted space, driving up what had been the original asking price of $250,000.  MORE..

NEW YORK– A New York man says a complete stranger he met online is set to donate a kidney to him and give him a new lease on life. Anthony Cottman of New York’s Brooklyn borough said Pittsburgh resident Nancy Murrell is a “special person” for agreeing to donate her kidney to a stranger is in desperate need for one, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.  MORE..

BOCA RATON - Two juveniles may have learned a valuable lesson Tuesday night: After committing a burglary, don’t text incriminating messages to your accomplice because police might be interrogating him at the time. That lesson landed the two boys in jail on burglary charges, according to a police report. The youth’s names were not released.  MORE..

Woodinville - A diner at a gourmet Woodinville restaurant has filed suit against the business, claiming she was attacked there by a potbellied pig.
According to the complaint, the woman and her husband were taking a break between courses at the Herbfarm Restaurant when they wandered to the establishment’s pigpen. Equipped with a restaurant-issued pan of pig food, the couple was hoping to feed the animals.  MORE..

Kentwood, Mich.–Police in Michigan say a man who held up a gas station left behind a major clue _ a piece of paper bearing a name and address. Police said they went to the address and arrested a 42-year-old suspect. The holdup took place Tuesday at a Speedway station in the Grand Rapids suburb of Kentwood. Police told The Grand Rapids Press the robber told the station clerk he had a gun.  MORE..

HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. — Authorities say a Lake County woman was attacked by a pit bull while she was taking a shower. The sheriff’s office reports that 73-year-old Joan Brown Benitez was rushed to a nearby hospital with cuts and punctures on her arms and legs after Friday’s attack. Benitez was at a neighbor’s home using the shower when several dogs entered the home through a doggie door. The dog’s owner, James Rhew, told a deputy that the attacking dog, an 18-month-old male, was not familiar with Benitez.  MORE..

MADRID (AP) - A Spanish trade union is suing a bakery that allegedly threw the severed arm of an employee into a bin after it was amputated in an accident with a kneading machine. The Workers Commissions said in a statement Wednesday that Bolivian immigrant Franns Rilles lost his left arm in May 28 at the Rovira bakery in the eastern Valencia region. The union said that while Rilles was being taken to a hospital someone tossed his arm into the garbage.  MORE..

WASHINGTON — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department has long maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges. The Poker Players Alliance told The Associated Press that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York instructed three banks to freeze the accounts.   MORE..

Loudoun County - More than 700 cyclists were on the roads of Loudoun County over the weekend, some pedaling up to 150 miles, trying to raise money for a debilitating disease, multiple sclerosis.
But as they made their way Sunday in the untimed event, several rolled into an obstacle few foresaw: the long arm of the law.  MORE..

Georgia - The last thing 11-year-old Ewelina Bledniak of Cummings, Ga., had in mind for her summer vacation was a deportation fight.
But Hubert and Agnes Bledniak’s daughter, who has been in the U.S. since she was 2 years old, faces getting thrown out of America if she doesn’t “voluntarily leave” the country by July 23.  MORE..

ST. LOUIS – It’s an international mystery: How did a Missouri family’s Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family and friends, and was posted on her blog and a few social networking sites. The photo showed her and her husband Jeff holding their two young children.   MORE..

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — A rookie police officer was suspended for seven days for running over a woman sunbathing on a north Florida beach. An internal affairs investigation released Wednesday by the Jacksonville Beach Police Department concluded that Officer Lewis Keller was negligent and at fault for the May 1 accident. Keller was making a U-turn in his sport utility vehicle when he rolled over 41-year-old Anne Marie Giffin of Jacksonville.  MORE..

PANAMA CITY, Fla.– Authorities in Florida said a man who blew .228 on a Breathalyzer told a deputy that his car “did not know what it was doing.” The Bay County Sheriff’s deputy wrote in a report of the incident the man was seen driving at high speeds at about 2 a.m. Sunday and made a U-turn through a median after the deputy began pursuing, the Panama City (Fla.) News Herald reported Wednesday.  MORE..

SALT LAKE CITY, June 9 (UPI) — Police in Salt Lake City said a teenager accused of misdemeanor criminal mischief allegedly caused more than $900 damage to a car by throwing a single penny. Investigators said the 18-year-old, whose name was not released, threw the penny at a car to get the attention of the occupants March 5, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday.   MORE..

FLOWER MOUND, Texas - A 10-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with assault after she and her older sister got into a fight.
Reagan Green was taken into custody Saturday after the fight with 13-year-old Desiree Green.  Someone witnessed the fight at a Flower Mound park and contacted police, Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW reported.  MORE..

MONROE, Washington - A Washington state appeals judge tossed a woman’s claim that honking her horn for prolonged intervals in front of a neighbor’s house is protected free speech. The case began in 2006, when Helen Immelt, 52, received a letter from her neighborhood homeowners association in Monroe saying the chickens she had been keeping in her yard violated covenants.  MORE..

CALGARY - Calgary police have arrested 14 people and netted 80 kilograms of cocaine - worth about $8 million in street value - in what officials are calling the biggest cocaine bust in the province’s history. Police say the investigation has been ongoing for more than a year on a group that was regularly shipping cocaine from B.C. into Alberta.  MORE..

Arkansas - A telephone prankster posing as a sprinkler company employee caused havoc Saturday morning at an Arkansas Holiday Inn when he convinced an employee to set off the hotel’s fire alarm, smash windows, shut down electricity, and break a sprinkler head that flooded the building lobby.  MORE..

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Police said a 17-year-old girl who was practicing how to drive broke her mother’s legs after stepping on the gas pedal instead of the brake. Sgt. Thomas Long told the Republican newspaper that the mother was sitting on a fence when she was struck Saturday morning at a movie theater parking lot. The woman was taken to Baystate Medical Center for treatment.  MORE..

Iowa - Polk County residents with minor arrest warrants can avoid the hassle and save sheriff’s department officials a lot of trouble today. All they have to is arrest themselves. The department’s second “Self-Arrest Program” allows people wanted for nonviolent offenses to show up at the courthouse, sign a few papers, and take care of the problem.  A similar effort in March netted 12 people on misdemeanor charges such as traffic violations.  MORE..

MANATEE COUNTY - A 19-year-old Manatee County man was arrested Friday after he was found in a cow pasture collecting psychedelic mushrooms while carrying a crossbow, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said. Jeffery Moore and three others were spotted by a Manatee County Sheriff’s helicopter in a cow pasture in the 2400 block of 38th Avenue East. MORE..

ROCHDALE, England — The British Ministry of Justice is warning the country’s prisons that prisoners have taken to using a 16th-century slang to hide talk about drug deals. The 500-year-old dialect, which is known as thieves’ cant or rogues’ cant, was believed to have been developed by medieval gypsies and adopted by a handful of scoundrels across England.   MORE..

KUALA LUMPUR- - British Airways Plc Chief Executive Willie Walsh is showing solidarity with his staff in planning to work without pay next month as part of cost cuts, but the move may not have gone down so well with his wife. “She read about it in the papers,” a grinning Walsh told Reuters at a lunch for airline executives gathering in the Malaysian capital.  MORE..

GROVELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman’s barking dog saved her from a fire at her home. Lillian Miller, 58, thought her Chihuahua mix Spaz just needed to go outside when he started barking around 3 a.m. Saturday. She took him out, but when she returned to her mobile home in Groveland she saw flames coming from her living room window.   MORE..

BOSTON — A high school football coach and another man killed a cocaine dealer to avoid paying a debt, dismembered his body and cooked the remains at a concrete business, prosecutors said Monday. Daniel Bradley, 47, of Westwood, and Paul Moccia, 48, of Dedham, pleaded not guilty Monday in Wrentham District Court to murder charges in the death of Angel Antonio Ramirez, a construction worker from Guatemala who lived in Framingham.  MORE..

SALISBURY, England, June 8 (UPI) — A British 9-year-old said he discovered a seven-leaf clover while hunting for the four-leaf variety with his father in a nature reserve. Alastair Barnes said he was walking in the Coombe Bassett nature reserve, near Salisbury, England, when he came upon the seven-leaf clover, a variety experts said are even more rare than the traditionally lucky four-leaf clovers, the Daily Mail reported Monday.  MORE..

NEW DELHI, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - A chicken in northern India has laid a giant egg weighing 162 grams, setting the national record, the Press Trust of India has reported. A farm owner in the Indian state of Punjab told the news agency that the record holder is an unnamed 10-month-old Lohmann brown chicken who weighs 1.25 kilograms.  MORE..

A nudist couple living in north Boulder is complaining about discrimination after being asked by their landlord to “dress appropriately” when outside of their unit. Neighbors complained to police last weekend after they saw Catharine Pierce, 51, and Robert Pierce, 58, gardening outside their Cherry Avenue rental home nearly naked. Catharine Pierce was wearing pasties, and both wore thongs.  MORE..

WEST HAZLETON – Police say a man they arrested in a traffic stop told them he was speeding because he was chasing someone who stole marijuana from him. While borough police were conducting “Buckle Up” – a special grant program to target drivers not using seat belts late Friday night, they stopped a vehicle they said was driving at an extremely high rate of speed and switching lanes without using turn signals.   MORE..

SEATTLE - Services were moved to the parking lot of a Rainier Beach church after a naked man smashed through a window Saturday, spattering HIV-positive blood inside and leaving a trail of destruction through the house of worship. Officials believe the 46-year-old suspect was high on PCP during his unholy rampage through the Unity Church of God in Christ - and now the church interior is considered a bio-hazard because of the tainted blood inside.  MORE..

Wisconsin - It was no honey pot like in Winnie the Pooh but a bear cub in Wisconsin was spotted with a bird feeder stuck on its head.
A landowner in the northwestern part of the state told the state Department of Natural Resources about the cub over Memorial Day weekend. But the mother was so protective that DNR officers couldn’t get near the cub, who was still able to climb a tree.  MORE..

MARIETTA, Ga. — A small plane with two people on board has made an emergency landing on a highway in the northern Atlanta suburbs. Authorities say the Italian-made Sky Arrow plane was headed for the Cobb County Airport at 11:20 a.m. when the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit and engine failure. Sgt. Dana Pierce with the Cobb County police says the pilot landed on U.S. Highway 41 and then taxied the plane into a nearby subdivision.  MORE..

A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down “wandering” seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. “The technology will provide the location of the individual wearing the shoes within 9m (30 feet), anywhere on the planet,” said Andrew Carle, an assistant professor at George Mason University who served as an advisor on the project.  MORE..

SUGARCREEK TWP., Greene County — More than 10 people have reported during the past week being harassed by a man in a woman’s bathing suit, including some children, police said Sunday, June 7.  Sgt. Mark White said the man appears to have “a fetish, if you will,” and wears a green or blue one-piece suit.   MORE..