AP - A school bus driver made an unscheduled stop at a liquor store, then allegedly asked a student to help hide her purchases when police stopped her, the district superintendent said. It does not appear the driver had been drinking, Billings Public Schools Superintendent Jack Copps said. No charges had been filed but the driver quit her job this week.
AP - A New York suburban man is accused of lining the end of four residents driveways with roofing nails. Police have received 40 complaints since 2006 that Michael C. Delisio, 60, has been throwing handfuls of nails into victims driveways in Stony Point and Haverstraw.
AP - Jackie the wily pooch is one New Yorker who just couldnt wait until opening day to see the Mets new stadium. The stray dog was spotted sniffing around Citi Field for several days before animal control officers were sent Wednesday to rescue her. She led them on a run through the stadium, which is still under construction.
AP - A Pennsylvania man faces up to 37 years in prison now that hes been convicted of tearing open a neighbors door with a chain saw in a fit of anger over parking.
AP - A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her, although he says hell settle for $1.5 million in compensation.
Reuters - Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets.
Reuters - An Australian outback policeman was pelted with rocks and beer bottles and his stolen patrol car was used to try and run him down, police said Wednesday.
Reuters - Nigeria's anti-corruption police said on Tuesday it had arrested a man who posed as one of its own officials to extort money from members of the public when they tried to report cases of graft.
Reuters - A little-known Brazilian farming town with sugar cane wealth is set to upstage Rio de Janeiro by erecting a statue of Christ that will eclipse its famous equivalent atop Rio's Corcovado mountain.
Reuters - An Australian court has issued a blunt warning about the sexual predators a young driver faces in jail if he does not stop speeding, as authorities struggle to stop teenagers street racing.
Reuters - Green energy company Ecotricity is investigating what mangled a wind turbine in England over the weekend, a spokeswoman for the company said.
Reuters - Less than 36 hours after a dramatic rescue after capsizing in treacherous waters off Cape Horn, French round-the-world yachtsman Jean Le Cam had to be rescued again.
Reuters - A cat wandered onto the set of a live weather forecast by Germany's leading meteorologist Joerg Kachelmann and waved its tail in front of the camera as it rubbed up against his leg.
Reuters - A panda with a record of aggressive behaviour attacked a man who jumped into its enclosure at a Beijing zoo to pick up a toy, local media said on Thursday.
Reuters - Britain's morris dancers, renowned for bells on knees, coloured rags and flower-bedecked hats, are launching a recruitment drive to convince young people that their stick-slapping art form is not a thing of the past.
AP - A 22-year-old Fairbanks man was arrested for allegedly urinating on a bouncer at a bar on Sunday morning. The bouncer at Kodiak Jacks told police that he was trying to remove another man from the bar for causing a disruption.
Reuters - South Korean prosecutors have detained a self-styled financial market prophet who had a large following on the Internet but whose gloomy predictions upset the government battling an economic slump, they said on Thursday.
AP - Sioux Falls police trying to arrest a Lincoln, Neb., woman on shoplifting and drug charges said she faked birth pains. Officers were called to The Empire Mall Monday for a report of a woman stealing a key chain. When they searched the 35-year-old womans purse, they also found pain pills without a prescription.
Reuters - Three Chinese Internet operators have apologised for failing to purge "vulgar" content following a government pledge this week to expose and shut down offending websites.
AP - Police said a feud among neighbors escalated when a Memphis woman lobbed flaming bottles of gasoline onto a neighbors house. The woman was being held on $5,000 bond on a charge of aggravated arson after her arrest Tuesday.
