Waste Not.....Want Not

Hold the cheese. 

Thieves made off with a refrigerated tractor-trailer filled with $85,000 worth of shredded mozzarella cheese bound for a Hungry Howies Pizza distribution center in central Florida.

The driver and his girlfriend left the trailer at a truck stop while having a mechanic check the truck.

The missing trailer has white mud flaps with "Hudsonville Trailer Sales" on them. It also has a Michigan license plate. The trailer is valued at $62,000.

Police in Ohio said they arrested a man who called 911 to accuse his wife of stealing his stash of cocaine.

Stark County Jail records show Robert Daniel Collins, 39, of Alliance, called 911 Wednesday night and accused his wife of theft.

"[He] called 911 because he claimed that his wife stole his cocaine," jail records state.

Police arrived and found Collins, who was wanted on an active warrant for failing to pay fines on a previous case, in possession of a glass pipe he identified as being for smoking marijuana.

Collins was taken to the Stark County Jail on misdemeanor charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and misuse of 911. He could face up to 60 days in jail and $500 in fines if convicted on the charges.

The Alliance Municipal Court docket shows Collins failed to pay a $25 fine and $589 in costs from a previous speeding and driving under suspension case.

Police did not say whether the allegedly stolen cocaine was recovered.

Authorities say a man who allegedly stole a woman's car during their first date last month has been captured.

Waterford Township police say 53-year-old Gerald Tietz was arrested Saturday after the vehicle — which had the vanity plate "JSRYGRL" — was spotted in Cherry Hill.

Tietz and the woman, identified only as a New Jersey resident, became acquainted online and decide to meet. Tietz allegedly told the woman his name was Gennaro Aladena and that he went by the nickname "Gooch."

At some point that evening, police say Tietz got the woman's car keys and took her vehicle.

A telephone number for Tietz could not be located.

Police say a man and woman have stolen more than $9,000 worth of women's undergarments from a department store in Wyoming's capital of Cheyenne.

Officer Dan Long, a Cheyenne police spokesman, says the shoplifters made off with just over 1,000 pairs of panties from the J.C. Penney store in a local mall.

Video surveillance shows the two leaving the store with a large plastic bag.

Long says store employees did not notice the theft until several minutes after it happened and the pair got away before police arrived.

Police estimate roughly 800 pairs of Ambrielle brand underwear and 200 pairs of Flirtitude brand garments were taken.

Florida detectives are investigating the case of a man who drove to his lawyer's office with a dead body in the bed of his pickup truck.

John Marshall, 52, said he shot his neighbor in self-defense during a scuffle involving a gun, Robert Harris, his attorney said.

The lawyer reported the death of 65-year-old Theodore Hubbell, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, which said it had not made any arrests.

The men were neighbors in Bokeelia, a community of about 2,000 people on Pine Island in southwest Florida, according to sheriff's spokesman Tony Schall.

Marshall was taken to the hospital with facial wounds and possibly broken thumbs.

Harris said that Marshall had called him days earlier saying he feared for his safety. It was not clear why the men were fighting, but their dispute appeared to center around a property concern.

A New Jersey appellate court says a man cannot seek damages for burns he suffered while bowing his head in prayer over a sizzling steak fajita skillet at a restaurant.

The ruling made public Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed his lawsuit. The man claimed a waitress didn't warn him the dish was hot, but the lower court found the food posed an "open and obvious" danger.

It happened in 2010 at an Applebee's in Burlington County.

The man said he bowed his head, then heard a loud sizzle followed by a grease pop. He then felt a burning sensation in his left eye and on his face.

The man said he panicked and knocked the food on his lap, causing more burns. 

The burns didn't cause scarring.

A "pee power" toilet being tested at a British university converts urine into electricity and could bring light to refugee camps, the creators said.

Researchers at the University of the West of England in Bristol teamed with international charity Oxfam to pilot the "pee power" project with a urinal installed near the school's Student Union Bar.

Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, project leader and director of the university's Bristol BioEnergy Center, said the urinal uses microbial fuel cell stacks to convert the urine into electricity that powers the restroom's electric lights.

"We have already proved that this way of generating electricity works. Work by the Bristol BioEnergy Center hit the headlines in 2013 when the team demonstrated that electricity generated by microbial fuel cell stacks could power a mobile phone. This exciting project with Oxfam could have a huge impact in refugee camps," Ieropoulos said.

"The microbial fuel cells work by employing live microbes which feed on urine [fuel] for their own growth and maintenance. The MFC is in effect a system which taps a portion of that biochemical energy used for microbial growth, and converts that directly into electricity - what we are calling urine-tricity or pee power. This technology is about as green as it gets, as we do not need to utilize fossil fuels and we are effectively using a waste product that will be in plentiful supply."

Andy Bastable, head of water and sanitation at Oxfam, said the toilets could prove beneficial in refugee camps where there is no electricity.

"Oxfam is an expert at providing sanitation in disaster zones, and it is always a challenge to light inaccessible areas far from a power supply. This technology is a huge step forward. Living in a refugee camp is hard enough without the added threat of being assaulted in dark places at night. The potential of this invention is huge," he said.