Police go crazy for those sharp-dressed crooks

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- Police can't classify a break-in at Beau's Tuxedos as a white-collar crime: the thieves took only tux jackets. Burglars broke into two vans in the store's parking lot early Wednesday and stole 186 black tuxedo jackets, police spokesman Sgt. Jarrard Copeland said Thursday. No shirts or any other items were taken. Copeland said it was unclear what inspired the theft, but he hoped the thieves were conspicuous. "Somebody has them [the tuxes] and somebody is trying to get rid of them," he said. "We hope somebody drops a dime." The jackets are valued at $26,040.

Bad luck hits teammates sharing haunted house

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Five cricketers sharing an allegedly haunted house in the southern city of Dunedin have been hit by a series of injuries since taking up residence in the former home for the terminally ill. Otago players Greg Todd, Aaron Redmond, James McMillan, Neil Broom and Jonathan Trott were hurt within a two-week period after moving in to the former hospice, now converted into a five-bedroom town house. They are the only ones living there, and no one else on the team has since been injured. Todd dislocated his knee and broke his leg, Redmond dislocated his knee taking a catch, and McMillan, Broom and Trott suffered serious muscle strains. Todd believes the rash of injuries is connected to the house and its history. "I don't think we'll be living in the same flat next year," he said. "It's all a bit spooky." Trott said the roommates often found furniture and other items moved during the night.

X-rated fortune cookies top off fund-raiser

NEW YORK -- There is great embarrassment in your future. A box of X-rated fortune cookies was mistakenly delivered to a fundraiser hosted by a Brooklyn politician. The 350 cookies stuffed with "the most graphically lurid" fortunes got mixed up with a batch of 1,750 cookies ordered for the Chinese New Year event, Borough President Marty Markowitz said Friday. Some guests "were stunned, to say the least." The annual event -- to raise money to send poor children to summer camp -- was attended by some 700 guests Tuesday evening. "I'm sure they were meant for a raunchy bachelor party," Markowitz said. "They were not cutesy. Triple X to say the least." He said his office had given the restaurant 10 slogans about Brooklyn to insert into the fortune cookies, and 1,400 were delivered correctly. They contained such G-rated boosterisms as: "Brooklyn -- The 10th Planet," "Brooklyn -- it's more than a freakin' tree," and "Brooklyn -- it's like an everything bagel."

Naked mans slips through gate onto U.N. property

NEW YORK -- A naked man ran onto the high-security grounds of the United Nations on Friday while a gate was being opened to allow a car to enter, police said. The man was running north on First Avenue at 11:07 a.m. when he slipped through the open gate near 42nd Street, said a police spokesman, Detective Kenneth Czartoryski. The man was stopped by U.N. security guards and held until police arrived. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, said Czartoryski. The man identified himself to police and said he was 32 years old. But because he carried no ID, police could not immediately verify his name.

-- From wire reports