Reuters - Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency said.
AP - Ay, ay, ay, ay! Guadalajara finally boasts the world’s biggest mariachi band.
AP - They say they beat it.
AP - Police in Florida say a burglar who made off with a man’s valuables returned to the home later and snatched what he couldn’t carry on his first trip: a 100-pound plasma-screen TV.
AP - Authorities say they’ve taken more than 400 animals, including sheep, goats, ducks and even four endangered turtles, from a filthy central Florida home.
Reuters - The beer bike will ride on in Amsterdam.
AP - In Utah, even if you don’t get arrested for drunk driving you might still have to call your mom from jail ? sort of.
AP - Police in Michigan say a first date went from bad to worse when a Detroit man skipped out on the restaurant bill, then stole his date’s car.
AP - Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited.
AP - A British farmer who paid a new world record price for a sheep says the animal is the finest specimen he has ever seen.