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Lacey Lafromboise, a fifth-grader at Turtle Mountain Elementary School in Belcourt, earned a trip to the Native American Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M., by proving that her two dogs have more bacteria in their mouths than her two cats.
If you pee, you will pay. That was the message in the Hawaii state House as a bill to outlaw public urination and defecation was passed 33-16. It now goes to the Senate for consideration.
As if facing the whine of the dentist's drill weren't ordeal enough, some Britons now have to stand in line for hours to get their teeth poked, prodded and pulled.
Put this one in the "there-oughta-be-a-law" category. A bill introduced in the Georgia House would require twice as many toilets in women's restrooms as in men's rooms.
The maker of T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" and "Boys are smelly" says business is booming despite — or maybe because of — protests that led some major U.S. retailers to stop selling them.
A Labrador retriever has been found alive on an isolated cove of a Southeast Alaska island more than a month after its owner was given up for dead when his boat sank in rough seas.
Top administrators at Northern Arizona University will meet with the school's publication board to discuss a controversial sex column that appeared in the student newspaper.
Iran has proposed introducing a new jellyfish-like species into the Caspian Sea, to devour gelatinous relatives that are wiping out fish stocks in the inland sea.
A 64-year-old priest pleaded guilty to criminal possession of $50,000 stolen from his Long Island parish — cash police found at his apartment along with a pistol, pornography and Nazi paraphernalia.
Vietnam's largest city has seen a surge in fish bone choking incidents after an outbreak of bird flu made chicken scarce and increased consumption of seafood.
The Great Beaver Plague, as some furious locals call it, began in 1946 with the same good but misguided intentions that have presaged countless other ecological disasters.
Tobacco shop owners in eastern France have banded together to run as candidates in regional elections next month, saying they are more in tune with voters than mainstream political parties.
Between the taco stalls and scratchcard booths that line Mexico City's subway stations, volunteers in bright orange shirts are handing out free books of short stories to entice Mexicans to read more.
The foul ball that couldn't be caught when it counted last October will be obliterated by a special-effects expert on live television to lift the "curse" afflicting the Chicago Cubs and bring some closure to one of the most painful losses in the team's doleful history.
A Cooper's hawk has been flying above the stocked shelves at a suburban Cleveland store for more than a week while feeding on pigeons that live in the rafters.
Britain's Liberal Democrat party accidentally e-mailed its draft election plans to Welsh members of the ruling Labor Party, unwittingly unveiling what would normally be a closely guarded secret.
Pierced and tattooed rockers are in for a mosh-pit civics lesson this year. Nearly 200 bands are lining up to lambaste President Bush and try to register a half-million voters through the Punk Voter coalition.
