CLACKAMAS, Ore. — A deliveryman in Oregon who heard a woman’s screams for help had his wife call 911, but when a deputy showed up it turned out the screamer was a parrot, not a woman.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tuesday that when Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy Hayden Sanders showed up, all he found was Diego the Parrot.
The green-and-yellow bird was in good health and no humans were involved.
The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah had been opened the day before by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
American gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton faces a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence following her arrest in her West Virginia hometown.
Tuesday marks the last day to book a flight on Southwest Airlines without being hit with a fee to check bags.
Israel aims to take control of 75 percent of the Gaza Strip and move its 2 million inhabitants into three designated areas as part of a new military offensive in the coastal strip.
Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman’s paradise of northern Louisiana into a big business and conservative cultural phenomenon, died Sunday, according to his family.
Former Green Beret Harold Wheeler, president of Las Vegas Chapter 51 of the Special Forces Association, led a crowd of more than a hundred people in honor of fallen veterans.
Israel is pursuing a new U.S.-backed plan to control all aid to Gaza, which the United Nations has rejected.
Two American Red Cross of Southern Nevada volunteers deployed to Kentucky and Missouri to help with relief efforts after “catastrophic storms and tornadoes” hit the area last week.
A group tasked with making a plan to remove weapons held by Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugees camps met for the first time Friday to begin hashing out a timetable and mechanism for disarming the groups.
Residents of southern Lebanon voted Saturday in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for the Hezbollah terrorist group in the predominantly Shiite areas, months after the end of the Israel-Hezbollah war.
