Weird BUT true
Dress to impress — or else.
Kentucky will enforce a new dress code for thousands of state workers: No flip-flops or exposed bellies while on the job.
Now, 31,000 executivebranch employees could be disciplined or even fired for violating the policy set by Gov. Matt Bevin.
A 91-year-old woman in Tacoma, Wash., is still operating.
Florence Rigney is America’s oldest working nurse, putting in two days a week at Tacoma General Hospital’s operating room.
Rigney tried retiring at age 65 but that lasted just six months. She recently told People magazine, “I am a hard worker, I don’t like to sit and do nothing.”
A Texas lawmaker is injecting some humor into politics in a campaign season filled with insults.
Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty, a Republican, cut an ad featuring his wife begging voters to back him — because she really, really wants him out of the house.
“Gerald doesn’t have any hobbies,” wife Charlyn Daugherty said. “Please reelect Gerald . . . please!”
This crook’s mug shot won’t be as cute.
The FBI is looking for a Oklahoma bank robber who pulled a heist while wearing a T-shirt depicting a cat posing for a mug shot.
The cat-loving thief knocked off BancFirst bank in Norman on Monday, handing the teller a note demanding cash before scampering out, authorities said.
A football game in Rhode Island was literally men vs. boys.
The Capital City Buccaneers canceled their season after they were caught using an 18-year-old ringer for several plays against the other team of 13- and 14-year-olds.
“As soon as we noticed it, we took that person out and . . . fired the coach,” said the team’s founder, Alexandra Diaz. “I’m so disgusted with what happened.”